What difference is the resurrection making in your life today?
Most Christians would say they believe that Jesus rose from the dead. In our context, that is not where the struggle lies. None of our church members are wrestling to believe that Jesus rose again from the grave. That was not the case in First Epistle to the Corinthians 15. There, Paul exposes the absurdity of denying the resurrection. If it is not true, the Christian life is not merely difficult, it is utterly futile. But he goes further than proving the resurrection. He shows how it reshapes every part of a Christian’s life.
If you are in Christ, the resurrection has already transformed your past. Scripture says, “in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.” Death is not random. It entered the world through sin. But Jesus Christ stepped into our place, died for sin, and rose again. His resurrection is the proof that his sacrifice was accepted. In him, your sin-saturated past has been atoned for. The verdict has already been declared.
It also transforms your future. Jesus is called the “firstfruits”, meaning he is not the last to rise, but the first of many. Those who belong to him will be raised. Death, the enemy we spend our lives avoiding, will not have the final word. It has been defeated, and one day it will be abolished completely.
But the resurrection is not only about the past and the future. It presses into the present.
Your body right now feels the effects of a fallen world. Weakness, sickness, ageing, frustration. Yet Paul describes a coming transformation. What is sown perishable will be raised imperishable. What is weak will be raised in power. What is natural will be raised spiritual, not immaterial, but perfectly aligned with the Spirit of God. Never again will it resist the godly desires of the redeemed heart.
That means your present suffering is not pointless. Every ache, every limitation, every struggle points forward. The resurrection is God’s final answer to all that is broken.
And because of that, your life now has weight and purpose. Paul ends with a call: be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. Why? Because your labour is not in vain.
Everything done in Christ carries into eternity.
The resurrection is not an abstract doctrine. It is the turning point of history, and it demands a response today.
Hi David
Below you mention the body. Do you mean that by Paul the apostle’s declaration in the word of God is speaking of the physical body. What is sown perishable will be raised imperishable? My understanding is that the “flesh” the “fallen man” inherited from Adam is what is perishable and not the physical body. The body is good but it is indwelling sin that corrupts. Christ came in His incarnation in a “truly human body”, He was perfect and sinless but lived in a physical body as ours, while sinless he still felt hunger and cold etc.
So “the flesh” is moral/spiritual, not physical. It’s about what we are by nature apart from grace. As I understand it, it is our “sinful nature”, the “flesh” “the perishable” that will be finally glorified and raised imperishable, yet you refer to the body as “sown perishable and will be raised imperishable”.
It’s not the body that is bad, we were made in the image of God but sin, Adam’s fall, is what corrupted everything.
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Your body right now feels the effects of a fallen world. Weakness, sickness, ageing, frustration. Yet Paul describes a coming transformation. What is sown perishable will be raised imperishable. What is weak will be raised in power. What is natural will be raised spiritual, not immaterial, but perfectly aligned with the Spirit of God. Never again will it resist the godly desires of the redeemed heart.