But for Jesus, death was not the end of the story. And because of Jesus, it is not the end of the story for you and me either. Jesus was raised to life, and through him, we too are raised to a bold and fresh and glorious new life eternal life. Maybe we tend to limit our concept of eternal life to the future because the words eternal life sound like something we don t yet have. After all, we are still mortal, and we know we are going to die before we receive immortality.
Immortality refers to our physical bodies.
At the resurrection, our mortal bodies will be changed to immortal. But eternal life or the life of the age to come is something we entered the moment we became believers. When we became believers, we passed from death to life. We entered into the new life, the life of the age to come. That life, which is a life of joy and self-sacrificial love in the power of God, will fill all the universe after Jesus returns.