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! Introduction
- BC Lions lost 5 games in a row.
o Something had to change.
o something did change.
- Carla has tried to bake bread
o yeast past “best before”
o Something had to change
- getting into heaven?
o cannot possibly get there?
o Something has got to change.
o spend eternity in heaven with a pure, perfect and holy God, something is going to have to change.
o not fit for heaven.
Something has to change.
- I Corinthians 15:50-58.
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I. The Necessity of Change
- verse 50 - “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”
o something that is impossible.
o “nor.”
o things that are not possible, they cannot happen.
o Without a key, you cannot go into a locked room.
o Without authorization you cannot cross an international border.
o Without the things mentioned in this passage it is impossible to enter into heaven.
- Verse 53 à divine necessity.
o “must” appears twice
o Certain things must happen before it is possible for any human being to be with God.
- Why is it impossible?
- Why must these things happen before we can get into heaven?
o we are flesh and blood.
§ subject to death.
§ impossible for us to get into heaven.
§ Heaven is a place for those things that are eternal.
§ Anything that is subject to death cannot be in heaven.
§ no death in heaven
§ as long as we are subject to death, we are subject to something that will not be in heaven.
§ Something has got to change.
§ We need to become creatures of eternity.
o we are perishable.
§ Everything on earth eventually is destroyed.
§ Diamonds
§ 70 years or 80 if we are strong.
§ people are living longer
§ perhaps we would all now be considered middle age.
§ dying is a sentence that God has placed
§ Heaven is a place where nothing dies.
· no perishing,
· no rotting,
· nothing that will disappear in heaven.
· Heaven is an eternal place and in order for us to be in heaven, we need to change so that we too are eternal.
o we are corruptible.
§ similar to perishable,
§ moral overtones
§ Our bodies become corrupted,
§ our lives become corrupted
§ our hearts also become corrupted.
§ In heaven, there is nothing that is corrupted.
§ Nothing changes into something worse.
§ Nothing impure or immoral or unclean is in heaven.
§ something must change.
- I Corinthians 15 is that that change is going to take place.
o Flesh and blood à eternal à no longer be subject to death.
o perishable àimperishable à no longer become broken and destroyed.
o corruptible à incorruptible à no longer tend towards what is worse.
- hope of all who belong to Christ.
- without Christ we have no hope.
- Christ, the perfect Son of God
o came to earth in order to die on the cross
o raised from the dead, as a human being,
o forgiveness
o change the hearts of all who believe in Him
o give them eternal life.
- God has made it possible for us to enter the kingdom of heaven pure, perfect, imperishable, incorruptible and immortal.
- “…the absolute necessity of transformation in order to enter the heavenly mode of existence.”
- hope of change is a wonderful word of encouragement
- all the broken, destroying, perishable things which we accept as normal on this earth will not exist in heaven.
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II.
The Means of Change
- How does that change happen?
- when we die.
- Death is looked at by people on earth as an ending.
o It is an ending.
o end of life on this earth.
o end of relationships
o we remember what was because it is over.
o We say goodbye to the person who has passed away because we will not see them any more on earth.
o We shed tears because we have lost someone we loved.
o an enemy
o a reminder of the corruption and of the fact that we are mortal and perishable.
- But in another sense, death is not an ending,
o the means of change by which we will be able to enter into heaven.
o not death itself that is the means of change,
o death is only the necessary first step
o resurrection which is the actual step which brings about the change.
o without death, resurrection does not happen,
o important step towards life which is eternal.
o “the dead in Christ will be raised imperishable.”
o “in Christ”
o death becomes the door by which they will be changed through the resurrection into those who will inherit eternal life.
- not the only way
o “we will not all sleep.”
o some, perhaps even some of us here, who will not have to die.
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