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Am I going to be resurrected like Jesus?

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. 1 Corinthians 15:12-19

This is an important teaching of the Gospel today. If Christ did not rise from the dead, establishing a precedent for our bodies after we die, then everything we’ve been taught is garbage. So, yes, we are going to have our bodies, yet these bodies will not be our current physical bodies which break, decay and die, but resurrected bodies that are imperishable. 1 Corinthians 15:50

            Yes, everyone will be resurrected.  Everyone will receive an eternal body.

When the women and the apostles came to the grave of Jesus Christ, they found His body was gone. Where was it?  It had been resurrected.

When Jesus appeared to over 500 people to show them that He had been resurrected, He came to show all of us what kind of bodies we would have in heaven.

These resurrected bodies are physical in the sense that you can touch, feel, and sense them, yet they are eternal. They look like us yet they are the perfect, eternal version of ourselves.

Jesus walked around for forty days with his resurrected body to show everyone what the future holds.  We will all be resurrected one day.  Just have faith!

However, not everyone who is resurrected will be in heaven.

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”  Matthew 25:46

            Some will take that new body to heaven and some to hell.

(Read 1 Corinthians 15 for a complete description of the resurrection)