6. The next thing that we are taught about _the resurrection body_
is that it _is a glorious body_. This comes out in the first part of
the following verse, I Cor. 15:43, +"It is sown in dishonour; it is
raised in glory."+ Some idea of the glory, the glorious beauty,
of that body is suggested by the representation of our glorified Lord
that we have in Rev. 1:13-17: +"And in the midst of the candlesticks
one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot
and girt about the breasts with a golden girdle. And his head and his
hair were white as white wool, white as snow, and his eyes were as a
flame of fire and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been
refined in a furnace, and his voice as the voice of many waters. And
he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a
sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in
his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead, and
he laid his right hand upon me saying, Fear not; I am the first and the
last."+ Our resurrection bodies will be like that.
7. Furthermore, _our resurrection bodies will be powerful_, or as we
read in the last half of this same verse (1 Cor. 15:43), +"It is
sown in weakness, it is raised in power."+ Then all our weariness
and weakness will be forever at an end. In our present bodies our
bodies are oftentimes a hindrance to our highest aspirations, they
thwart the carrying out of our loftiest purposes, we cannot put into
execution our loftiest purposes, +"the spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak."+ But in our resurrection bodies the body will be
able to accomplish all that the spirit purposes. The redeemed body will
be a perfect counterpart of the redeemed spirit that inhabits it. No
deafness, dimsightedness nor blindness, no tired hands and feet, no
maimed soldier boys coming home from the war.
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