WHERE ARE THE DEAD?: THE BODY TO DUST
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Where Are The Dead?
a) Where are the Dead, and in what state are their souls? The Bible answers the question clearly, though not in detail. We will answer that question as far as the revealed word of God will allow.
2. The Body To Dust
a) James says that "the body without [separated from] the spirit is dead" (James 2:26).
b) Earthly life ends when “the silver cord is loosed” and the spirit leaves the mortal body. The body corrupts and becomes dust. This, however is not a permanent state, for there will be a resurrection at the last day.
John 5:28-29
28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
c) Paul likens the resurrection of the body to the sowing of a seed. The seed you sow dies in the ground, and from its death life springs up in a far more glorious form. So it is with our bodies.
1 Corinthians 15:37-38
37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
1 Corinthians 15:50
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1 Corinthians 15:53
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
d) So the dead go to the grave; the body undergoes corruption; dust returns to dust. Yet there is the promise that out of that death will come an immortal, glorified, and incorruptible body at the resurrection.
e) But what of the spirit? Is it still alive? Where has it gone?
The End ...
1. Where Are The Dead?a) Where are the Dead, and in what state are their souls? The Bible answers the question clearly, though not in detail. We will answer that question as far as the revealed word of God will allow.
2. The Body To Dust
a) James says that "the body without [separated from] the spirit is dead" (James 2:26).
b) Earthly life ends when “the silver cord is loosed” and the spirit leaves the mortal body. The body corrupts and becomes dust. This, however is not a permanent state, for there will be a resurrection at the last day.
John 5:28-29
28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
c) Paul likens the resurrection of the body to the sowing of a seed. The seed you sow dies in the ground, and from its death life springs up in a far more glorious form. So it is with our bodies.
1 Corinthians 15:37-38
37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
1 Corinthians 15:50
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1 Corinthians 15:53
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
d) So the dead go to the grave; the body undergoes corruption; dust returns to dust. Yet there is the promise that out of that death will come an immortal, glorified, and incorruptible body at the resurrection.
e) But what of the spirit? Is it still alive? Where has it gone?
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