INTRO: You will have forgotten by now what we covered last year on Resurrection Sunday. Because of the importance of that message to this one I will give a rather long introduction. We have been in 1 Corinthians 15 for some years on this day and last year we covered the two questions raised in verse 35. So turn to 1 Corinthians 15. This is what verse 35 says:
35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?"
In this section we have the manner of the resurrection questioned. The first question in verse 35 is: "How are the dead raised up?" The second question is: "And with what body do they come?" Now those seem like legitimate questions. But Paul answers like this: Foolish one! What I think happened is this: There were those who did not believe in the resurrection and they were ridiculing the possibility of the resurrection. Maybe they said what we might be tempted to say after we such things as the airplane crash here a month ago, and all there is left is a crater in the ground and debris all over the place. And we might say, "How can God ever resurrect those bodies?" And so Paul says 'Foolish one!' To answer their 'how' question he says. "Take a seed. Unless it is sown and dies it cannot be made alive."
Their second question, the what question, was: "And with what body do they come?" And he answers like this: "What you sow in the ground is not the body that shall be, but mere grain, perhaps of wheat or some other grain."
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