Not Forgetting the Gospel

1 Corinthians 15

📖 1 Corinthians 15:1–2 (ESV) Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

False Gospel #1. The “ ” Gospel

📖 Luke 19:10 (ESV) For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

📖 Colossians 3:15 (ESV) let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts…

📖 1 Peter 3:15 (ESV) but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy

False Gospel #2. The “ ” Gospel

False Gospel #3. The “ ” Gospel

📖 Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

📖 Matthew 12:33 (ESV) “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

False Gospel #4. The “ ” Gospel

📖 Matthew 5:48 (ESV) You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

False Gospel #5. The “ ” Gospel

Understanding the Gospel:

1. Christ the of the .

📖 Matthew 5:17 (ESV) “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.”

📖 Romans 10:4 (ESV) For Christ is the end (telos – goal) of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

2. Christ the of God.

📖 Isaiah 53:6 (ESV) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

📖 1 Peter 2:24 (ESV) He Himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

3. Christ is the for .

📖 Hebrews 10:12 (ESV) when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God

4. Christ us to .

📖 1 Peter 1:18–19 (ESV) knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

📖 Mark 10:45 (ESV) For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

5. Christ in triumph over .

📖 Romans 6:9–11 (ESV) We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

📖 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 (ESV) For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

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