1. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY BODY? 1 CORINTHIANS 6:13-20

2. Business Slogans … “Invite us to your next blowout.”
- Tire Shop in Milwaukee
“Hello, can we pick your nose?”
- Plastic Surgeon Office
“Let us remove your shorts.”
- Electrician

3. Business Slogans … “We don’t charge an arm and a leg. We want tows.”
- Towing Company
“Drive carefully, we’ll wait.”
- Sign in front of Funeral Home

4. Our Body’s Future …
Corinthian Slogan (6:13)

6. Our Body’s Future …
Corinthian Slogan (6:13)

7. Our Body’s Future … Corinthian Slogan (6:13)
Naked State (2 Cor 5:1-4, 6-8)

8. Our Body’s “Naked” Future …
“For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked

9. Our Body’s “Naked” Future …
“For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan … because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed … knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord … I prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.” - 2 Corinthians 5:1-4, 6-8

10. Our Body’s Future … Corinthian Slogan (6:13)
Naked State (2 Cor 5:1-4, 6-8)
Pauline Statement (6:14)

11. Our Body’s Future …
“Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.” - Romans 8:23

12. Our Body’s Future …
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has.” - Phil 3:20-21

13. Our Body’s Future …
“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.” - 1 Corinthians 15:42-43

14. Our Body’s Present … The Body’s Disgrace
Yet, God Designed its Presence.
“Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”
- Genesis 2:7

15. Our Body’s Present … The Body’s Disgrace Yet, God Designed …
Its Presence
Its Praise
“This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman.” - Genesis 2:23

16. Our Body’s Present … The Body’s Disgrace
Yet, God Designed …
Its Presence
Its Praise
Its Passions
So “glorify God in your body!”

17. Our Body’s Present … The Body’s Disgrace The Body’s Division
Sex NOT just satisfaction of urge!

18. Sex Today …
“The most striking shift in teenage and twenty something sexual behavior in the last decade is the disconnect between sex & emotional involvement.” - Jean Twenge “We cannot take our bodies to bed with someone and park our souls outside in the car to wait.” - L. Smedes

19. Our Body’s Present … The Body’s Disgrace The Body’s Division
Sex NOT just satisfaction of urge!
Food NOT just satisfaction of urge!

20. Our Body’s Present … The Body’s Disgrace The Body’s Division
The Body’s Damage

21. Our Body’s Potential … Beware Damage by … Eyes Ears & Hearts
Hands & Feet
Mouth

22. Our Body’s Potential … Beware Damage by … Build Patterns for Health
Behold Disability through Eternity

23. Our Body’s Potential …
“I still can hardly believe it. I, with shriveled, bent fingers, atrophied muscles, gnarled knees, and no feeling from the shoulders down, will one day have a new body, light, bright, and clothed in righteousness – powerful and dazzling. Can you imagine the hope this gives someone spinal-cord …

24. Our Body’s Potential …
“… injured like me? Or someone who is cerebral palsied, brain-injured, or who has multiple sclerosis? No other religion, no other philosophy promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the Gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.” - Joni Eareckson Tada

25. WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE? REVELATION 21-22
NEXT WEEK …
WHAT WILL HEAVEN BE LIKE?
REVELATION 21-22