The state of your life now is not what it is going to be when the Lord comes again.

He says we're going to be transformed. We are going to be completely transformed.

I have not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

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Now, here's today's Destin for Victory Message, a preview of coming attractions.

As we look in the second part of this chapter, Paul is going to continue to discuss

the matter of the resurrection of the dead, but he shifts his attention from Christ's resurrection

to the resurrection that will take place with all of us who are here on earth.

So I have entitled this part of our study, a preview of coming attractions.

Paul gives us a preview of coming attractions.

And he opens this section by giving us a general rule, a general principle

that he is going to expound through the remainder of the chapter. Here's the rule. Here's the

principle. What you see now is not what you will see later. In essence, what he says is what you

see is not what you will get. But there is

something coming that is far greater than what we can see now. Let's look at the way Paul expounds

this point. Beginning in verse 35, he says, some of you may ask, how are the dead raised with what kind of body will they come how

foolish what you sow does not come to life unless it dies when you sow you do not plant the body that

will be but just a seed perhaps of wheat or of something else. So he begins

this section by saying, look at the law of the harvest, the law of sewing and reaping. He says,

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