A Triune Work of Resurrection

Triunity of Redemption

The Father sent, the Son went, the Spirit applies.

1 Corinthians 15:1–4 “1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,”

Paul in his letter to the church in Corinth, after many chapters of rebuke and correction lands on the most important truth in human history, The fact of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection. We simply call it the Gospel, which means good news.

Today, I have good news to share with you, Christ is risen!

Before I can get to the glorious truth of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection I must deliver the bad news.

Bad News

Romans 3:10–18 “10 as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one; 11 There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God; 12 All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not even one.” 13 “Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving,” “The poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”; 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood, 16 Destruction and misery are in their paths, 17 And the path of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.””

This is a unique texts in the NT, not because it quotes the old testament but because of the way it quotes the old testament. This passage cites over 7 OT texts and they have something very sobering in common. Mans universal depravity.

Catena, a latin word for chain that refers to “any collection of passages from different authors bearing on a single subject”

F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 303.

Romans: A Commentary on the Book of Romans 3:9–20; b. Diatribe and Catena of Quotations Demonstrating Universal Sin

3:10–18 b) A scriptural catena proving universal unrighteousness

3:10a (1) The citation formula

3:10b (2) The topic sentence adapted from Eccl 7:20* declaring universal unrighteousness

3:11–12 (3) Three doublets declaring universal corruption by the citation, abbreviation, and emendation of LXX Ps 13:1–3*

3:13–14 (4) A quatrain declaring the universal perversion of human communication by the citation of Pss 5:9*; 139:4*; and the emendation of Ps 10:7*

3:15–17 (5) A tricola declaring the violent consequences of universal unrighteousness by the citation and abbreviation of Isa 59:7–8*

3:18 (6) An inclusio concerning the universal failure to fear God in the citation of Ps 35:2*

Father

Galatians 1:1 “1 Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),”

Son

John 10:17–18 “17 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. 18 “No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.””

Holy Spirit

Romans 8:11 “11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”