21/01/2023
Hope for the body
Now what about our bodies? Is it enough that the law of sin and death no longer works in it when we are still subject to disease, weakness and death? Never! When Christ resurrected, the Bible says He arose as the first fruits of them that slept (1Cor 15:20). Farmers can normally tell what kind of a harvest to expect by looking at the first fruit that appeared. If the first fruit is withered or deformed, they know that the year was bad for them. But if the first fruit is well formed and beautiful, then they know to expect a bounty harvest because all the rest of the fruit that will follow later must and will all have the same kind of body that the first fruits had.
The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven.
As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 1Cor 15:47-49..shalom and peace..
By Min. Ralph Robertson
