The mortal body we are sowing today is dishonorable. It is an animal body. We cover our animal body with clothes so the shame of our nakedness does not appear. The body that is raised will be flesh and bones but filled within and without with righteousness and eternal spiritual life. It will be a body of glory that is clothed with the Presence of Christ.

The physical body we are sowing today is weak. Demonstrations of strength and athletic ability are pitiful compared with that which will be possible to us in the resurrection, provided we faithfully have followed the Lord. We shall speak the word and mountains shall be relocated. This is just the beginning!

The body we are sowing today is flesh and bones and receives its life from the blood in its arteries and veins. The resurrection body will be of flesh and bones but receive its life from the eternal, incorruptible, resurrection Life of the Lord Jesus. So powerful will be our new life that sleep no longer will be needed. There will be no night there! We shall be eternally alive in the Presence of Almighty God.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening [life-giving] spirit. (I Corinthians 15:45)

Human beings are living souls. This is the race of Adam. Perhaps the greatest error in Christian thinking is that God has in mind to save our adamic nature, our first personality.

One believer had a vision of the adamic personalities of the saints. They were like many Christmas trees. Each one was ornamented in a different manner, but they were all dead having been cut off at the root.

Adam is to be crucified. God has no intention of making Adam over so he is acceptable. When the Lord proclaimed on the cross, "It is finished," He meant the adamic creation. The preaching of today is incorrect when it informs people the Lord Jesus is going to repair their lives until they are happy and prosperous on the earth.

The Kingdom of God is Christ. The Kingdom of God is a new race, not a repaired adamic race. The Kingdom of God is a race of life-giving spirits.

It is interesting that the Scripture does not compare living souls with living spirits but with life-giving spirits, that is, with spirits who are able to impart Divine Life to a dead creation.

The proper Christian orientation to life is that we have died on the cross with Christ and have been raised with Him as an integral part of His resurrection.

When we adopt this viewpoint and continue to hold it in faith before God, God begins to make our viewpoint a reality in our personality. Each day some point of our adamic personality is directed toward the cross. Each day we choose to crucify our adamic personality and permit Christ to be formed in us, or else we cling to our old personality.

To be continued.