The Resurrection Body (1 Cor. 15:35-58)

[Sung Psalm: 49]

If you believe in the resurrection of the body, then you know that your bodily labors are not in vain – in the Lord.

After all, the resurrection of the body is the proof that in the Lord your labor (your "toil" or "troublesome labor") is not in vain.

What labor qualifies? Anything that you do that is difficult – anything that requires you to cast yourself upon Him! The resurrection guarantees that your bodily labor has a purpose! What is done in the body matters. There are things in life that are hard. Your body decays.

Obviously when you die – but even before that! As you get older, your body takes longer to heal – you start to forget things – this body starts to decay.

Corruption, shame, and weakness – these things characterize “the body” in this life.

But Paul says that because of the resurrection of Jesus, therefore what we do in the body is not in vain....