We're going into the imperishable world and we're going into the immortal world and what is perishable and what is mortal cannot come there.

That is the great transformation.

It may sound morbid but have you ever thought about what it's going to be like at your funeral?

How will your friends and family feel?

What will they understand about your eternal destination?

Well, if you're a Christian, your funeral can be a time of joy, an opportunity to praise the Lord.

That can happen if your family knows exactly where you have gone and what it's like there.

Points to consider today on Grace to you as John MacArthur continues his series called The End is Not the End.

A biblical look at death and what comes after it.

So follow along now in 1 Corinthians 15 as John begins the lesson.

Skeptics, both ancient and modern, have argued against the truth of resurrection.

Scoffing at the idea that the body which disintegrates in the grave or which is virtually destroyed in a fire or the bottom of the sea or in some other way, could ever rise from the dead.

So Paul writes this chapter, this massively important chapter of 58 verses to help us understand the resurrection.

We've looked at the evidence of the resurrection, we've looked at the importance of the resurrection, we've looked through the sequence of the resurrection, we've looked at the incentives of the resurrection, we've look at the implications of the resurrection and then in our last look we've looked at the very body of resurrection.

And we did that, you remember, starting in verse 36 or so, 39 or so and going down to verse 49.

So we have looked at the resurrection in all these ways. Now when we come to verses 50 to 58, we come to the conclusion of Paul's treatment of the resurrection.

Now there are four lines to follow here. There is first the great transformation, then the great triumph, then the great thanksgiving, and then the great therefore.

That's just a way that we can break it down so that we can access with some level of understanding its wonderful truths.

So let's begin with the great transformation that takes place in resurrection, verse 50.

Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

This is a transitional statement from the prior section. You can't take the perishable inside the imperishable realm of eternity.

Flesh and blood refers to our bodies as now designed for life on this earth. And we know very well what that means.

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