Lets Get Physical

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Lets Get Physical!

• Romans 818-25

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Romans 818-21

• For I consider that the sufferings of the
  present time are not worthy to be compared with
  the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the
  anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for
  the revealing of the sons of God. For the
  creation was subjected to futility, not
  willingly, but because of Him who subjected it,
  in hope that the creation itself also will be set
  free from its slavery to corruption into the
  freedom of the

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Romans 821-24

• children of God. For we know that the whole
  creation groans and suffers the pain of
  childbirth together until now. And not only
  this, but also we ourselves, having the first
  fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan
  within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our
  adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

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Romans 824-25

• For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is
  seen is not hope for who hopes for what he
  already sees? But if we hope for what we do not
  see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

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The Believers Future Glory

• Overshadows Present Sufferings

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The Believers Future Glory

• Overshadows Present Sufferings
• Consummates in the Redemption of the Physical Body

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Adoption Already-Not Yet Reality

• For you have not received a spirit of slavery
  leading to fear again, but you have received a
  spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out,
  Abba! Father! - Romans 815

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Flashback to the Garden of Eden

• Then the Lord formed man of dust from the
  ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
  of life and man became a living being.
• - Genesis 27
• The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib
  which He had taken from the man, and brought her
  to the man. The man said, This is now bone of
  my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
• - Genesis 223-24

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Nature of Bodys Redemption

• So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is
  sown a perishable body, it is raised an
  imperishable body it is sown in dishonor, it is
  raised in glory it is sown in weakness, it is
  raised in power.
• - 1 Corinthians 1542-43

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Timing of Bodys Redemption

• Behold, I tell you a mystery we will not all
  sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment,
  in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet
  for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
  raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For
  this perishable must put on the imperishable, and
  this mortal must put on immortality.

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Timing of Bodys Redemption

• But when this perishable will have put on the
  imperishable, and this mortal will have put on
  immortality, then will come about the saying that
  is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O
  death, where is your victory? O death, where is
  your sting?
• - 1 Corinthians 1551-55

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Timing of Bodys Redemption

• For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
  again, even so God will bring with Him those who
  have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to
  you by the word of the Lord, that we who are
  alive and remain until the coming of the Lord,
  will not preceded those who have fallen asleep.
  For the Lord will descend from heaven with a
  shout, with the voice of the archangel and with
  the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will
  rise first.
• - 1 Thessalonians 414-16

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What About Now?

• For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be
  clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch
  as we, having put it on, will not be found naked
  Therefore, being always of good courage, and
  knowing that while we are at home in the body we
  are absent from the Lord we are of good
  courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent
  from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
• - 2 Corinthians 52-3, 6, 8

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The Believers Future Glory

• Overshadows Present Sufferings
• Consummates in the Redemption of the Physical
  Body
• Remains a Present Hope

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Grant Honor to the Body

• Individually as Stewards of the Body

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Grant Honor To The Body

• Individually as Stewards of the Body
• Corporately as we Meet the Physical Needs of our
  Community

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Biblical Care for the Body

• For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to
  eat I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to
  drink I was a stranger, and you invited Me in
  naked, and you clothed Me I was sick, and you
  visited Me I was in prison , and you came to Me
• Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did
  it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the
  least of them, you did it for Me.
• - Matthew 2535-36, 40

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Biblical Care for the Body

• Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our
  God and Father is this to visit the orphans and
  widows in their distress, and to keep oneself
  unstained by the world.
• - James 127

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Nantucket Life Saving Museum
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