This life we have in the flesh is but a vapor, and we are admonished to not see Him anymore after the flesh. When we are raised incorruptible, will we not be in the Spirit and be forever with the Lord.
The Spirit, although this flesh cannot see it, is more literal or real than the flesh, which will fade away. Gods word is spirit, Jesus when He was resurrected was received back to the glory He had before He humbled Himself to this earth. The spirit is literal and more true than the flesh and its carnal ways.
The Spirit is more real and true than any fleshly thing can be. The flesh is what we can see with these fleshly eyes and this carnal mind, but the Spirit goes beyond the flesh and into faith, in things which cannot be seen and yet when His Spirit is in us, becomes more real than what we see with the flesh. It is like, when I look and see my hand, I know it is there, because I see it. Yet the Spirit is more real than this, because His Spirit has witnessed to our spirit, and goes past the physical and into spiritual truth that the world cannot receive.
(1Co 15:49) And as we bore the image of the earthy man, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
(1Co 15:50) And I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
(1Co 15:51) Behold, I speak a mystery to you: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed.
(1Co 15:52) In a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet; for a trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.
(1Co 15:53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
(1Co 15:54) But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the Word that has been written, "Death was swallowed up in victory." Isa. 25:8
(1Co 15:55) "O death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?" Hos. 13:14
(1Co 15:56) Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law;
(1Co 15:57) but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
(1Co 15:58) So that, my beloved brothers, you be firm, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.
Thanks be to our Lord, who has swallowed up death and the power of sin, which is the law, who has given us victory. Now is the day of our Lord, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. It is incredible how many times this was spoken by our Lord. Physical (literal) eyes and physical (literal) ears, cannot see or hear the things of God, for they are spiritual. Yet what do they teach, nothing but literal, literal and literal.
(Psa 18:21) For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
(Psa 18:22) For all His judgments were before me, and I did not turn away His statutes from me.
(Psa 18:23) For I was upright with Him and kept myself from my guilt.
(Psa 18:24) And Jehovah has returned to me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes.
(Psa 18:25) With the merciful You reveal Yourself as merciful; with an upright man You reveal Yourself as upright;
(Psa 18:26) with the pure You reveal Yourself as pure; and with the perverting ones You appear perverse;
(Jer 51:60) So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.
(Jer 51:61) And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon and shall see and shall cry all these words,
(Jer 51:62) then you shall say, O Jehovah, You have spoken against this place to cut it off so that no dweller shall be in it, from man to animal, but it shall be a ruin forever.
(Jer 51:63) And it shall be, when you have finished crying this book, you shall tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates.
(Jer 51:64) And you shall say, In this way Babylon shall sink and shall not rise from the evil that I am bringing on her. And they shall be weary. So far are the words of Jeremiah.
This flesh and carnal mind has brought nothing but trouble, this is what is crucified daily, to die, the Spirit is what gives me life, and life more abundantly. Jesus is the resurrection, the life, the way, the truth. To die to this beastly self and let Him live is what it's all about, ain't it?
God bless,
Gary