Resurrection
Luke 23:49, 54-56; 24:1-11 – Collapse or Comeback, Which Will It Be? (July 28, 1996) – MP3 / YouTube
How did the women who followed Jesus from Galilee respond to the setback of Jesus’ crucifixion? They continued to serve Jesus and to persevere in their dedication to Him. These women’s comeback began when they realized that Jesus Christ is alive. The most fundamental and basic rule that you and I can follow regardless of the setbacks that come into our life and experience is that we should press forward in our determination to serve Jesus in whatever way we can. Jesus rising from the dead is the greatest comeback in human history, and because He is alive, our comeback is possible from any setback that life can bring us. Other passages: Luke 8:1-3; 1 Corinthians 15:58.
Luke 24:33-43; Philippians 3:20-21 – Sudden Improvement (1996) – MP3 / YouTube
Did you know that every Christian (one who has believed in Jesus for the free gift of everlasting life) is a candidate for sudden improvement in your physical body? Our bodies have limits which we cannot improve beyond. The only person who is able give us a marvelous and wonderful improvement in our physical bodies, is the Person who created them, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. God uses the model of our Lord’s own resurrection body, as the model, example and pattern by which He will improve the physical body of every single Christian. The capacity of our new physical bodies will be designed in some way to serve God and glorify God in ways that we have never been able to do before. Other passages: Psalm 16:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52.
End Times (Eschatology) Questions and Answers (May 17, 2004) – MP3 / YouTube
Zane Hodges answers the following questions on the end times (eschatology) at Coast Bible Church: 4:43 Do believers receive an intermediate body when they die and go to be with the Lord until the day their physical bodies are raised out of the grave at the Rapture? 5:25 In our glorified bodies how will our relationship to time and space change? 7:20 What role will the Old Testament law have in the times following the Rapture? 9:13 Are lost people judged and condemned because they have not believed in Jesus Christ (John 3:18) or because of their works (Revelation 20:12)? 17:55 Explain Paul’s experience in 2 Corinthians 12:2-3. 19:47 When is the Judgment Seat of Christ? 22:25 Will we become part of the cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews 12:1? 23:07 Will there be a literal marriage feast in the kingdom? 24:20 Does the reference to “joy in heaven over one sinner who repents” in Luke 15:7 indicate that people who are dead in heaven are interested in what is going on here? 27:26 What degree are Gentiles going to be held to the law and what is the role of the law in the Millennium? Is the law just to bring people to a knowledge of sin or does the law have a sanctification purpose in the Millennium? 33:30 Will the sacrificial system that is reinstated in the Millennium be performed with real animals? 39:28 How can it be that the most-high created being (Satan) think that he can overcome his Creator? 43:20 Will unbelievers, who remain on earth after the Rapture and go into the Tribulation, have a second chance to believe the gospel? 46:30 Will glorified believers sense of time be different during the Tribulation and Millennium? 48:05. What is your view of the “outer darkness” mentioned in the parables in Matthew?51:10 Can you explain how the looking at the serpent for healing in Numbers 21:9 is used as an analogy to illustrate believing in Jesus in John 3? 53:43 Regarding, the saints who have died and are crying out under the altar in Revelation 6:9-10, have these saints received their glorified bodies? Also, will glorified believers know what is going on during the Tribulation?