03-31-24 Easters Inportence 1 Cor 15:12-23
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Intro: why should we look foreword to Easter.
Spring?
Candy?
Cleaning?
What about Jesus.
? Why is Easter Impotent?
Trans: we will see the impotence by looking at without and with reassertion
Without The Resurrection
Without The Resurrection
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
Sadducee Didn't believe in any Resurrection
external testimony of the resurrection
Joephus (ad 37-100)
Sutonius (ad 70-160)
Pliny (61-113)
The Jew Explanation
The Leagon Embarrassment
If Christ was not Raisin!
Preaching is Kenos= Its pointless
Our Faith= Empty
We have a False Testimony about God
16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
Our Faith is= Worthless
We are still in our Sins.
Romans 4:25 “25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.”
If what we believe only gives us hope for this life then we are in trouble
Psalm 103:15–16 “15 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; 16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.”
Ill: Houdini claimed that on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, he would come back from the dead. So on that date, a group of his followers gathered around his grave in San Francisco, waiting for him to return. They waited and waited and waited. Then they went home
Jon Courson, Jon Courson’s Application Commentary (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2003), 1087.
Tran: seeing that without the resurrection the lack of hope we have
With The Ressurection
With The Ressurection
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
First fruits= in Ex used in the sense of a preliminary installment of what will be both an example and a guarantee of more to come
One Man disobedience =Death
Romans 5:12 “12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—”
The other man Obedience= Resurrection
Philippians 2:8 “8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”
Romans 5:15 “15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.”
24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
Matthew 13:41–43 “41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, 42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.”
The last enemy is death.
Ill:Unlike Houdini Jesus Is coming soon.
Tran: looking at the difference what dose this mean for us?
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
Romans 6:5–9 “5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.”