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The Hope of the Resurrection
1 Cor 15:12-58
The hope of the resurrection changes our lives this side of heaven.
Start living in hope today.
I.
The Importance of the Resurrection v.1-19
A. Certainty – The Bible takes more effort to prove the
resurrection of Jesus than anything else.
1) Acts 1:3 says that he showed himself the apostles by
“Many infallible proofs.”
2) First, he was seen by Peter then by the rest of the
Apostles.
i) Nothing else could have explained their radical
change in behavior.
ii) No one else knew Jesus better than they didn’t.
It
couldn’t have been some imposter pretending to be
Jesus.
3) Then he was seen by 500 witnesses at once.
i) It couldn’t have been a hallucination.
ii) When Paul was writing this letter, hundreds of these
people were alive to vouch for it.
4) He was seen by those who previously doubted him.
i) James and Jesus’ other brothers never believed in
him before.
(John 7:5)
ii) After this encounter, James becomes one of the
leaders of the church in Acts.
5) So, why does the prove historically that Jesus rose from
the grave?
The Bible just assumes other things in
history.
B. No Resurrection, No gospel
1) There were those in Corinth who believed that there
would be no resurrection from the dead.
“ 12  Now if
Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,
how say some among you that there is no
resurrection of the dead?”
They believed the soul
would go on living forever, but that once the body was
dead, that was it.
i) This was popular in Greek thinking.
ii) It’s popular in our thinking.
Most people in America
think there is some sort of after-life.
2) There’s a problem with that.
Paul says, “We preached
and you believed that Christ bodily rose from the dead,
but some of you believe there will be no resurrection of
the dead.”
3) But you can’t have one without the other.
15:13, “But if
there be no resurrection of the dead, then is
Christ not risen:”
i) If Christ didn’t rise from the dead there is no life in
Christ, and our faith is useless.
15:14-15 “And if
Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain,
and your faith is also vain.
15  Yea, and we are
found false witnesses of God; because we have
testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom
he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.”
Faith in a dead Christ gains you nothing: no
forgiveness, no grace, no righteousness.
V.17 “ 17  And
if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are
yet in your sins.”
Faith is powerful even to the
moving of mountains, but only if Jesus is alive.
ii) If there is no resurrection, then we and all of our
loved ones are lost.
15:18 “ 18  Then they also which
are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.”
C. Christianity is only worth as much as the gospel is true.
It is
only worth as much as the certainty of the resurrection.
1) 15:19 says, “If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”
i) Notice that our hope shouldn’t even be in the
blessing Jesus gives us in this world.
ii) If I have no hope of resurrection, I am the most
miserable, pitiful man in the world.
Without a
resurrection, none of this is worth following.
The
Bible says so itself, 15:32, “If after the manner of
men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what
advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us
eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.”
iii) One preacher said this, “Christianity is not a
system of good advice, and the preachers had
not simply told people of a good way to live.
They had said that something happened; God
raised up Christ.
Christianity is basically a
gospel, the good news of what God has done.”
Everything else flows out of that.
2) The importance of the resurrection is that it is the
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