1 Corinthians 15:35-58

35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?" 36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; 37 and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. 47 The first manis from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. 

The Mystery of Resurrection

50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written,

"DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. 55 "O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?" 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. NASU

Colossians 1:18

He is the head of the body, the church,

who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. 

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Romans 1:18-32

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.

20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. 

24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. 

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There isone body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling;

5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 

Ephesians 4:4-6, NASU

​Matthew 16:18-19

I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven." NASU

Titus 1:15-16

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed. NASU

Acts 2:36-47

36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." 

37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" 

38 Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call." 

40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation."

41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. 

42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. 43 Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. 44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need. 

46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people.

And the Lord added to the churchdaily those who were being saved.   NKJV

Genesis 2

2 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. 
4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;

6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. 

7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 

Life in God's Garden

8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

9 And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden,

and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria.

The fourth river is the Euphrates. 
15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." 
18 And the Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."

19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam

to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field.

But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept;

and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 
23 And Adam said: 

"This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." 

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. NKJV

And He answered and said to them,

"Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made themmale and female'  

Matthew 19:4, NKJV

2 Timothy 4:1-5

I solemnly charge you

in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus

who is to judge the living and the dead

and by His appearing and His kingdom

preach the word

be ready in season and out of season

reprove

rebuke

exhort

with great patience

and instruction

For the time will come

when they will not endure sound doctrine

but wanting to have their ears tickled

they will accumulate for themselves

teachers in accordance to their own desires

and will turn away their ears from the truth

and will turn aside to myths

But you 

be sober in all things 

endure hardship

do the work of an evangelist

fulfill your ministry

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Genesis 1:1-27

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness

was on the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good;

and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.

So the evening and the morning were the first day. 
6 Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,

and let it divide the waters from the waters."

7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters

which were under the firmament from the waters

which were above the firmament;

and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven.

So the evening and the morning were the second day. 
9 Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place,

and let the dry land appear";

and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth,

and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas.

And God saw that it was good. 
11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed,

and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth";

and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind,

and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

13 So the evening and the morning were the third day. 
14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens

to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons,

and for days and years;

15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth";

and it was so.

16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day,

and the lesser light to rule the night.

He made the stars also.

17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,

18 and to rule over the day and over the night,

and to divide the light from the darkness.

And God saw that it was good.

19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 
20 Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures,

and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."

21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves,

with which the waters abounded, according to their kind,

and every winged bird according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply,

and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 
24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind:

cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind";

and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind,

cattle according to its kind,

and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind.

And God saw that it was good. 
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;

let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,

over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

27 So God created man in His own image;

in the image of God He created him;

male and female He created them.  NKJV

John 1:1-14

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 

John's Witness: The True Light

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.

8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. 

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

The Word Becomes Flesh

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,

and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,

full of grace and truth. NKJV

Matthew 1:18-23

18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly. 

20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins." 

22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:

23 "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son,

and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us." 

​​​​​He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

Simon Peter answered and said,

"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God"

Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah,

for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,

but My Father who is in heaven. 

I also say to you that you are Peter (Petros – small stone)

and on this rock           (Petra - large foundational rock)

I will build My church”  (Kingdom, Body - Colossians 1:18)

Matthew 16:15-19        (Kingdom - verse 19)

​1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Verse 4

“… and that Rock        (Petra-large foundational rock)  was Christ”


Thus, we know Who built the church of Christ!


So, The Question You Need To Ask Is – Who Built The Rest? 


Hint #1: Satan doesn't hate 'religion'. He invented all but 'one'.  Hint #2: Satan doesn't hate 'churches'. He built all but 'one'. 

Now, you can spin the wheel or roll the dice and hope you miss them all! Luck has nothing to do with it!

Or,

Now, you can simply make the right choice and be added by God to the one religion and church Jesus established and built!

What makes sense? And equally, luck has nothing to do with it either!

​Speak Where The Bible Speaks -  Be Silent Where It Is Silent

1 Corinthians 15:20-28

20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.

21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.

22 For asin Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming,

24 then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

27 For HE HAS PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET. But when He says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. 28 When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all. NASU

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​​​​Point of Clarification

19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven." NASU

"whatever you bind on earth

shall have been boundin heaven 

and

whatever you loose on earth

shall have been loosed in heaven." 

The above sounds like Christ was giving Peter ultimate authority to do 'whatever' he wants regarding 'whatever' and 'whenever'

Not so, and a very simple grammatical point will illustrate that. I have used the New American Standard Updated (NASU) version here as it best translates/represents the original Greek. 

'bind on earth'  is present tense accompanied with the 'where'  (earth)

'shall have been bound' is past tense accompanied with the 'where' (heaven)

and

​'loose on earth'  is present tense accompanied with the 'where'  (earth)

'shall have been loosed in heaven'  is past tense accompanied with the 'where'  (heaven)

Bottom Line: Peter, along with anybody who reads it, is being told by Jesus that whatever he (Peter) might do through the Holy Spirit (binding or loosing), would only be what was already approved/ordained in heaven. That's how past tense works in relation to present or future tense for that matter. In other words,'shall have been (already) bound in heaven' and 'shall have been (already) loosed in heaven'.

Further, the proof is in the pudding. Even Jesus did not work 'ad-hoc', 'off-the-cuff' or frankly, 'fly by the seat of one's pants' or 'make up the rules as you go' sort-of-thing. 

For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. 50 I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."   John 12:49-50   NASU

Frankly, if what Jesus said to all of us' so clearly, doesn't 'cut it', then the problem isn't with the hearing as one shall hear but not understand. The problem is with the heart. It's not a case of a 'transplant'but an 'implant'.

"... in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls". James 1:21, NASU.

'Receive' (Greek: dechomai) means 'accept' and is used literally and figuratively.

'Implanted' (Greek: emphutos) also means 'engrafted ' and in James 1:21 and is used here 'figuratively'. Used especially of ideas or principles: deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held. Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, ingrained, planted. "Engrafted " is primarily associated with the metaphor of grafting in horticulture. That's where a branch or shoot is inserted into a different plant so that they grow together as one. In surgery it refers to 'living tissue' being grafted with 'other living tissue' to become one. Now think of Hebrews 4:12.

​Hebrews 4:12-13

12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.   NASU

Remember, the Word is part of the armor of God. Ephesians 6:12, " And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God ". NKJV

Now think of living scripture as being God-Breathed... 2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is God-breathedand is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. NIV

And as Jesus warned the Jews, Scribes, Pharisees who opposed Him, of their hypocrisy

"You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.  40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life ". John 5:39-40, NKJV

God is our/your life support. 

Acts 17:24-31

God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

28 for in Him we live and move and have our being,

as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.' 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising.

30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead." NKJV

Unplug yourself from God or don't get plugged into Him and His Word and where then, is your life-support? Or, to put it another way, what choice are you making, while indeed you have opportunity to make it? Further, if you abandon that 'power' to somebody else, is that the best thing to do? Let Christ be your power of attorney.

Romans 6:3-11

Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

(My note: Baptize in Greek 'baptidzo' means only 'immerse/submerge'. 'Sprinkle' in Greek is 'rhantize' and is never used in the New Testament for scriptural baptism e.g. Acts 2:38; 22:16. Ephesians 4:4-6 says there is only 'one' baptism. Best to give that some serious thought. God did.

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. NKJV

​Without God, Jesus, Holy Spirit we are empty tombs, dead as we walk. With them live for this life and the next.

To re-iterate, it cannot be overstated, even Jesus did not allow Himself to make changes 'on the fly'.

​For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. 50 I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."   John 12:49-50   NASU

"Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."  Luke 22:42, NKJV

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And behold, one of those who were with Jesus reached and drew out his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear. 52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword ".

53 Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?

54 How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?"  Matthew 26:51-54, NASU​

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