Glorify God in Your Body'
As we await the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we should strive to glorify God increasingly in our bodies, both now and in the future.
H.J. Vine preaches about the transformation of believers' bodies from their current state of humiliation to future bodies of glory, emphasizing the importance of using our bodies in a way that honors God. The resurrection of Jesus serves as a promise and evidence of this future transformation, with believers' bodies being likened to seeds sown that will bear fruit in resurrection life. The sermon highlights eight distinctions that will mark our future bodies for the praise of God, including being quickened, raised, incorruptible, glorious, powerful, spiritual, heavenly, and immortal.
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Thus Paul wrote to the believers at Corinth, for they were in danger of using their bodies in a wrong way (1 Cor. 6:18-20).
A day is approaching when the bodies of the redeemed will be altogether for the praise of God's glory. They are bodies of humiliation now: they will be bodies of glory then, for Christ will have come and raised or changed them.
The resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ is the pledge and proof of this, as 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 shows, "Christ the Firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming."
The burial of a believer's body is spoken of as seed sown, and the fruit is borne in resurrection. Dead and buried it will burst forth soon in resurrection life! The sleeping time will give place to the glorious awaking! The eighth day, or the first day of the week, often speaks of the resurrection day, and eight distinctions, or glories, are to mark our bodies for the praise of the living God soon, as this chapter clearly shows
1. A quickened body (vv. 36, 45).
2. A raised body (v. 42).
3. In incorruption (v. 42).
4. In glory (v. 43).
5. In power (v. 43).
6. Spiritual (v. 44).
7. Heavenly (v. 49).
8. In immortality (v. 53).
"When this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality," we may truly say, God will eternally be glorified in our bodies.
Oh! for grace to glorify Him increasingly in them now, as we await the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sermon Outline
- The Importance of Glorifying God in Our Bodies
- The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- The Glories of Our Resurrected Bodies
- Eight Distinctions of Glory
- The Incorruptible and Immortal Body
Key Quotes
“A quickened body, a raised body, in incorruption, in glory, in power, spiritual, heavenly, in immortality, we may truly say, God will eternally be glorified in our bodies.” — H.J. Vine
“When this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,” — H.J. Vine
Application Points
- We should seek to glorify God in our bodies by using them in a way that honors and praises Him.
- We can trust that our bodies will be changed in the resurrection to be incorruptible and immortal.
- We should eagerly await the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the glorification of our bodies.