Big Idea:

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In Christ, you have an

unimaginably bright future

1 Corinthians 15:35-49

• Two Analogies:

- Seeds, 36-38

- Bodies, 39-41

• Two Examples:

- “natural bodies” vs. “spiritual bodies”, 42-44

- Adam’s family vs. Christ’s family, 45-49

The Question:

³⁵ But someone will ask, “How are the dead

raised? With what kind of body do they

come?”

~1 Corinthians 15:35

Analogy #1, 36-38

🡪 A seed has to die before new life comes

³⁴ If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

³⁵ For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

~Mark 8:34-35

Analogy #2, 39-41

🡪 There are different kinds of bodies

🡪 Some bodies are more impressive

Contrast #1, 42-44

🡪 “natural bodies”

vs.

🡪 “spiritual bodies”

Home. That is our inconsolable secret, isn’t it? That piercing sweetness, that desire for what has never actually appeared in our experience, yet somehow we know it is where we truly belong…our homesickness for a place we’ve not been, and a sense of alienation in the very places we were born. We don’t belong here, where it’s dark, depraved, and demonic, and where our sweetest experience is the blessed hope we taste in the future promises we trust. We long for home.

~Jon Bloom

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³⁴ According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.

~1 Peter 1:3-4

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Contrast #2, 45-49

🡪 “Adam’s Family”

vs.

🡪 “Christ’s Family”