IMMORTALITY: NOT IN RESURRECTION BODY

Some were at sea from yesterday's article, whether having new bodies in Christ meant we are already in the resurrection era. No. Your immortal body now in Christ, is not in the glory of resurrected bodies. At the return of our Lord and Brother Jesus the Christ, the two families (in heaven and earth - Ephesians 3:15) will be united. For those who slept, they will resurrect but those of us alive will be changed in the glory of our bodies so that we are all in the same state of glory. That is not to impart immortality, but a change of glory from terrestrial to celestial (1 Corinthians 15:40). The English rendering of "vile" body in the verse above carries that fabric of thought that sees no good in the physical body but in the Greek, it is "tapeinosis" referring to something of a lower glory that should be upgraded to the same glory as His. As far as your immortality is concerned, you woke up to it through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:10), it is not awaiting you in the resurrection.