{"id":37186,"date":"2022-09-13T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-there-will-be-no-males-or-females-in-heaven-then-how-will-we-recognize-our-loved-ones\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:27:54","slug":"if-there-will-be-no-males-or-females-in-heaven-then-how-will-we-recognize-our-loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-there-will-be-no-males-or-females-in-heaven-then-how-will-we-recognize-our-loved-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"If there will be no males or females in heaven, then how will we recognize our loved ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Not only will there be no male or female<strong> in heaven<\/strong>, but <strong>no fleshly bodies<\/strong>. 1 John 3:2, &ldquo;Beloved, we are God&rsquo;s children now; it does <strong>not yet appear what we shall be<\/strong>, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.&rdquo;&nbsp;The natural man cannot grasp what spirit, heavenly bodies will be like, but the <strong>characters<\/strong> we have developed and the <strong>personalities<\/strong> for which the Lord chose us in the first place, <strong>will remain the same<\/strong>. And that is truly how we know one another. Just think for a moment. If a person is in costume, very often they are still recognizable because of gestures, word choices, etc. Mary recognized Jesus (when He appeared as a gardener) by a word (John 20:15, 16). The disciples on the road to Emmaus realized they had been talking with Jesus by the way He broke bread (Luke 24:30, 31).<\/p>\n<p>Respecting the <strong>earthly resurrection, men will return very similarly to how they died<\/strong>; therefore, knowing them will not be an issue. As they grow toward perfection, nothing will alter their basic uniqueness. Knowing our loved ones will be no problem!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only will there be no male or female in heaven, but no fleshly bodies. 1 John 3:2, &ldquo;Beloved, we are God&rsquo;s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.&rdquo;&nbsp;The natural man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-there-will-be-no-males-or-females-in-heaven-then-how-will-we-recognize-our-loved-ones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If there will be no males or females in heaven, then how will we recognize our loved ones?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}