Yes, Jesus' resurrection body is significant because it reveals the nature of the new body believers will receive.
Jesus' post-resurrection body provides a tangible example of the glorified body that believers will one day have. Les Feldick teaches that by studying the 40 days of Christ's post-resurrection life, we can understand how we will operate in our new resurrection body. This body is tangible, can eat and drink, yet can also appear and disappear instantly.
Philippians 3:21 — This verse directly states that our vile body will be fashioned like Christ's glorious body, making it central to the significance of His resurrection body.
Scripture reveals that Jesus, after His resurrection, appeared to His disciples in a body that was both tangible and extraordinary. In Luke 24, He suddenly stood among them, alarming them, and then ate and conversed with them. Philippians 3:21 says: 'Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.' Additionally, Romans 8:23 speaks of the adoption, the redemption of our body. These verses show that Christ's resurrection body is the pattern for the believer's future body.
Les Feldick emphasizes that Jesus' resurrection body is a preview of the body every believer will receive. He points out that after His resurrection, Jesus appeared as a normal human, walking and talking with the disciples, yet He could vanish or appear in an instant. This demonstrates that our future resurrection body will be both tangible and supernaturally mobile. Les also connects the resurrection to the completion of our redemption—soul and spirit redeemed now, but the body redeemed at the resurrection, which he calls the adoption.
According to Les Feldick, Jesus' post-resurrection body is the clearest picture of the body believers will receive. He teaches that by studying the 40 days between Jesus' resurrection and ascension, we can understand how we will operate in our glorified body. Jesus appeared normal—walking on two feet, conversing, and eating—yet He could appear and disappear at will, as seen when He vanished from the disciples at Emmaus.
Les teaches that while a believer's soul and spirit are redeemed at salvation, the body still awaits redemption. He calls this the adoption and links it to the resurrection. Jesus' resurrection victory over sin, death, and Satan gives believers the hope of future bodily resurrection and the completion of their redemption. This also ties to creation being delivered from the curse when believers receive their new bodies.
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in the flesh, it's still under the curse. But the very presence of the Holy Spirit in our life as a believer is God's down payment that He's going to complete the whole transaction. He's not just going to redeem the soul and spirit, He's going to redeem body, soul and spirit together.
Post-Resurrection Body as Preview
Les explains that to understand our future resurrected body, one should study Christ's 40 days post-resurrection, where He was glorified.
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And that's why Paul is always teaching, what are we to be looking forward to? Oh, the resurrection of our body. See? Ephesians chapter 3, he makes it so plain that even though we have been redeemed, we've been bought back by the blood of Christ, yet our redemption will not be complete until when we've got that new resurrected body. Always remember that.
How Jesus Operated in His Resurrection Body
Christ's resurrected body looked normal and He walked with disciples, yet He could disappear instantly, providing a glimpse of our new body.
Resurrected Christ as Glorified Lord
After His humiliation and suffering, Jesus in resurrection power became the glorified Lord of glory, and this is the resurrected Christ we know.
Adoption: Redemption of the Body
The adoption is the redemption of the body; God's Holy Spirit is the down payment guaranteeing that our body will one day be resurrected and reunited with soul and spirit.
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But when it comes out in resurrection power, it's going to be a new body, fashioned after Christ's body. Now This has been a mind boggling request of Paul for me for ever so long, but one thing I know, if I don't experience it in this life, I'm going to in the next one, and so are you. Ephesians 1, and let's just look at verse 18, and this is Paul's prayer on behalf of the believers. Ephesians 1.
Characteristics of the Resurrection Body
In His resurrection body, Jesus could eat, drink, converse, be touched, yet also be present in one place and miles away the next, showing the capabilities of our future body.
Philippians 3:21: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
This verse directly connects Christ's glorious resurrection body to the transformation of believers' bodies.
Romans 8:23: And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
This verse identifies the future redemption of the body, which is linked to the resurrection.
Luke 24:36-37: And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
This shows Jesus' sudden appearance in His resurrection body, demonstrating its supernatural nature.
Jesus' resurrection body was tangible and human-like, yet could appear and disappear at will. He could eat and be touched, but also suddenly stand in a room without entering through a door, as seen in Luke 24.
Yes, Les Feldick teaches that believers will be fashioned like Christ's glorious body. By studying His post-resurrection actions, we can understand the capabilities of our future resurrection body—normal yet supernatural.
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