The Strait and Narrow

Posts Tagged ‘awake’

• Body:

1 Cor.15:44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

Romans 8:10 1And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Eph.2:14-16 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; 15Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; 16And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

• Dead:

1 Cor. 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

Romans 11:1515For if the casting away of them [natural branch] be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Ephesians 2:1,51And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)

 

• Awake:

1 Cor.15:34, 45 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [man] was made a quickening spirit.

Ephesians 2:1, 6 & 5:14 1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Romans 13:11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed

This is only a few parallel scriptures that Paul has related the transformation of the ‘natural’ branch of Israel becoming into the new man the gathering together of both Jews and Gentiles [Ephraim] so that all of Israel shall be saved.

Paul answering the questions of How are the dead raised up, and with what body do they come? He addresses that by using the seed analogy which is the same one that Jesus spoke of as the parable of the soil. In conclusion Paul reveals a mystery that wasn’t known to them [Eph. 3:5)that not all shall sleep. As you can see from the passages above sleep has to do with the lack of knowledge or being blind, being in darkness as Paul also told the saints not to be of the night, but be sober.

1 Thess. 5:4-8
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

This is a way that God plan for the olive tree to be grafted in with wild branches [Gentiles/Ephraim] that which was onces cut off to also the grafted into the olive tree again, so that all those that sleep might be awaken to the truth in Christ. Both Romans and Ephesians reveal this mystery and I would conclude that 1 Corinthians is as well.