So as seeds vary, as earthly bodies, the bodies of animals, the bodies of plants, the bodies of birds, fish,

vary as heavenly bodies vary.

Why do we have a problem thinking God couldn't create resurrection bodies?

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson. When someone dies, you often hear that the person is at peace,

or that he's gone to a better place. Well, I think we all can understand wanting to soften

the harshness of death. But you don't help people. In fact, you do great harm if you avoid talking

about the eternal implications of death. As you'll hear today, death is man's greatest enemy.

The question is, are you prepared for death and what comes after?

Bring those questions to John's study today titled, The End is Not the End.

And with a lesson now, here's John.

Well, let's open our Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, and look at Paul's chapter on resurrection.

The resurrection of believers is the theme of this chapter. The Bible promises a redemption of the

body, not just the spirit, not just the soul, not just the inner person. Romans 8.23 says that we

are waiting for the redemption of our body. In fact, the Apostle Paul made it clear that the

spirit of man without a body is naked. In 2 Corinthians chapter 5, he says, we desire not to be

unclothed, not to be naked, but to have our body from above. A tabernacle, it's called not

made with hands eternal in the heavens. God created man as body and soul or body and spirit,

and will redeem him as body and spirit. We will all dwell with God forever in the heaven of heavens

in resurrection bodies. Jesus said in John 5, 28, the hour is coming when all that are in the graves

shall hear the voice of the Son of man and come forth. This is a very important doctrine,

the resurrection of the believer's body to go with his glorified spirit. It is a cardinal Christian

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