The Firstfruits of Redemption
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You might ask, “When will I be able to do all of this?” When Brother Jesse Duplantis speaks
about his visit to heaven, he says that when he asked, “What about this?” the angel would tell
him, “Here, every desire is met.” So, if something has always been a desire of yours, get ready.
Every desire is every desire.
So what is going to happen to this body? We shall be changed. First Corinthians 15:49 says,
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy,” as sure as this is happening right now, “we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly.”
Just as surely as you have a body right now that is like Adam’s fallen body after sin, there’s
going to come a time when you are going to have a body like Jesus’ body.
Verse 50 continues, “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” The world to come is too glorious to drag this
flesh into, and yet, this body has been bought and paid for. So, what do you have to do? You
can’t leave it out, and you can’t take it in like it is. There is only one thing left to do: This body
has to be changed. How’s it going to be changed?
He said that corruption doesn’t inherit incorruption. “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep…” Not everyone is going to die. Some people will be alive and remaining when He
comes. They won’t physically die. “But we shall all be changed.” Whether we are alive, or our
body has been in the grave for 300 years, it has to be changed. This body has to be changed.
I know you’ve heard this before but it’s so true, it’s so wonderful. It’s going to happen just like
this: “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.”
It’s going to happen just as sure as you’re sitting there, just as sure as the Bible is true, just as
sure as God is real. You’re going to hear that trumpet. It’s going to be a sound like you’ve never
heard before, and it won’t be just your ears that are going to hear it. Every part of you is going to
hear it. The dead bodies in the graves are going to hear that sound, and they’re going to respond
to that sound. Do you know what the scripture says? “The dead are going to hear His voice.”
This trumpet is a voice, and the dead in Christ are going to hear it.
Wouldn’t it be neat to be alive and hear that sound, and see all of the bodies start coming out?
The saints’ bodies that were scattered to the four winds will come together. I don’t care if
different parts of their bodies were in different continents, they’re going to fly through the air,
come back together, and the glory of God is going to come over them. The same glory that raised
Jesus from the dead on the third day is going to come over the body. You and I are going to stand
there with our mouths open and say, “Glory! Glory to God!” and about that time, as it finishes
up, that power is going to hit us. The dead in Christ are going to rise first, and then it’s going to
hit us. I don’t know if it will start in our head and flow down, or in our feet and flow up, or just
hit us all at once. I don’t know, but I know this: it’s going to hit you. It’s going to flow through
you. It’s going to flow over you, and there will be no more wrinkles, no more imperfections, no
more “too fat,” “too thin,” “too young,” “too old,” too anything—everything is going to be just
right. Everything is going to be at its maximum prime, its perfection. You’re going to say, “Now,
