The Resurrection of the Body

[Sung Psalm: 49]

What is your hope? Where are you going? Where is your story heading?

I fear that for so many who claim to be Christians, they would conclude their Creed "I look for my bodily happiness, and the life of the present age."

Do you really believe what you say in the Creed each week?

In the Apostles' Creed we confess the "resurrection of the body and the life everlasting" – and in the Nicene Creed we say "I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come."

Think about Paul's conclusion:

"Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain."

Paul seems to think that his whole discussion of the resurrection is eminently practical.

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