Abe’s lessons today were on the resurrection of the dead, through God, by the hands of men from both the old and new testaments. The first lesson was also a primer to illustrate the Power needed for anyone to truly be redeemed.
For true redemption from sin (‘missing the mark’), it would take more than a mere human being to accomplish the task. It is simply not in the hands of mankind to work that sort of power – life over death. But that very Power was demonstrated in both old and new testaments by God’s chosen leaders, and it is that Power that we can take solace in knowing that our obedience to God’s word can save us after life. It is the Power that prevented Christ from seeing corruption after death, and it is Him that is our Guarantor of our own salvation – IF we follow the instructions of the Gospel.
The second lesson followed to show how the soul and spirit and how they differ and are alike. We see how the body is temporal and made from dust for which it returns, but the soul lives on – at a place determined by the life of the follower (or disobedient to) of God.
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NOTES:
Resurrection:
I Thess. 5:23 “whole spirit, soul and body preserved”
Heb 4:12
Physical Life
Gen 1:20,24,2-27; 2:7
Gen. 2:9; 3:23-24
Gen. 3:22-24
Deut. 16:3; Psalm 90:10
Job 7:6; James 4:14
What describes physical life?
Body Mt. 6:25
Soul Gen. 2:7
Means Life Mt. 2:20
Deeper meaning Mt. 10:28
Spirit Job 9:18
Deeper meaning Ps. 31:4-5
Jesus Luke 24 and Romans 8:16
Death I Cor. 15:21-22; Mt. 27:50 Jesus “yielded”, gave up His Spirit to God Act 2:25-27
Part 2
Acts 24:15 both just and unjust resurrected
body – Gen. 25:30; John 11:17-44
soul – Mt. 10:28 cannot be killed
spirit – I Sam. 28:7-9 returns to God
Resurrection – Greek “anastasis” Heb. 11:35
son of widow I Kings 17:17-22
son of shunamite woman 2 Kings 4:32-35
Lazarus John 11:1-44
Jesus Mt. 28:5-8
What is resurrection? Christ answers Luke 20:27-38; I Cor. 15:12-19; I Cor. 15:35-50 a new body
“transform our lowly body into the image of His glorious body Phil. 3:10-11
I Cor. 15:51-58
John 11:25