Saturday, April 23, 2011

HE IS RISEN

          Text: Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
 2And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
 3And they said among themselves, who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
 4And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
 5And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
 6And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

          The Christian faith stands or falls on this event. The resurrection of our Lord. Did Jesus really come back to life? What if he didn't.

          1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
 2By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
 3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
 4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
 5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
 6After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
 7After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
 8And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

          1 Corinthians 15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
 13But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
 14And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
 15Yea, 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.
          If the dead do not rise, the Christian religion is a fraud.

 16For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
 17And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
 18Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
          If there is nothing beyond the grave, our religion has no meaning.

 20But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
          There was no resurrection before Jesus rose.

 21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
          Before the fall in the garden, there wasn't any death.

 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
         
          1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
          There is a decaying process taking place in our bodies in this life. At the resurrection we will be changed. No more pain, sickness or growing old. We will have a spiritual body.

 54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
 55O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
 56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

 57But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

          John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

         

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