How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” – 1 Corinthians 15:35 Paul is writing to a group of Christians who were struggling with the issue of death. What happens after you die? Although they were living twenty years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, their thinking was still influenced […]
The resurrection is proof that a new life is possible in and through Jesus Christ. This message will examine the passage “In Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” – 1 Corinthians 15:22.
If we discount the resurrection for a moment, then who moved the stone? Did the soldiers who guarded the tomb? They had no purpose. For them to fail in their duties would risk their lives. Did the disciples steal the body? If they did, what would they do with it? Would they continue to deceive […]
Job declared, . . . and though after my skin worms destroyed this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another” – Job 19:25-27. Job realized that he would be literally resurrected from the dead one day. He understood that […]
In the beginning God crowned Adam with glory and honor and placed all things in subjection under his feet. However, today we do not see all things placed under him, but we see Jesus . . . the last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45), the second man (1 Cor. 15:47). The resurrection is the crowning declaration […]