No, I’m not talking about abdomens! Though, in one sense, I suppose they might also be included. I’m talking about the well-known effects of sin upon the world—and every living and non-living thing within it. You patch up your car so long as it’s possible, but eventually, you have to push it the last mile to the junk yard. It’s only so long before it “goes to pot.” The same is true of your body. The doctor works you over again and again, doing all that’s humanly possible to keep you running. But, like your car, your body eventually gives out. You can get a new car, but unless you’re a Christian you’ll never get a new body that’s worth having! Paul tells us that, at the resurrection we will receive a body like Christ’s glorious body—one that passed through walls, rose from the earth—who knows what else. But, even if it only corresponds to His body in minimal ways, without doing those things, it will be wonderful. There will be no more pain, no more bodily suffering, no more death and decay. The new body that the believer will receive will be perfect, without flaw—and it will never go


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