I. The Specific Focus of Our Text
II. The Biblical Location of Our Text
III. The History of Redemption and Our Text

I. In the Old Testament
II. In Christ
III. Each and Every Day

THE LAST JUDGMENT
… Then all men will personally appear before this great Judge, both men and women and children, that have been from the beginning of the world to the end thereof, being summoned by the voice of the archangel and by the sound of the trumpet of God. For all the dead shall be raised out of the earth, and their souls joined and united with their proper bodies in which they formerly lived. As for those who shall then be living, they shall not die as the others, but be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and from corruptible become incorruptible. Then the books (that is to say, the consciences) shall be opened, and the dead judged according to what they shall have done in this world, whether it be good or evil. Nay, all men shall give an account of every idle word they have spoken, which the world only counts amusement and jest; and then the secrets and hypocrisy of men shall be disclosed and laid open before all …

I. Exposition
II. Refutation
III. Application

I. Who He Is
II. Our Marriage to Him
III. The Worship We Bring Him
 

THE LAST JUDGMENT
… Then all men will personally appear before this great Judge, both men and women and children, that have been from the beginning of the world to the end thereof, being summoned by the voice of the archangel and by the sound of the trumpet of God. For all the dead shall be raised out of the earth, and their souls joined and united with their proper bodies in which they formerly lived. As for those who shall then be living, they shall not die as the others, but be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and from corruptible become incorruptible. Then the books (that is to say, the consciences) shall be opened, and the dead judged according to what they shall have done in this world, whether it be good or evil. Nay, all men shall give an account of every idle word they have spoken, which the world only counts amusement and jest; and then the secrets and hypocrisy of men shall be disclosed and laid open before all …

David J. Engelsma: “It is helpful in explaining this change to know that the Greek word that the KJV translates as natural in 1 Corinthians 15:44-46 is literally soulish. The distinction in the passage is between a body that is animated merely by the soul and a body that is animated by the spirit. A body that is animated merely by the soul is fitted to live an earthly life. This was Adam in paradise. Had Adam not fallen, this would have been the life of the human race. A body that is spiritual is a body that is fitted to live a higher, better, more glorious life—a heavenly life. This is the higher, better, more glorious life of the body that Jesus acquired for himself by his death and resurrection. His bodily life is spiritual because his body is spiritual in nature. It is still a real, substantial, genuinely human body, but its substance is not ‘soulish’ but spiritual. Sharing in the quality of his body in the resurrection, the elect too will undergo the change from their formerly ‘soulish’ bodies to spiritual bodies. They will be fitted to live the new, different, better, more glorious heavenly lives” (The Church’s Hope: The Reformed Doctrine of the End – The Coming of Christ [Grand Rapids, MI; RFPA, 2022], p. 129)

I. Everyone Without It
II. One With It
III. Many With It

I. Civil Imagery
II. Family Imagery

THE LAST JUDGMENT
… Then all men will personally appear before this great Judge, both men and women and children, that have been from the beginning of the world to the end thereof, being summoned by the voice of the archangel and by the sound of the trumpet of God. For all the dead shall be raised out of the earth, and their souls joined and united with their proper bodies in which they formerly lived. As for those who shall then be living, they shall not die as the others, but be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and from corruptible become incorruptible. Then the books (that is to say, the consciences) shall be opened, and the dead judged according to what they shall have done in this world, whether it be good or evil. Nay, all men shall give an account of every idle word they have spoken, which the world only counts amusement and jest; and then the secrets and hypocrisy of men shall be disclosed and laid open before all …

Charles Hodge on I Corinthians 15 in A Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians:

[1] “The Resurrection of the Dead. In treating this subject the apostle first proves the fact of Christ’s resurrection, vs. 1-11. He thence deduces, first, the possibility, and then the certainty of the resurrection of his people, vs. 12-34. He afterwards teaches the nature of the resurrection, so far as to show that the doctrine is not liable to the objections which had been brought against it, vs. 35-58″ (p. 308).

[2] “Nature of the resurrection body, vs. 35-58. Having proved the fact of the resurrection, the apostle comes to illustrate its nature, or to teach with what kind of bodies the dead are to rise. It seems that the great objection against the doctrine [of the general resurrection] in the minds of his readers rested on the assumption that our future bodies are to be of the same nature with those which we now have [cf. v. 35]; that is, natural bodies consisting of flesh and blood, and sustained by air, food and sleep. Paul says this is a foolish assumption. Our future bodies may be material and identical with our present bodies, and yet organized in a very different way” (p. 341).

I. What?
II. By Whom?
III. For Whom?