The Resurrection of Jesus is the beginning of something absolutely glorious; the Restoration of the whole Universe!!!

1 Corinthians 15

15:1-11 Lots of Eyewitnesses…Go Talk to Them

15:12-19 No Resurrection of the Dead At All, for Anyone….Seriously

15:20-28 The 1st Domino Drops

15:29-34 I Know It’s True, I Risk My Life Daily

15:35-49 HOW are the Dead Raised?…. WHAT KIND of Body Will They Have??

1. Corruption/ Perishable 1. Incorruption/ Imperishable

2. Dishonor 2. Glory

3. Weakness 3. Power

4. Natural Body 4. Spiritual Body

15:50-57 The Grand, Grand, Grandest Final

15:58 In the Mean Time

2 Corinthians 5:4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

Philippians 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

Philippians 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things.

Sermon Discussion Questions:

• Why was Paul so convinced of the resurrection of Christ?

• How does he try to convince others?

• How are resurrected bodies/persons described?

• Why is it impossible for "flesh and blood" to inherit the Kingdom of God?

• Describe the Grand, Grand Finale? Will you be there?