It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
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The song that Brian sang for Stacey wasn't at first intended to be a love song. The song is titled I'll Be. It hit the charts in 1998, peaked at number five, and has been trending on wedding reception playlists ever since. Maybe you recognize the chorus if you're around my age. It goes, I'll be your crying shoulder. I'll be love's suicide. I'll be better when I'm older. I'll be the greatest fan of your life. It might not sound like much, but apparently over one million Dr. Phil viewers voted it as the best wedding song ever written. The songwriter's original intention, however, was 180 degrees different than how fans have received it. Edwin McCain wrote the song after a bad breakup. He was young, immature, mired in alcoholism and despair, and the song for him was a confession of sins and a prayer of hope. He said that it was his admission of his own self-sabotaged relationship failures, hence the love-suicide line. But it was also a prayer, a plea, that he could grow and be a better person. …
Amen. It's more powerful than anything any of us could say. It's the Word of God. And the Bible says the Word of God is like the rain from heaven. It comes down and it always accomplishes what it needs to do. Like the rain doesn't fall from the sky without hitting the dirt and, you know, making the seeds do what they do. You know, it's going to accomplish. And he says, in the same way, that's what my word does. Just read it, and it'll accomplish something here. That's different from my words. I could say something, it'll go in one ear, out the other, without anything happening. But he says, my word isn't like that. It's living, active. It'll get in your heart. And that's my prayer. Maybe some of you today, you hear that and you go, man, I have not been serious about pleasing God first. I have not been steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. I've been about me. And this is what we're going to do. …
When the bodies are prepared, the departed souls shall again enter into their bodies, and be re-united to them, never more to be separated. The souls of the wicked shall be brought up out of hell, though not out of misery, and shall very unwillingly enter into their bodies, which will be but eternal prisons to them. Rev. xx. 13. “And death and hell delivered up the dead that were in them.” They shall lift their eyes full of the utmost amazement and horror to see their awful Judge. And perhaps the bodies with which they shall be raised will be most filthy and loathsome, thus properly corresponding to the inward, moral turpitude of their souls. The souls of the righteous shall descend from heaven together with Christ and his angels: 1 Thess. iv. 14. ?Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” They also shall be re-united to their bodies, that they may be glorified with them. They shall receive their bodies prepared by God to be mansions of pleasure to all eternity. They shall be every way fitted for the uses, the exercises, and delights of perfectly holy and glorified souls. They shall be clothed with a superlative beauty, similar to that of Christ’s glorious body: Phil. iii. 21. “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.” Their bodies shall rise incorruptible, no more liable to pain or disease, and with an extraordinary vigour and vivacity, like that of those spirits that are as a flame of fire. 1 Cor. xv. 43, 44. “It is sown in dishonour, 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.” With what joy will the souls and bodies of the saints meet, and with what joy will they lift up their heads out of their graves to behold the glorious sight of the appearing of Christ! And it will be a glorious sight to see those saints arising out of their graves, putting off their corruption, and putting on incorruption and glory. …
3. The saints on earth shall behold this glorious sight of their Saviour coming in the clouds of heaven, with all his holy angels with him. The first notice that shall be given of this descent shall be in heaven, but soon after there shall be notice of it on earth. Christ shall be seen coming while he is yet at a great distance; every eye shall see him, of both good and bad. And it will be the most joyful sight to the saints that ever they saw. The first notice of it will cause their hearts to overflow with joy and gladness, it will fill the hearts of the godly as full of joy as it will the wicked with terror and amazement. If the saints are then waked out of their sleep at midnight with this sound, that Christ appears in the clouds of heaven coming to judgment, it will be joyful news to them. It is probable many of the saints at that time will be found suffering persecution, for there are several things in Scripture which seem to declare, that the time when Christ is coming shall be a time when wickedness shall exceedingly abound, and the saints shall be greatly persecuted. But this shall set them at liberty; then they may lift up their heads out of prisons and dungeons, and many out of galleys, and mines, and shall see their Redeemer drawing nigh. This sight will drive away their persecutors, it will put an end to all their cruelties, and set God’s people at liberty. And then when all the kindreds of the earth shall wail at the sight of Christ in the clouds of heaven, and wicked men every where shall be shrieking and crying with terrible amazement, the saints shall be filled with praise and transport. We read that, when Christ ascended into heaven, the disciples stood stedfastly looking on as he went up. But the saints then on earth shall view Christ with more stedfastness as he descends in his heavenly and exceeding glory; they shall feed and feast their eyes with this majestic sight, beholding in what solemn and glorious pomp their own blessed Redeemer descends. This sight shall put a final end to all sorrow, and their everlasting joy and glory will commence from it. The hope of the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, is said to be a blessed hope. Titus ii. 13. “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” But when it comes it will be a more blessed sight. …