The Firstfruits of Redemption
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this is what I’m talking about! Right here! This is what I always wanted when I was on the
earth!”
We’ll all look at each other and say, “You look good!” “Man, you look good, too! Whoa!”
What else is going to happen? We’ll be caught up together with them in the air, and we will
always and ever be with the Lord and with each other. We will never again be separated from
Him or from each other. This is something to look forward to.
There is a lot about this in the Bible. There is a lot about this in the New Testament. There would
be no Gospel without this. There is no real Christianity without this; this is the heart of
Christianity.
I had to lay the foundation for that to get to this part. You might ask, “What does that have to do
with healing?” It has everything to do with healing. Is your body bought and paid for? Is it a
member of Christ? Is your body, your physical body, included in God’s eternal plan of
redemption? Yes. So your body, the body you were born with, from your mother’s womb, is
precious to Him. He has bought it and paid for it, and He has even made arrangement so that
every vestige of sin and the curse can be removed from it. That way, it can be a glorious body,
just like the body Jesus has right now.
Notice that He didn’t say in 1 Corinthians 6 that it is
going
to be
part of Christ. He said that it is
right now. It is part of Christ. If it wasn’t important whether there was disease or sickness in the
body, Jesus wouldn’t have gone about doing good and healing all who were oppressed. He
wouldn’t have spent all that time ministering to people and laying hands on people if it didn’t
matter.
Some say, “This old mortal body is about to be gone soon anyway. It’s no big deal, just love God
in your spirit...”
Denominations and Christians and people all over the world try to sell you some variation of
that. “Oh, this old body… thank God one of these days I’m going to be done with this body and
will get a new one.” No, it’s
this
body that has been bought and paid for, and it is going to be
glorified, this one. Otherwise, He could just leave them all in the grave, leave them where they
are. He could zap your spirit up to heaven and fit you with a new body up there, right? But that’s
not how He’s doing it. Why raise the dead? Why bring them out of their graves? Because He
cares about this body. He gave you this body. Don’t despise your body. You are fearfully and
wonderfully made. This body is a marvel. People tend to take it for granted because it’s with you
every day, and you see it, and as long as everything is working right, you don’t think about it. All
you notice is something that’s not working quite right. No man has ever made anything like your
body. This body is amazing, but it is in a fallen, decaying state. It’s nothing like what it was
made to be. Oh, but God is going to change it and put it back right, and then it’s going to be that
way for eternity.
In Ephesians 1:13, he says, “Ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Is He the same
Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus from the dead? Yes. Is He the same Holy Spirit Who Jesus was
