March 31, 2024 The Humanity of Christ

Part 3 | We Need Each Other’s Testimony

From 1 Corinthians 15

If Jesus told to tell He is alive, I need to tell that Jesus is .

When life is , I need to be that Jesus will me .

📖 1 Corinthians 15:1, 3-4 ESV Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand… 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures

1. Because of the Resurrection, I have a .

📖 1 Corinthians 15:13, 17-19 ESV if there is no resurrection of the dead, then 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.

📖 1 Corinthians 15:30-32 ESV Why are we in danger every hour? 31… I die every day! 32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

”Men have enough religion to live by, but not enough to die by”
Matthew Henry

📖 Isaiah 57:15 ESV For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

2. Because of the Resurrection, I have a .

📖 1 Corinthians 15:22-231 ESV 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.

📖 Genesis 2:17 ESV but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

📖 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

3. Because of the Resurrection I’m bound for .

📖 1 Corinthians 15:35-37 ESV But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain..

📖 1 Corinthians 15:43-44 ESV It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

📖 Philippians 3:20-4:1 ESV our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. 1 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.

Sermon in a Sentence:

When I the Resurrection of Jesus, I’m through life’s , I’m for , and one day I’ll finally be .