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.... with the Winner
My son Josh, and he gave me permission to tell this story.
When he was a little fellow, on Saturday night we'd be watching Hockey Night in Canada, and he'd come upstairs, he seemed to always have to go to the bathroom often on Saturday night.
I don't know why that is, but he'd come upstairs and try and sneak a peak at the TV to see what was going on, as far as the hockey was going.
And he'd come up and he'd go, I'd say to him, "Josh", who you voting for".
He'd say, "Who's playing?" "The Leafs and the Canadiens".
There's a a bit of tension in our house on that one.
He'd say, "Who's winning".
I'd say, "That doesn't matter, who do you cheer for?"
He'd say, "Well, who's winning?"
He wanted to be on side with the winner.
We see how winner react.
The Jays win the series back to back.
The big parades running down the street.
The Mayor handing over the key to the City.
The crowds so excited.
Don't we just love it to see our Mayor or Premier giving a jersey to the Governor of whatever State we beat, and he have to put it on and raise our flag on his pole.
Don't we just love to see that, as winners.
We like to see all of that, ah that victory, the smell of victory.
Ah, there is a real smell of victory in I Corinthians 15, beginning at verse 50, that I'd like to read with you.
And Paul says, "I declare to you brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable."
I can still hear the pages flipping, so I'll slow down.
"Listen, I'll tell you a mystery; we will all not sleep, but we will all be changed.
In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable and the mortal with the immortality.
And when the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true, `Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death is your victory, where O death is your sting'.
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law, but thanks be to God who gave us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, stand firm, let nothing move you, always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord.
Because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.
This section is all about the resurrection, this is all about hope.
This is all about the we win part, that there is an end.
The context?
Where is Paul talking about this, in Corinth, sin City.
He's talking about a city that's just rampant with theology.
Everybody's believing whatever they want to believe, weaving it all together.
He's talking to a city where even the Christians are challenged with sin, because it's so rampant around them.
Does this sound like anywhere we know?
It sounds alot like our context.
Where people are worshipping money, and people are worshipping all kinds of other things other than God, and Paul's speaking into this context to say.
"Wait a minute, we have hope in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We have victory, in Jesus.
This is a kind of rhetorical question?
Who wants to be a Winner?
We know what it's like to be on a losing time.
The last two years I played softball I was on a losing team.
I didn't like it.
At the end of the year when we weren't was up to snuff, I didn't like it.
I wanted to be a winner.
I wanted to be there on championship day.
I wanted to be a winner, whether I played chess or checkers or board games.
It's fun to pay.
It's not whether you win or lose or how you play the game ... sure.
That's by people who always lose, that's their saying.
Or video games.
I watch my kids, "Aaahh, I made it to level 12 and almost made it to level 13, but aaahh".
Don't we anticipate greater things when we have a winning record.
When you're out there and you're doing really well, don't you expect to continue to do well.
When your hockey team is at the top of the standings, the next game you go with the anticipation that they're going to ... win - be the victor.
Does the winner behave like a loser?
Can you imagine, Joe Carter pop out that ball, it goes out, home run, we win, and everybody stays in their seat ummm.
Christians sometimes behave like the loser.
We walk around with our heads a little lower.
We're afraid to speak up sometimes.
We're not behaving like the winners.
We win.
We're on the winning side.
We're part of the winning team.
The victory is won.
We've got some battles to go through.
But we already know the score at the end of the game.
We're on the winning team.
So how do we claim this victory.
Let's look back at these passages to see what it means to claim the victory.
Let's first look at the great transformation that takes place.
Beginning at verse 50 again, it says, "Now, I say this again brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
Nor does corruption inherit corruption".
Flesh and blood is not the victor.
These bodies aren't where the victory is housed, is anchored.
The victory is in the incorruptible and it's not on our own.
This flesh and blood can do so many things, but man's effort is goodness.
But God's effort in us is holiness.
Where God makes us incorruptible, where God lifts us up, where God builds us imperishable.
Corruption does not inherit perfection or holiness, corruption inherits the grave.
It's the holiness of God, it's that knaughing not yet in our soul It's that reborn Christian, it's that new being that's inside of us that inherits the kingdom.
Verse 51, "Behold, I tell you a mystery.
We shall not all sleep but we shall be changed".
Now everybody, that's gotta drop to mind that little phrase you all see in the nursery right, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
But this is talking about God's timing.
It's God saying, "Hey, Christian, not all of you are gonna pass away.
This generation may, and the next generation may.
Paul didn't know when it was written what was gonna happen.
But not all Christians are gonna pass away before the time comes, before the Lord comes again, like a thief in the night.
So anybody who can give you the date and set it down and hammer it in for you, some cultish religion or such, they can tell you the date.
By mere fact that they tell you the date they're wrong.
Because it's in God's time.
Not by man's time.
And at that date, we will be changed.
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed."
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