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19\\xa0If in Christ we have hope\\xa0in this life only,\\xa0we are of all people most to be pitied. 20\\xa0But in fact\\xa0Christ has been raised from the dead,\\xa0the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21\\xa0For as\\xa0by a man came death,\\xa0by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 1 Corinthians 15:19-21 (ESV)

35\\xa0But someone will ask,\\xa0\\u201cHow are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?\\u201d\\xa036\\xa0You foolish person!\\xa0What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.\\xa037\\xa0And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.\\xa038\\xa0But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.\\xa039\\xa0For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.\\xa040\\xa0There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.\\xa041\\xa0There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. 42\\xa0So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.\\xa043\\xa0It is sown in dishonor;\\xa0it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.\\xa044\\xa0It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.\\xa045\\xa0Thus it is written,\\xa0\\u201cThe first man Adam became a living being\\u201d;\\xa0the last Adam became a\\xa0life-giving spirit.\\xa046\\xa0But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.\\xa047\\xa0The first man was from the earth,\\xa0a man of dust;\\xa0the second man is from heaven.\\xa048\\xa0As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven,\\xa0so also are those who are of heaven.\\xa049\\xa0Just\\xa0as we have borne the image of the man of dust,\\xa0we shall\\xa0also bear the image of the man of heaven. 50\\xa0I tell you this, brothers:\\xa0flesh and blood\\xa0cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.\\xa051\\xa0Behold! I tell you a mystery.\\xa0We shall not all sleep,\\xa0but we shall all be changed,\\xa052\\xa0in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For\\xa0the trumpet will sound, and\\xa0the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53\\xa0For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and\\xa0this mortal body must put on immortality.\\xa054\\xa0When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: \\u201cDeath is swallowed up in victory.\\u201d 55\\xa0\\u201cO death, where is your victory?\\xa0O death, where is your sting?\\u201d 56\\xa0The sting of death is sin, and\\xa0the power of sin is the law.\\xa057\\xa0But thanks be to God,\\xa0who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58\\xa0Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in\\xa0the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord\\xa0your labor is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:35-58\\xa0(ESV)

1. Steadfast in Life

2. Faithfully at Work

3. Hopeful in Death