While it wasn't bound by the constraints of our earthly bodies, it was still a body with substance. He wasn't just a disembodied spirit. And so we can know that in the resurrection we too will have real bodies. Finally, Selfishness There's no doubt that one of the major motivating factors in our world today is selfishness. Advertising maximises on it.
Political fortunes depend on it.
So when we look to the cross for forgiveness we're drawn away from a focus on ourselves, and on our own importance, to an awareness that all we have, we have by the gift of Jesus Christ. This moving of our focus from ourselves to Christ, is then extended as we look beyond ourselves to those around us who are in the same need of Christ's forgiveness that we were in. And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them. So the result of our experience of the resurrection of Christ is that we begin to love others the way God in Christ has loved us, which of course is the opposite of selfishness. So today as we think again about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, may I invite you to bring him your burdens.