The world is beautiful especially at this time of year. Things are turning green; flowers are blooming. It’s beautiful, but something is just not right.Not counting all the disasters, crime, and hatred, it just seems like everything is falling apart. Nothing really lasts. We are reminded almost daily at the grocery store. Most everything comes with an expiration date. When you buy electronics, an appliance, or even a car you are asked to buy the extended warranty. We are reminded that things are going to break down.Everything seems to break down. Even we are – we are falling apart. Now when you are young, even into your 30s and 40s, it seems that we are getting better, stronger, faster, smarter. But at some point we realize that we start getting slower, weaker, not quite as mentally sharp.Now aren’t you glad you read this today? But I do have some good news.In 1 Corinthians 15:35-57, Paul is talking about this body of ours, but not just about this body, but a new body we will one day have. Paul has been talking about the resurrection—Christ’s resurrection and our resurrection. So, Paul is going to address a couple questions they must have asked. “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body will they come?” (1 Cor. 15:35).In this passage Paul tells us first, that the resurrection validates our trust. The faith and hope that we have in God is proven by Christ’s resurrection. This is good news.His second point is that Jesus has changed this decaying process that began with Adam. Adam by his sin set the world on a course of corruption. Christ in his resurrection set the world on a course of eternal life. This world of decay and death inaugurated by the first Adam will finally be irrevocably broken by the last Adam—Christ at His second coming.Now his third point is that we shall be changed instantaneously. “We will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed” (1 Cor. 15:51-52). When Christ return’s God’s judgment while happen in an instant. This world will be changed in a “twinkling of an eye.”It is the resurrection of Jesus Christ that gives us this hope! In a flash we will be changed—we will no longer be ...
