If A Spiritual Body Materializes Does it Become Sin?
Hi Mike,
I was reading the following answer to this email and it inspired a question :
http:// www. iswasandwillbe. com/ Spiritual_ bodies_ materialize. php
When Christ materialized into flesh and bone after his resurrection did he materialize back into sin? Christ condemned sin in the flesh, rose from the dead and then materialized his spiritual body back into sin?
An answer would be great.
Thanks,
M____
Hi again M____,
Thank you for your question. You ask:
When Christ materialized into flesh and bone after his resurrection did he materialize back into sin? Christ condemned sin in the flesh, rose from the dead and then materialized his spiritual body back into sin?
The answer is absolutely not! Christ did not materialize back into sin. Why would we conclude that simply because He appeared in a material body after His resurrection from the dead, He had again become sin? His materializing was from spirit which is capable of appearing in the form of a material body. Everything material is actually formed of “things which do not appear”.
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
He became flesh and bone in several different forms – once in the garden where He appeared to the women, then later that same day to the two men on the road to Emmaus, again later that same evening to the eleven behind closed locked doors, on another day to the eleven with holes in His mutilated body, and again to several of the disciples by the sea side. All of this was done for one reason only, and that was because of their unbelief:
Joh 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
Joh 20:25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
Joh 20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
Joh 20:27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
Joh 20:28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
Joh 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Joh 20:30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:
Joh 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Thomas was no different than the other ten disciples. He had to see to believe, so Christ, being a spirit out of which all is formed, materialized and showed Himself in the form of His mutilated body. Does that mean Christ is forever to live in a mutilated body? How absurd! Of course not! Neither is He forever to have a physical body in any form since His resurrection. Being spirit, it is simply capable of appearing physical. This is the case for all resurrected bodies which are in the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy [ is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
The fact that spirit can materialize when needed, does not change the fact that it is a spiritual body, and it certainly does not follow that it is a “body of sin”.
If anyone believes that Christ appearing in a body of flesh means that it is a body of sin, then they simply have not been given the faith to believe these inspired words:
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Christ was raised from the dead in a spiritual body.
2Ti 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [“a spiritual body”] according to my gospel:
A body which has never been resurrected cannot disappear at will as a spiritual body can. A body which has never been resurrected cannot appear in a locked room and then disappear at will, as did Christ in His resurrected body. As that story of “doubting Thomas” and the other doubting ten apostles demonstrates, a body which “is raised a spiritual body” is capable of materializing at will, but that does not make that “spiritual body” a body of sin, as is any body which has never been “raised a spiritual body”.
Abraham ate with Christ, as did the apostles after His resurrection. Was Christ in a body of sin with Abraham?
Gen 18:1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Gen 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw [ them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
Gen 18:3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Gen 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Gen 18:5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
Gen 18:6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead [ it], and make cakes upon the hearth.
Gen 18:7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave [ it] unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Gen 18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [ it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Jacob wrestled with Christ all night. Was Christ in a body of sin?
Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Gen 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
Gen 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Gen 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
Gen 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Gen 32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Gen 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
I hope this all is of some help.
Your brother in our Lord,
Mike
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