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The Resurrection Of The Dead

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• The Bible clearly teaches the general resurrection of the dead• Many today deny the

resurrection of the dead

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Acts 26:8

• Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

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I. In The Old Testament

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Job. 19:25-27

• For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

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Ps. 17:15

• As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness

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Is. 26:19

• Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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Daniel 12:2

• And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

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Hosea 13:14

• I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

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II. In The New Testament

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Jn. 5:28-29

• Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

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Acts 17:32

• And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

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Acts 26:8

• Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

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1 Th. 4:16

• 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:

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2 Cor. 5:1-2

• For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

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1 Cor. 15:51 – we will all be changed

• Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

171 Cor. 15:44 – not a natural but a spiritual body

• It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

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1 Cor. 15: 52, 54 – and incorruptible body

• 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.

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• 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.

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1 Cor. 15:43 – a glorious body

• It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

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1 Jn. 3:2 – we shall be like Christ

• 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.

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Phil. 3:20-21

• For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 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.

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Jn. 14:1-3

• Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also