would have had to eat and wear clothing and would have got old as time went by.

Ladies and gentlemen, please think about it. Dead people in their coffins sometimes come back to life. Could such a person continue living without food? Because if such a person had the same body as he had before death, he would have had to eat food and to wear clothing.

Mary Magdalene, who saw the last moment of Jesus’ life, did not recognize him when she met him again in the grave three days after his death (John 20:14). If she could not recognize him just three days after his death, do you think he was still the same as he had been before he died? We have to know that his appearance must be changed after he died.

Jesus appeared on a road to the hometown of two young men who had followed him but were frustrated by Jesus’ death. However, they could not recognize him (Luke 24:16). How could they not recognize Jesus, whom they had seen only days earlier? They were not able to recognize him as the resurrected Jesus. These examples show that Jesus’ appearance had changed after his resurrection.

While the disciples were talking about Jesus, he stood among them without having entered through a door and said to them, “Peace be with you” (Luke 24:36). Before he died, he would have had to open the door to enter the house. But he was changed.

Jesus was supposed to go back to heaven after his resurrection. But if he still lived inside his body, he would not have been able to go up to heaven.

We are getting older every day, aren’t we? Then, can our bodies live forever? We are going to die. We are going to perish. Jesus came to this world as a man to open the way to transform us from perishable to imperishable. If Jesus went up to heaven with his body, which was perishable, Christians also can go up to heaven with their body. But heaven is not accessible with the perishable body.

Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). This is the true meaning of the resurrection. Jesus also said, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die” (John 11:25-26). He did not mean