Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(1Co 15:53) “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. (54)  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”  The curse of death is the result of sin: “For all have sinned;” and “the soul that sinneth, it will die”.  Jesus  will  call forth the repentant soul washed by His blood to inhabit a resurrected victorious uncorrupted body!

(1Co 15:52) “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”  In the time it takes us to blink, the saved will find themselves changed, on the move upward to meet the Lord in the air. One moment is all it will take. Please  Lord Jesus come soon!

WATER  (1Co 15:51)  “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,”   For the Lord to say anything is as if He made a vow to you. He cannot lie nor fail. He says nothing idly. So, every single Born Again person shall be changed, receiving that gloried heavenly body – Praise God! 

(1Co 15:51)  “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,”  Speaking to the spiritually made alive (all), the word “sleep” is being used. Why?  Because the physical body laid in the grave will be resurrected as well as changed. So, it is “as if” it were sleeping.

(1Co 15:50) “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”  These corruptible bodies of which we inhabit, are not worthy to occupy space in heaven. So often I hear Believers speak of what they think their thoughts and actions would be like in heaven. Most often they reflect the sin nature’s corruption. Thank God even that will be removed, left behind us!

 (1Co 15:49) “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” The statement is emphatic. We, the blood bought, gift of everlasting life endowed, spirit sealed Children of God will, one day, without doubt, be changed into “the image of the heavenly”! The God Who cannot lie has promised. The token of that promise is evidenced by the Spirit of God within  you!

(1Co 15:48) “As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”  In order to go to a heavenly place, one must be made heavenly. It is a spiritual place, for God is a Spirit (Jn 4:24). Therefore a time and place is required to be made spiritually alive (Jn 3). If you read the New Testament, you will find this occurring upon adults. In other words, old enough to know one’s sin crucified Jesus and repent.

 (1Co 15:48) “As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”  If you have not repented which means to have a desire to turn from your sinful life, and asked the Lord God to save you through the death and resurrection of Jesus in your place, you remain earthy.

(1Co 15:46) “Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. (47)  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”  We each, as the offspring of Adam, are natural, alive in the flesh, yet dead spiritually. That life was brought to us through the very Lord from heaven. God in flesh died in the flesh, but was raised a spiritual flesh body. He promises the same for those who embrace Him as their only means of salvation.

(1Co 15:45) “And so it is written, [The first man Adam was made a living soul]  Brackets Mine; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.”   The first part is a quote from Genesis. Man’s soul, as opposed to the soul of animals (Job 12:10) is eternal. But God’s world is a spirit world, for God is a Spirit (Jn 4:24). To dwell with God, we must be made spirit. Jesus, because He conquered death, gives life (quickens) to the spirit, thus saving the individual soul.