Trusting In A Risen Savior: The Third Day He Rose Again From The Dead (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)s

1 Corinthians 15:3–4 (ESV)

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

I. Introduction: No Apologetics Today II. It’s Not About The Evidence III. Results of the Resurrection

I. Introduction: No Apologetics Today

Two Audiences: Unbelieving Believers and Believing Unbelievers

Unbelieving Believers: The Evidence They Had

Jesus accurately predicts and describes his death

Matthew 17:22 (ESV)

As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,

Reactions

1. Nobody Checks

2. Nobody stayed for the funeral

3. Those who do not hide, flee

4. Every single disciple, when confronted with the resurrection, reacts with doubt

John 21:25 (ESV)

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

Mark 16:10–11 (ESV)

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.

John 20:29 (ESV)

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Believing Unbelievers

The Jewish Authorities

The Roman Guards

The Evidence They Had

Matthew 28:4 (ESV)

And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.

II. It’s Not About The Evidence

III. Results of the Resurrection

Christ’s Resurrection is a summary of the entire Gospel

Acts 1:21–23 (ESV)

So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.” And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.

Acts 4:2 (ESV)

greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 4:33 (ESV)

And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Christ’s Resurrection Activates the Gospel

Romans 4:25 (ESV)

who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Christ’s Resurrection verifies God’s saving work

Acts 17:31 (ESV)

because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Christ’s Resurrection is a Down Payment on Our Resurrection

Romans 8:11 (ESV)

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.

Romans 1:4 (ESV)

and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

1 Corinthians 15:20 (ESV)

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:49 (ESV)

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Christ’s Resurrection is the Death of Death

1 Corinthians 15:26–27 (ESV)

The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.

1 Corinthians 15:54–57 (ESV)

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 6:4 (ESV)

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

1 Peter 1:3 (ESV)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Christ’s Resurrection sets the purpose and goal and end for our lives

Philippians 3:10 (ESV)

that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,