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that your body has been bought and paid for—not just your spirit, but your body. Your body is a
member of Christ. It is a permanent part of Christ.
People will say, “No. I don’t like this body. I’m getting rid of this one, and I’m getting a new
one. I’m going to have a new body.” That is both true and not true, depending on what you mean
by it. That new body you’re talking about is going to be your current body, glorified.
Some people think, “I don’t like that because I really don’t like myself. I don’t like my body.” I
assure you, once the glory flows through it, you’re going to be fine with it. Don’t be concerned.
Once the power of God flows through it, it’s going to be changed completely. The Scripture says
so. And it will never again be subject to aging or weakness or disease.
We are going to be able to do some amazing things! Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father
in His flesh-and-bone body. Remember, after He was raised from the dead, He told the disciples,
“Touch Me. Handle Me. A spirit does not have flesh and bone like you see Me.” (Luke 24:39)
They touched Him, and they put their hands on Him. Just like you can put your hand on your
own hand, they touched His body. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of Majesty in that body, and
the Bible says that He is going to change your body and my body like unto His glorious body.
(Philippians 3:21) The same change that happened in His body is about to happen in ours, not too
many days from now. That should stir you up. This is big stuff.
There are people who think, “You are all just getting worked up and you’ve got all these
imaginations.” No, it’s either true or it’s a lie. There’s no in-between on it. I am fully convinced
it is the Gospel truth, it is reality.
Several years ago, one of the leaders on a crusade team had a heart attack and died suddenly. He
was clinically dead. Well, his wife got to him as quickly as she could, and she began to yell,
“Come back in Jesus’ Name!” She called him back, “No, you don’t! No, you don’t leave me
now! Come back!” She was calling him.
He was gone. I don’t know how long they said he was clinically dead, but he had no heartbeat,
nothing, but they finally got him back. When they got him back and he came to, the first thing he
said when he looked at his wife was, “Why did you do that?”
She said, “Why? What do you mean? I didn’t want you to….”
He said, “If it ever happens again, leave me alone. Don’t do it!” He said, “Let me tell you what I
was doing.” He was an athlete in his younger years, but he’d gotten older and hadn’t been in
such good shape for a long time. He said, “I don’t know where I was, but I was on this road by
this beautiful fence and there was this landscape, I can’t describe it, but it was glorious and
beautiful, and I was walking and I decided to run. I started running, and then I began to run like I
used to when I was young. Then I began to run like I’ve never run in my life.” He said, “I don’t
know how fast I was going. I was moving! And I was just going, ‘Glory to God!’ and I didn’t
know how fast I was going. And then I woke up and I was hurting.” He said, “I started hurting
and hurting, and I woke up, and I was in this body.”
