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The Lord has John explain that the followers of Christ were not just called children of God; He actually became their Father because of His love and the salvation He provides, not their wisdom or righteous living. We are not just “brothers and sisters in Christ;” but we are permanently bound together as brothers and sisters, united by Christ with new responsibilities, mutual accountability, and obligations. The Church of Jesus Christ is a collective society that shares in the life and last days because we have the benefit of being united to Jesus through His death, burial, and resurrection.

While everyone is a child of God in the sense that we owe our lives to Him, we can only become His children in the intimate and loving sense of reentering His collective society of shalom only by an act of God's initiating grace and the response of faith in our hearts. This is not something any one of us can do alone; we are meant to and can only share His peace together. This is the new family we invite all who are unchurched into.

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In this episode, titled “Coming Attractions” from 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, God has Paul address the notion some had that there is no such thing as the resurrection. In fact, he writes that if no one can rise from being dead, then Jesus is not alive. If Jesus is still dead, then Paul and anyone who makes disciples is doing so in vain. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then all who follow Him are still guilty of sin and subject to the penalty of our sin, which is death.

Jesus was born at the right time and died at the right time to provide salvation to us before it was too late. Being born as a man was the only way for Him to enter into death and show He has power there as well and bring us back into His shalom. The next time He comes, it will be to resurrect all who died in Him to life in the flesh. In a broken world of pain, problems, and hurting people, it is not just good news, but it is the best news to know that death is not the end. Death began as a consequence of sin, and was something we dreaded, but because of Jesus, it is a welcomed friend because everything that has been touched by sin has to die, but those who are in Jesus will get to live forever in flesh that will never die.

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