I Cor. 15 & J. Piper

Christ lifted my sins and carried them to the cross and died the death that I deserve to die. That means my death is no longer punitive. My death is no longer the wrath of God against me, rather through Christ’s atonement my death, or the death of any of God’s children, is our entrance into full salvation, with no condemnation.

“This mortal body must put on immortality and death is swallowed up in victory for the child of God, through Christ Jesus.”

If Christ had not been raised then this would not be so, but Christ has been raised from the dead and I am raised with him.

At God’s appointed time I will appear, in this flesh, to die and this fleshly vessel will be sown like a kernal. What is sown is perishable, but what God raises from that is imperishable.

It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. This is because flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom nor can perishable inherit the imperishable.