1 Corinthians 15:42 “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:”
Someday, today, or maybe a few years from now we will utterly
understand what it is like to be incorruptible. We that are saved will not
understand the full power of our salvation until we are with the Lord in
heaven. In this flesh we are sinners because Satan, the chief sinner brought
sin into this world when he convinced Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit, and
because of that Adam did eat, and because of that we were born in corruption.
Even though our salvation is complete through Jesus Christ, our salvation will
not be completed for us until the rapture and our bodies are glorified “it
is raised in incorruption:.” Peter wrote in 1Peter 1:23 “Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever.” Our souls are pure when we are saved and our spirits are
also pure because they have been quickened from a dead state to a living state.
However, our bodies are still in the state of corruption, therefore, sin is continually
eating them up and they are continuing to die. God said in Romans 8:30 “Moreover
whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Therefore, to
God we are glorified because God sees the end result, but our bodies will not
be glorified until we are raptured or resurrected from the grave and changed,
then we are truly incorruptible. One glorious day, we that have been blessed by
God’s grace to be His children will stand in the kingdom of God as pure as
Jesus Christ is. All our sins have been forgiven, cleansed by the blood of our
Saviour. Paul made it known that in this flesh there is nothing good, “I
know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing”. Rom. 7:18
However, when we are in God’s kingdom we will no longer have this flesh, we
will shed it and leave it behind. While today we may not understand what it
will be like we know that we will be like our Saviour, “Beloved, now are we
the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that,
when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
1 John 3:2 With our souls being cleansed by the blood of the Saviour, our
spirits being quickened by the Holy Spirt in salvation, our vial bodies will
soon be like that of our glorious Saviour. Philippians 3:21 “Who shall
change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body,
according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto
himself.” All Christians should hate sin because we are sinning against the
very God that saved us by grace. God gave us so much, He loved us when we hated
Him. He loved us so much He sacrificed His very own Son to redeem us. And in
return we can not (because of our old nature still being present) resist
sinning. Although for most Christians we do not want to sin, we do and that is unfortunate
for us. But, a great day is coming, and may be soon that when our salvation is
complete in the rapture and we are given our new glorified bodies, we will
understand. We will for the first time understand what being incorruptible.
Please listen closely to what God said through Peter’s writing, Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy
hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, “To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth
not away, reserved in heaven for you, (5) Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter 1:3
– 5. What a day that will be when we drop this robe of flesh and no longer
desire to sin because sin will no longer be any part of our being. Praise the
Lord!
