We have been studying the mysteries that are found in the New Testament, the thirteen different mysteries that we can identify, the secrets that God has kept hidden from us in the past that have now been revealed to us in New Testament revelation. Yesterday, we began to talk about this mystery in the future, in which we are resurrected to a newness of life- eternal life. Our bodies will be changed, and we find that in 1 Corinthians 15.
What we want to do today is follow up on that same mystery. We are not going to introduce another mystery, but we want to get some more details about that. Which of us have not wondered what we will look like in heaven, and in our eternal state? Some people who are heavy want to think they will be skinny. Some people who are short think they will be tall. Some people that cannot sing, now, are hoping they are going to have this wonderful voice in heaven. We have imaginations like that and many others, but what do we really know about our eternal state? What will we be like?
The Bible doesn’t come right out and say that we are going to look like this or that, but what it does tell us- in 1 Corinthians 15, in more detail than anyplace else in the New Testamentis that our eternal state, our bodies in eternity, will have a definite connection with our bodies here, now. They will not be total re-creations or new creations. There will be a connection with our bodies here in this life, but there will be a radical change of those bodies. What we’ll exactly look like, what we will exactly do, if we will be able to have these gifts like singing or something else, we are not told those details . . .
