Resurrection to life
Every believer of Jesus Christ should be on the expectation that one day they will be resurrected from the dead or, as Paul says, that we will be transformed (1 Thes 4:16-17). The scriptures tell us that while this body is on its way to decay and back to ashes, it will rise back in a glorious state (2 Cor 4:16). We are going to be rescued from our decaying bodies and be united with our eternal home (2 Cor 5:1-2). We believe that Jesus Christ is coming for the church, and at that time, we will be raptured or taken up to the skies to be with the Lord forever. We have attained this hope through the scriptures, and we want our loved ones, friends, and strangers not to miss out. The Lord has commissioned us to go out and preach that message to the world. The scriptures instill the need to save the lost in us.
Mark 12:23-25
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, and they tried to entrap our Lord with a question about marriage and the resurrection in the end. Jesus accused them of not having complete knowledge of the scriptures and God’s power. Throughout the Old Testament, the authors spoke of a time when God would rise from the dead (Job 19:25-27). Jesus’ response to them with what happens when we come into his presence at the resurrection, that we will no longer need human companionship. God will be all in all (1 Cor 15:28). And just as angels, who God satisfies with all their emotional needs, we come into his presence, our needs will be satisfied. Today, we are all in need of companionship. That is why we behave the way we do in life. It is why we also become sick, because we need someone to care for us. Our training to be as angels begins when we establish a relationship with Christ. Jesus said that if anyone thirsted, he should come to him (Jh 7:37). Relationships only provide partial satisfaction; only God can provide complete satisfaction.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
2 Corinthian 4:16
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 5:1-2
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
Job 19:25-27
25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
1 Corinthians 15:28
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
John 7:37
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.