The Resurrection Changes our Being - 1 Corinthians 15-16

1 Corinthians 15:42-49 (ESV Strong's)
42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

The Resurrection Changes Our Being

So many people think of eternal life in the context of this world.   However, the above passage speaks to a different look for the heavenly realm for believers.  Paul uses the contrast between the “seed” and what the seed “produces” when speaking of the resurrection.   Just as a seed goes into the ground and looks like one thing, the fruit coming out of the ground looks different.   When Christ comes again and raises the dead, who are in Christ, believers in Him, they will be resurrected to a new form of body.  We ought not to think of “this body” but of a different body.  We do know, after Christ’s resurrection, that His disciples did recognize Him.  So, His resurrected body did have some form or likeness to the body that was buried in the tomb.   But, according to Paul, the resurrection will make some change from what is buried in the ground.  The point of what Paul is making is to show us that the power of the resurrection changes the sinful body of mankind.  We are all full of sin.  Because we are justified we have our sins forgiven.  But, our bodies are still racked with sin. What Paul is telling us about the resurrection is that the power of the resurrection will be the final destruction of sin.  We will be raised to new life and not be impacted, harmed, or hampered by sin.   That is the glory of the resurrection.   Just as we were born in the image of the first Adam (with sin), we will be raised in the image of the new Adam (Jesus), with no sin!!! Rejoice in the resurrection!!