| Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future” Our Bible verse for today: “Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. For this corruptible body must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body must be clothed with immortality. When this corruptible body is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal body is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, death, is you victory? Where death, is your sting? “ 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Welcome to eternity!” As a result of our extensive study of the important doctrine of salvation, we now know that salvation consists of three parts. It begins with the moment of decision when you open your heart and place your faith in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. It continues with the “working out” of your salvation, as the Apostle Paul wrote about in Philippians 2:12-13. This is the lifelong transformation known as sanctification. The third pard is the consummation of our salvation and it occurs in two stages. The first is when this mortal body dies and we arrive in heaven with the spiritual stature that will be ours for eternity. The consummation is finalized when all believers receive their resurrection bodies. That’s what we are reading about in 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 above. In that passage, Paul reveals some intriguing details about what that day will be like. For those Christians who are still alive on earth when Jesus returns, Paul says those folks will not experience the physical death of their mortal bodies. Instead, they will simply rise to meet Christ in the air and they will instantaneously go from being in their mortal bodies into their resurrection bodies. We also learn in this passage that those who have died and whose mortal bodies turned to dust will now be raised and reunited with their spirit, but in a resurrection body. Somehow, miraculously, the Lord gathers and reclaims all the scattered elements of what had been your mortal body. He then re-forms and raises the body, unites it with your spirit which has been with Him in the intermediate heaven for all this time, and instantly transforms it into a perfected resurrection body that will live for eternity. When Paul writes that the corrupt mortal body must be clothed with incorruptibility and immortality, he’s simply emphasizing the point that the old mortal body just won’t do for life in an eternal paradise. We need that resurrection body so we can fully enjoy what the Lord has in store for us. This is the consummation of our salvation. Our spirit joined with a perfected resurrection body enjoying eternity in a perfect paradise. Welcome to eternity! God bless, Pastor Jim (If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville |
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