Resurrection Thoughts, Fear, Outreach!

As my pastor preached this morning and he spoke of salvation I began as I most often do to to weigh the words he spoke to that which I know to be true from the Bible.  It was at this point that I had a most startling and fearful thought.   If my pastor had seen my face he may well have thought that I was in pain.  In reality I was... The pain of searing conviction of not serving enough.   I am not sure that I can...

Throughout the Bible we see the work of God and that work reveals the very nature of God.  On this there is no doubt.  That nature is by far the most consistent thing I have ever encountered.   It is the same everytime, all the time.

Now please enduldge me as I share my fearful revelation of thought.  As the pastor spoke of salvation my mind took me to thoughts of the resurrection of the dead.  I have done some research regarding this and I will not deny the fact that I could be wrong.  To be honest I hope that I am.

If you read 1 Corinthians 15 as I have several times today alone you will see the nature of God explained in the resurrection of the dead. 

What I see there is that the very nature of resurrection of that which is dead, is that it becomes new.  New in that it is rebuilt perfect (glorified).  If this is the case and the dead that aren't in Christ, those that are to be ressurected after the believers (Revelation 20:6) and the nature of God in resurrection remains the same as it always has.  Those too will be resurrected with rebuilt perfect (glorified) bodies (1 Corinthians 15:42).  The reason seems to be the proximity to God himself.  All will stand before him and will need that body to withstand it (John 5:29). 

Now you may be saying, so what?  And you would be correct in thinking that at that time it will have little effect on those that have been raised in Christ.   However this is the fear I have.  If those who are not in Christ are raised this way.  Not only are they damned to a perfect (because everything God does is perfect) place of perfect torment (meaning literally the worst possible torment) for eternity, but also they will be condemned with a perfect rebuilt (glorified) body that can feel, perceive, receive, and completely process all of that torment, perfectly.  All the weight, depth, or any other measurement you can fathom cannot begin to contain that torment.  Human bodies currently are broken and fortunately do not react this way to worldly torment and troubles which are obviously no comparison.  To be honest I don't believe I can give proper clarity or weight to what they will go through because there is no comparison.

I do not wish that anyone go through that.  I didn't when I thought they would go through it as they are / were. 

I have been for years now and am now more than ever convinced that we Christians have no alternative but to share the Gospel with every one we come in contact with.  If I had not come to this conclusion, I would have had to question my own salvation.

What about you?

It should be noted that there is no definitive scripture that hammers the fact that the resurrection of those not in Christ will happen that way.  Only the fact of God's consistency in his actions regarding this physical world we live in.  

I will help anyone with evangelism to my fullest extent possible.