1 Corinthians: “How Are The Dead Raised?”

Our physical bodies die when our spirits leave them and start the long, terrible process of decomposition and decay (James 2:26a; Eccl. 3:20; 12:7; Job 34:15).  Yet on the wonderful and terrible day that Christ comes again, the physical body that had perished due to its weakness and likely had long since decayed to dust, that body that had no honor inherently within it when it was buried, will be resurrected as something – someone – who is quite different from what he or she used to be, yet still the same person (cf. 1 Thess. 4:13-18).… Read More 1 Corinthians: “How Are The Dead Raised?”

1 Corinthians: “Bad Company Ruins Good Morals”

If there is no resurrection of the dead at the end of time, then it follows that there would be no eternal reward of heaven or eternal punishment of hell.  That being the case, then this life would be all that there is…so why not go ahead and do whatever you want while you can, before death takes you? Recognizing the spiritual danger within this line of thinking, Paul exhorts the church at Corinth to “not be deceived” and to remember that those among them who were promoting this sinful worldview were indeed “bad company” who would certain “ruin” their “good morals.”… Read More 1 Corinthians: “Bad Company Ruins Good Morals”

1 Corinthians: God Being “All In All” and the Subjection of the Son

The ideal of which Paul spoke to Ephesus which also touches on God’s sovereignty (Ps. 115:3; 135:6; Is. 46:9-10; Job 42:2) and omnipresence (Ps. 139:1ff; Heb. 4:13) will be fully realized and seen by all of his creation once the sin of which God have no part (Is. 59:2) is completely destroyed (15:25-26).… Read More 1 Corinthians: God Being “All In All” and the Subjection of the Son

1 Corinthians: “Then Comes The End…”

He had already informed these Christians that “the end of the ages” had come upon them, just as Peter and the writer of Hebrews had also informed the first century Christians that they were in the last days (10:11; Heb. 1:2; 9:26; Acts 2:17; 1 Pet. 1:20)…thus showing to us in the 21st century A.D. that the last age of earth’s history has been in existence since the beginning of the church two thousand years ago.  So what will happen at “the end” (15:24a) of “the end of the ages” of the history of the world (10:11)?… Read More 1 Corinthians: “Then Comes The End…”