1. RESURRECTION

2. YOUR GOAL LIVE FOR EVER IN HEAVEN? LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH? REVELATION 21:1-3 HEAVEN COMES DOWN TO EARTH GOD LIVES ON EARTH

3. TWO HUMANITIES 1 CORINTHIANS 15:44-47, 50 BY CREATION AND BIRTH - NATURAL BY RESURRECTION - SPIRITUAL NATURAL = IDEALY SUITED TO LIFE IN THIS WORLD SPIRITUAL = IDEALY SUITED TO LIFE IN THE WORLD TO COME THE NATURAL CANNOT SHARE IN THE FUTURE

4. CHANGE IS IMPERATIVE RESURRECTION MUST EFFECT THE WHOLE PERSON ONLY BY RESURRECTION CAN WE ESCAPE DEATH 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21-22 ALL ADAM’S REALTIVES DIE ALL CHRIST’S RELATIVES LIVE IF CHRIST HAS NOT BEEN RESURRECTED WE HAVE NO HOPE

5. DEATH DEATH = SEPARATION AND CONTROL SPIRIT BODY DEATH DISEMBODIES

6. UNCROSSABLE CHASM

7. JESUS AND DEATH LUKE 23:46 HE YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT TO THE FATHER AND DIED HE CAME UNDER DEATH’S CONTROL LUKE 23:43 HIS BODY WAS PLACED IN A TOMB ACTS 2:24, ROMANS 6:9 HE WENT TO SHEOL THE RESTFUL SECTION OR THE PAINFUL SECTION?

8. RESURRECTION OF JESUS GOD BROKE THE POWER OF DEATH OVER HIM HIS BODY AND HIS PERSON/SPIRIT WERE REUNITED HE [THE WHOLE PERSON] WAS TRANSFORMED AND MADE SPIRITUAL HE WAS MADE THE SOURCE OF LIFE TO OTHERS LIFE = RESURRECTION LIFE = ETERNAL LIFE

9. IMPLICATIONS FOR NOW WE ARE HALFWAY THERE ROMANS 8:10-11 THE SPIRIT/PERSON IS ALIVE, EXPERIENCING RESURRECTION LIFE THE BODY WILL CATCH UP AT THE GREAT RESURRECTION DAY 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-55

10. WHAT HAPPENS TO BELIVERS AT DEATH? SEPARATION TAKES PLACE THE BODY DECOMPOSES THE SPIRIT/PERSON GOES TO BE WITH THE LORD PHILIPPIANS 1:21-23 EPHESIANS 4:8 INDICATES THAT THE “ABRAHAM” PART OF SHEOL IS NOW EMPTY

11. IS RESURRECTION REALLY NECESSARY? DISEMBODIED PERSONS ARE OF LITTLE OR NO USE TO GOD GOD NEEDS US IN OUR BODIES HEBREWS 10:5 CHRIST NEEDED/NEEDS A BODY TO DO THE FATHER’S WILL WE NEED A BODY TO LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH

12. THE BIG PICTURE GEHENNA [LAKE OF FIRE] HELL