• Let's look at some word definitions for this Bible Study.
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• immortal -

  1. Not subject to death.

  2. Never to be forgotten; everlasting.

• mortal -

  1. Liable or subject to death.

  2. Of or relating to humankind; human.

  3. Of, relating to, or accompanying death.

• life -

1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.

2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.

3. Living organisms considered as a group.

•  death -   

1. The permanent end of all functions of life in an organism or some of its cellular components:
2. Some phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging, malnutrition, disease, suicide, murder and accidents resulting in terminal injury. 

• resurrection-

1. The rising of Jesus from the tomb after his death; a central and distinctive belief of the Christian faith.
2. The act of rising from the dead or returning to life.
3. The state of one who has returned to life.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 NIV

51/ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52/ in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53/ For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

The Resurrection of Christ

1/ Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2/ By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3/ For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4/ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5/ and that he appeared to Cephas, {referring to Peter} and then to the Twelve. 6/ After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7/ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8/and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. 9/ For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10/ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11/ Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

The Resurrection of the Dead

12/ But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13/ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14/ And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15/ More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16/ For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17/ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18/ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19/ If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20/ But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21/ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22/ For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23/ But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24/ Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25/ For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26/ The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27/ For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28/ When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. 29/ Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30/ And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? 31/ I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32/ If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33/ Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34/ Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

The Resurrection Body

35/ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36/ How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37/ When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38/ But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39/ Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40/ There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41/ The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. 42/ So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43/ it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44/ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45/ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46/ The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47/ The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48/ As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49/ And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. 50/ I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51/ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52/ in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53/ For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54/ When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55/ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56/ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57/ But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58/ Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Loving God, Loving My Neighbor With the Compassion of Jesus

Our Risen Savior

Romans 12:15

Ecclesiates 3:1-8 NIV 

A Time for Everything

ROMANS 15:13 NIV

13/ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

During the week we will be adding more scriptures that pertain to the resurrection of the dead. Be sure to come back to get all of God's good, good, word that will bless & encourage you. It is so wonderful to be assured by God's Word that we have eternal life & that we will, at the second coming of Jesus, receive glorified bodies with no death in them; while being reunited with our loved ones that have gone home to be with the Lord.

CONTINUED 

JESUS RAISED THE DEAD TO LIFE

MATTHEW 9:18, 23 thru 26 KJV

18/ WHILE HE SPAKE THESE THINGS UNTO THEM, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A CERTAIN RULER, AND WORSHIPPED HIM, SAYING, MY DAUGHTER IS EVEN NOW DEAD: BUT COME AND LAY THY HAND UPON HER, AND SHE SHALL LIVE. 23/ AND WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE RULER'S HOUSE, AND SAW THE MINSTRELS AND THE PEOPLE MAKING A NOISE, 24/ HE SAID UNTO THEM, GIVE PLACE: FOR THE MAID IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH. AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN. 25/ BUT WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE PUT FORTH, HE WENT IN, AND TOOK HER BY THE HAND, AND THE MAID AROSE. 26/ AND THE FAME HEREOF WENT ABROAD INTO ALL THAT LAND.

LUKE 7:12 thru 15 KJV

12/ NOW WHEN HE CAME NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW: AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH HER. 13/ AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT. 14/ AND HE CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER: AND THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, YOUNG MAN, I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE. 15/ AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER.

 UPDATE

ABOUT GOOD FRIDAY

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES ON APRIL 18TH, 2014, COMMERATE THE DEATH OF OUR PRECIOUS LORD & SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.{In actuality, by Jewish calendar dates & times, Jesus Christ our Passover lamb, was sacrificed and died at the time of the Jews Passover sacrifice of the lambs in the evening at the end of the 14th of Abib (Nisan), which occurred on a Wednesday in 31 AD, the year of His crucifixion. He was buried just before sunset that day, and he remained in the grave, "the belly or heart of the earth," for exactly three days and three nights, as He had said,

 until he rose from the grave of His death just around sunset on that week's Sabbath ending Saturday evening/Sunday morning.

Jewish Calendar Date:
When God created time, He first created night and then day;

{Genesis 1:5 * 5/And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day}

therefore, a Jewish calendar date begins with the night beforehand. While a day in the secular calendar begins and ends at midnight, a Jewish day goes from nightfall to nightfall. It was first discovered by His followers, early on Sunday morning, the end of the 7th day Sabbath, the 1st day of the week, that He had risen from the dead.

The actual day & time we celebrate Jesus' birth, death & resurrection, is of  secondary importance to the facts that:

• Jesus was/is God born in the flesh {God in a physical body * Colossians 2:9 - 9/ For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form};
• He did indeed die on the cross to fully atone for all of our sins; {1 Corinthians 15:3 NIV * 3/ For what I received I passed on to you as               of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
• He was buried and resurrected from the dead in three days just as He said He would. { 1 Corinthians 15:4 NIV 4/that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
• Jesus told us to partake of  what we call "The Lord's Supper" or "Holy Communion" also called "Eucharist" by some Christian Churches, in rememberance of Him. Good Friday Services are a way of Honoring God and universally drawing attention to the fact that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. The services Honor God by remembering His ultimate sacrifice of Himself for us; whether the actual day of that sacrifice was on a Friday,Wednesday,  Thursday, or whenever, the main point is to HONOR GOD with an outward expression of rememberance of it. WE HAVE BEEN GRATEFULLY REMEMBERING THIS SACRIFICE THAT JESUS MADE FOR US, FOR OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS!!! 
•  Colossians 2:16-17 NKJV

• 16/ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17/ Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Luke 9:22-24 NLT

22/ “The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,” he said. “He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”

THE RESURRECTION!

Matthew 27:50-65 NIV

50/ And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. 51/ At that moment the curtain of  the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52/ and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53/ They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

54/ When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”

55/ Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. 56/ Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

The Burial of Jesus

57/ As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58/ Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59/ Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60/ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61/Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.

The Guard at the Tomb

62/ The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63/ “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64/ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.” 65/ “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66/ So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.

TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY ON THE TEACHINGS OF WHERE JESUS FIRST WENT AFTER HE DIED ON THE CROSS AT CALVARY, REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #111 "HE {JESUS} SET THE CAPTIVES FREE"

MATTHEW 28:1-20 NIV 

Jesus Has Risen

1/ After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2/ There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3/ His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4/ The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. 5/ The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6/ He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7/ Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.” 8/ So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9/ Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10/ Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

The Guards’ Report

11/ While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12/ When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13/ telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’  14/ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15/ So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

The Great Commission

16/ Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17/ When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18/ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19/ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20/ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2014