Jimmy Evans – Redeemed Bodies – The Best Day of Your Life

if you have your Bibles you can turn there to Luke chapter 21 now this series I'm very excited about this series is called the best day of your life I'm going to tell you about the best day of your life I'm going to tell you before it happens and I promise I'm right I'm going to tell you graphically in the next five weeks what's going to happen to you on the best day of your life because the best day of your life is going to happen when Jesus comes back and when Jesus comes back now this series when I do end times I'm going to be talking about end times for the next five weeks but when I teach on the end times I get a lot of questions about what happens when Jesus comes back what's the marriage supper of the Lamb like what's the tribulation like what's the millennium like all these kind of do what kind of bodies do we have you know what's heaven like and all of those things also in this series we're going to talk about some of the deeper questions that people have like why would a loving God send people to hell questions about you know why did God allow Adam and Eve to be tempted why was there a tree of the knowledge of good and evil why was the devil there to tempt him all of those kinds of questions to answer some of the deeper things that people genuinely want to know about so that's what this series is about but this is what Jesus said this is Luke 21 beginning in verse 25 this is what Jesus said concerning the end there will be signs in the Sun in the moon and the stars and on the earth distress of nations you can check that box with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring men's hearts failing them for fear let's stop right there that's the greek word fob offs where we get our word phobia it means terror jesus said men's hearts at the end men's hearts will be failing them for terror jesus prophesied worldwide terrorism and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth for the power of the heavens will be shaken then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory now when these things begin to happen look up and lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near now Jesus tells us here that the end is a short period of time because in other places in the Bible say that we're going to read a scripture at the end it's going to say that - he says when you see the end times things begin to happen look up your redemption is drawing near now redemption is something that a lot of people just don't understand when Jesus said when you see the end happening be excited don't get all down be excited look up your redemption is drawing near and one of the things that I love about teaching on the end times is I love to encourage people and to help you to contextualize what's happening in the world right now when you understand what the Bible has to say you understand God foretold everything that was happening on the world right now thousands of years ago this isn't news to God these are the end times but these are his times the devil isn't in control God is in control and Jesus is about the kind these are exciting times if you understand it but Jesus said look up your redemption is drawing near well what does redemption means some people think we'll aren't we already redeemed Jesus died on the cross to redeem us we only have just a tiny percent of what Jesus died to give us a foretaste is what one of the scriptures were about to read it says it's just a foretaste it's just a tiny amount but on the day that Jesus returns which is the best day of your life on that day you get the whole package everything the word redeem means to buy back if you didn't have it before you can't get it back Adam and Eve had it all God gave them the whole package but they sinned and they lost it but Jesus died and he got it back and we have a little bit of it right now but when Jesus returns we get everything back and one of the analogies that we're gonna read Romans 8 next but one of the analogies that the Bible uses about the end times is pregnancy in labor pains when a woman is pregnant and I'm going to describe this and women say you don't know what you're talking about you're right I don't I'm gonna say I don't you compared to you ladies I do not know but women get pregnant in and they're uncomfortable it starts with you know real joy you're just real happy that you're pregnant and then you know the morning sickness and all the other things that happen and then Karen when Karen got pregnant she got PO reg a nut that girl she got she got big and she she she's not here I said this thing but she's probably watching online oh she's little but she anyway [Laughter] brent was born on June 9th I think of 1977 and I was I was working for my dad in the appliance business and I had been installing an antenna in an attic I've been working all day long installing stuff and I've been installing an antenna in an attic and I got home I was exhausted I got home like at 7:00 at night I've been sweating and everything in this attic and I got home and I sat down in my chair and I said don't have that child today her water broke that moment he was born that night so that's all I know about pregnancy anyway the harder the pains get the closer the birth is and as soon as the baby is born you forget the pain not immediately you forget the pain and now what you have as a child we have to understand the harder things get in this world the sooner Jesus is going to come the labor pangs are announcing something's about to happen Romans chapter 8 in light of everything I just said here's Romans 8 yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later for all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God reveal who his children really are against this will all creation was subjected to God's curse but with eager hope the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay for we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time and we believers also groan even though we had the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering we to wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children including the new bodies he has promised us we were given this hope when we were say and so this is talking about we're in labor pains the the earth against this will was subjected to God's curse because of Adam and Eve sin but now everything is waiting to see who's got who's whose children God's children who they really are and we are going to be released from our body of death I don't know if you noticed in there it says because God has promised us new bodies this is part one this is Redemption I'm talking about what does it mean to be redeemed when Jesus says look up and lift up your head your Redemption draws near what does that mean that means Adam and Eve had a perfect body Adam and Eve would still be alive right now and their bodies would not have aged one minute if they wouldn't have sinned they had provisional immortality god says on the day that you eat that fruit over there you'll die if they had not eaten the fruit they had perfect bodies they would have never gotten sick they would have never experienced pain they would have lived forever in these perfect bodies but because of their sin we have corrupted bodies bodies to get sick buddies that are frail they're weak they die our bodies are corrupted more so than we can imagine because we are still in them but in the instant that Jesus comes and we get our new bodies we'll be able to understand what it's like to have full Redemption in the perfect bodies they had them they lost them Jesus died to redeem us we still live in this state though but when Jesus comes we get our perfect bodies you say what's the big deal about this well we live in a world that's obsessed with bodies and all the time I feel sorry for women in our generation because all constantly being barded with you're not you're not good enough you're not thin enough you're not strong enough you're you're not young enough let me to say something right now I refuse to let the world tell me how to look or how to act I'm not going to be controlled by them my self-esteem is controlled by who Jesus thinks I am not what the world thinks I am we cannot be controlled by them and I want you understand in the twinkling of an eye you're gonna have a perfect body and people who don't believe in Jesus will not you're about to get a body a perfect body the other reason we need to believe this understand it is some of us are sick or have handicaps or or there's something wrong and maybe you're discouraged trying to tell you when Jesus returns the entire earth right now is announcing the return of Jesus everything the Bible says what happened at the end is happening right before our eyes the birth pangs are getting extremely intense and what that means is you're just about to get the body that God has promised you and you will be released from all the issues that you're dealing with right now I'm 64 I turned 65 in October I'm really kind of excited about honestly about all the discounts I'm gonna get I've kind of been studying it they want when I turn 65 I'm I'm getting a report or Verte I'm getting a reverse mortgage or walk-in bathtub and a stairlift and I don't care who knows but kind of excited about actually but when you get old you just hurt you can pull a muscle watching TV you just you know you just get oh well I'll tell you one thing pretty quick here I'm gonna get a new body and that new body is gonna be like Jesus let me let me read this scripture to you one more time this is Romans 8:23 we believers also groan even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering we to wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children including the new bodies he's promised us so God has his promise all of us a new body so I worked with a guy when I worked for my uncle my dad was in the appliance business but my uncle was in the appliance business also they owned stores and so I worked for my uncle when I was in college delivering appliances and I wrote in the truck all day long with a guy real nice guy I liked him a lot but I wrote in the truck with him all day so we talked about a lot of stuff I talked to him about the Lord and he was a very non spiritual non religious kind of a person and so I just never made any headway with him and every time I talked about the Lord he just kind of checked out and so one day I just asked him point-blank if you died today do you know where you would go he said well I sure don't want to go to heaven listen why in the world wouldn't you want to go to heaven he said I don't want to float around on a cloud playing a harp for all of eternity that comes from Tom and Jerry cartoons did you know that many people many believers their entire concept of heaven their entire concept of everything related to heaven and eternity comes from movies television cartoons and things like that and has absolutely nothing to do with the Bible so let me say this let me talk let me talk about what the Bible says about our new bodies you need to understand you're about to get a new body okay so what does that body why the resurrection of Jesus was a prototype Jesus was the firstfruits what happened to Jesus when he was resurrected will happen to all of us okay this is first Corinthians 15 now Christ has risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep for since by man came death by man also came the resurrection of the Dead for as in Adam all die even so in Christ all should be made alive but each one in his own order Christ the firstfruits afterward those who are Christ's at his coming then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father when he puts it into all rule and authority and power Jesus is the firstfruits of those raised from the dead what it means is what happened to Jesus when he was resurrected is going to happen to you and the same body that Jesus got the same type of body is the body that you're about to get when Jesus comes you say well what kind of body is it well let's read about it this is Luke 24 as they said these things Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them peace to you but they were terrified and frightened and suppose they were seeing a spirit and he said to them why are you troubled and why do doubts arise in your hearts behold my hands and my feet that it is I myself handle me and see a spirit does not have flesh and bones you see I have when he said this he showed them his hands and feet but while they still did not believe for and marveled he said to them have you any food here so they gave him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb and he took it and ate it in their presence going down to verse 50 he led them out as far as Bethany and he lifted up his hands and blessed them it came to pass while he blessed them that he parted from them and carried up into heaven and they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and we're continually in the temple praising and blessing God amen okay so Jesus was resurrected in so here's what it says about his body it just appeared out of nowhere all the sudden he wasn't there and all of a sudden he was there let me say this how many of you believe that there are angels present here okay we all know that there's angels present in the children's areas because Jesus said they're angels always behold the face my father so guessed our angels are so what we're saying is there's a dimension that we're not a part of right your new body will be a part of every dimension your new body will be physical but it will be supernatural and supranatural your body is going to be unbelievable the second thing it's a physical body that can touch and eat and feel pleasure this is one of the biggest misconceptions that believers have and that is they don't think that they're going to have a body and I'll talk to you about heaven here in just a minute and what happens to believers when they die now verses then you will have a body Jesus this is a very important point Jesus came into the disciples and he said and he just appeared I can't wait to do that to people by the way we won't have a sin nature so that's gonna be kind of bad but the good but but you know just appeared Jesus just appeared scared him to death and then he said come touch me come touch me now this is very important come test me have anything to eat he sit down and ate fish and a honeycomb in their presence let me tell you what this is important Plato is a philosopher that influenced the world and Plato bleeb believed in dualism and dualism believes that all physical matter is evil and everything spiritual as good is called platonic dualism Plato taught this in the early church there were Gnostics they were heretics and John hated him the apostle john hated them and of what he wrote in the New Testament was directed at the Gnostics and the Gnostics taught a heresy called docetism and the docetism heresy came from platonic dualism and they taught jesus did not actually physically come to the earth and when Jesus died on the cross he only appeared to die on the cross so that we could all believe that he died for our sins but he could not have had a physical body because everything physical is evil and everything spiritual is good so he only appeared to have come and when he was resurrected it was a spiritual resurrection and there's a greek word for that is called Bologna it is not true the Bible never teaches that God never teaches that that was the teaching from Plato and the dosages were wrong and John said that Jesus had touched me I want every one of you to handle me you - I am NOT a spirit a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you say I have when you get to heaven when Jesus comes you get a physical body but it's an awesome body it's supernatural it can it can interact with every dimension here's another thing it says about Jesus body it can travel to heaven without a spacecraft or spacesuit he went out as far as Bethany and no airplane no helicopter no balloon no spacecraft your body will be able to travel the universe at the speed of thought that's cool that's cool and a lot of people say well I don't know if I want Jesus to come I just don't uh-huh you know I want to finish the 8th grade I understand I really do understand but a lot of that is just based on we don't get it did you know this did you know that the body that you get when Jesus comes will be greater than any superhero that you've ever read about or seen all of the imaginations of people you're going to be spider-man Superman superwoman yeah everything combined in the image of Jesus Christ it's a pretty awesome deal and your new body is eternal it never dies so this is so the Bible tells us when we get our new bodies there's a couple of places we're told we're getting new bodies 1st Thessalonians 4 I do not want you to be ignorant brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep now when it says fallen asleep people who die are not asleep their bodies are laying down in the ground that's why it says fallen asleep lest you sorrow as others who have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus for this we say to you by the word of the Lord that those who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and thus we shall always be with Lord therefore comfort one another with these words why me says let me ask this question so where is heaven well heavens been moving heaven has been moving Luke 16 Jesus told this story and it wasn't a parable it was a story and Jesus said there was a man named Lazarus who was a beggar and he laid it a rich man's gate and he was sick and wanted help he was so sick that the dogs would come in licked his sores but there was a rich man inside and this man fared sumptuously every day those are Jesus words he fared sumptuously every day but he wouldn't help Lazarus had at his gate and they both died and the angels came and carried Lazarus to Abraham's bosom this was heaven in the Old Testament but the rich man went to hell didn't talk about any angel second in there he went to hell with Hades and so the rich man wakes up in hell he's in torment and he looks across and he sees Abraham and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom and he says father Abraham would you allow Lazarus to touch his finger in some water and come over and touch my tongue because I'm in agony here in these flames and Abraham says no there is a chasm fixed between us and we cannot come over to you and you cannot come over to us they were looking at each other this was show this is heaven and held together in the center of the earth in the Old Testament they were together but there was a chasm fixed between us but that's not we're having is now because he Fijians for says that when Jesus was resurrected he led captivity captive he both descended and ascended he emptied that part of Abraham's bosom in the center of the earth and he took it to the third heaven this is where people who die go now he said well Jimmy how do you know there's a third heaven well the first heaven is the atmosphere around us right now second heaven is what we would call outer space the third heaven is the presence of God the Apostle Paul in 2nd Corinthians 12 says I know a man who 14 years ago I don't know if he was in his body or out of his body but that man was caught up into the third heaven I saw a paradise I saw things that were inexpressible the most articulate man in New Testament history could not describe heaven I saw things that were inexpressible but he calls it paradise Jesus said to the thief on the cross today you're gonna be with me in paradise let me just tell you this wherever God is paradise is and Paul says I went to this indescribable place so when people die today their bodies stay here the dead in Christ their bodies are here we bury them some people say what if they're cremated God can find them he's a big God being fun so whatever happened so whenever people die today their spirits go into the presence of God into the third heaven they're gonna be there until the rapture but when the rapture happens their bodies are reunited with their spirits and they have new glorious bodies okay so let's go now to another Scripture and this describes everything I've just been talking about first Corinthians 15 there's one glory of the Sun and other glory of the Moon and other glory of the stars for one star differs from another in glory so also is the resurrection of the Dead the body is sown buried in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown in dishonor 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 there is a natural body there's also a spiritual body so it is written the first man Adam became a living being the last Adam became a life-giving spirit however the spiritual is not first but the natural and afterward the spiritual the first man was of the earth made of dust the second man is the lord from heaven as was the man of dust also are those who made of dust and as is the heavenly man saw also those who are heavenly and as we have borne the image of the man of dust listen we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God nor does corruption inherit incorruption behold I'll tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of eye at the last trumpet this is the same trumpet was talking about in 1st Thessalonians 4 for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruption must put on incorruption this mortal must put on immortality my father died nine years ago he was 80 years old he had had six cancers over a period of twenty years he had fought cancer all that time and he when he died he had three cancers and they came my dad was real hard-headed and he wouldn't let Hospice come and so finally about four or five days before he died Hospice was coming that's how we knew that how sick he was and he had his body was just ravaged with cancer he had done chemo for years and they came and they gave him a shot of morphine they said Mr Evans don't get up by yourself you know you're under this influence morphine needs somebody to help you go to the bathroom whatever that night he got up and went the bathroom by himself and bro broke both his arms and so when we buried my dad but he was just beat-up riddled both his arms were in a cast I remember looking at him you know in the casket there and I we close the lid and buried him and I thought the next time I see my daddy he's gonna be glorious but my dad was saved the dead in Christ will rise first your dead relatives they're Christians they're going first their spirits are in heaven today will be their bodies will come out of the ground when we bury people we bury people with their heads to the west of Jesus said his coming is going to be like lightning from the east to the west so we bury Christian burials we put their head to the west so when Jesus comes they come up facing Jesus not that Jesus needs our help but we're just trying to help him a little bit here been to a funeral the pastor is always standing at the west side of the casket of the casket when Jesus comes the dead and Christ will be raised first listen there will be a generation of people who never die if you're alive when the rapture happens you're immediately changed the dead in Christ will rise first then we are alive and remain will be caught up that's the word harpazo and the Greek but in the latinus word repair II where I get our word rapture we will be raptured and will be changed in the twinkling of eye in a moment we will become like Jesus and we will get our new bodies incorruptible they will be the same for a trillion years there is no time in heaven I'll talk about that later we only measure that that's limited you don't measure oxygen unless you're scuba diving you have all of it you want we don't measure it we only measure that that's limited but in the in in eternity time is unlimited so you don't measure it doesn't mean anything because it never ends but we will be incorruptible which means when you've been in heaven for a trillion years your body will look exactly the same as it does right now we do television and you know so we I started doing television runs like 40 years old and I go back and look at myself on television and I just think it's just painful it doesn't bless you the problem is the older I get the better cameras get back then cameras are kind of fuzzy and we loved now they're just show everything that's terrible but in heaven we won't be vain in heaven so there won't be mirrors everywhere you won't be in heaven but look at this where's the spoonful I want to show this off anyway so I don't know where that is in the Bible somewhere look at her glorious first Corinthians 15 glorious and Adam and Eve were created naked but it wasn't pornographic the glory of God covered their bodies Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration with Peter James and John and it says their garments were transfigured black the launderer on earth could never get them you won't need makeup or beauty products in heaven you will and by the way there's you don't sleep in heaven because your body never gets tired the Bible says in the New Jerusalem there's neither day nor night because the lamb is its light you'll never get tired you'll always feel fantastic you can run for a hundred years never get tired you can sit up and talk for three thousand years to the same person time has not expired because there's no such thing as time one of one of the worst things on earth is we just don't have time for each other but we will there you'll be able to know everyone you want to know powerful above every force of heaven and earth spiritual and physical multi-dimensional in the image of Christ we put off this this body of death this inglorious corruptible body and we finally get a perfect body perfectly healthy there will never be another funeral we will never experience pain or discomfort that's next week I'm gonna talk about heaven next week experience physical pleasures for eternity Psalm 16:11 says in his right hand are pleasures forevermore never get tired of fatigue never get injured or harmed with our new bodies we will be able to travel at the speed of thought into another dimension of space worship Jesus for a million years with heavens worship music and never get tired and will have perfect voices all of us will be able to win American Idol finally we can travel the world the universe and constantly explore sit and eat and drink for a hundred years and never get for gain weight oh I can't wait for them think about that for just a minute eat forever so let me say this Israel is the Super sign of the end everything begins and ends with Israel and God in Joel 3 told us when the end began and here's what Joel 3 says behold in those days and at that time when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem I will also gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat this is Armageddon and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the nations and they have divided up my land the end times began in 1948 when God gathered Israel from the nations of the world very interestingly two months ago Israel celebrated their 70th anniversary on the day that we moved our embassy to Jerusalem very significant Psalm 90 says the days of a man's life for seventy years or if by reason of strength or eighty years Jesus says this generation that sees the beginning will see the end and I'm not a date setter but I'm just telling you Jesus is coming don't get focused on this thing right here don't get focused on this thing this is a very temporary thing whatever you're dealing with physically whatever people expect of you physically don't you let them put that on you God has given you a body as a temporary vessel to serve Him not to serve the world and when Jesus comes you are going to get the body of a lifetime it'll be the best day of your life bow your heads with me lord I pray for everyone hurting everyone who's sick everyone has a physical issue right now Jesus we believe that you're a healer and even though our full Redemption will happen when you come you have purchased our healing by your stripes were healed and I just pray for the sick and the hurting from the top of their head to the tip of their toes that right now they would feel physically that they would feel your healing virtue flow through their bodies we speak against cancer against arthritis against heart disease against lung disease against blood diseases against kidney problems liver problems intestinal problems gastrointestinal problems digestive problems reproductive problems we speak healing right now in the name of Jesus and we look forward Jesus we look forward to that day when we see you face to face and we get the new bodies that you've promised us and that's our focus we see the things happening that you talked about but rather than being down and discouraged we lift up our heads and we can't wait for our Redemption and to finally see our Redeemer face to face and we thank you for it and bless you for it in Jesus name Amen

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Published: Mon Jul 09 2018