We are going to finish out our discussion today of what is heaven like with the question: What will we be like in heaven? Will we have physical bodies, and if so what kind of bodies will they be?
We will start in John 5:28, it says, “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.” He is speaking here about the resurrection. All will be resurrected, whether you are a believer or a nonbeliever. Whether you know Christ or not, you will be resurrected and you will be given a new body.
In Philippians 3:21, it says this to the Christian, “who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.” We are going to have transformed bodies that are in some fashion conformed to His body as well.
The central passage on what we will be like in heaven when it comes to our physical form is found in 1 Corinthians 15. This is the key passage in Scripture on resurrection. Let’s look at a few things here starting with 1 Corinthians 15:35, “But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?” Paul is not too excited about that question. He says, “You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.” So, we plant a seed in the ground, but what comes out of that seed does not look like the seed, it looks like something else. So, the body as it dies and is resurrected will be a body that will be in connection with the body that passed away, but at the same time it will be different . . .
