RESURRECTION REACTION (17 OF 17)
by Ross Lester
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:12
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Resurrection Reaction (17 of 17)
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 15:12
Proposition Statement:
Jesus was resurrected, which means that we will be resurrected, which should change the way we live now.
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumela, Howzit. Good to see you all again. We are nearing the finish line of our journey through 1 Corinthians. Hope it's been as fun for you as it has for us.Throughout 1 Corinthians, Paul has been responding to some stuff that he has heard about in the church in Corinth. He had planted the church, but had received some correspondence from people in the church that they were struggling with some issues. He has had to correct them on:
- UnityApostolic authority
- Cultural freedom
- Marriage, Divorce and Singleness
- The gifts of the Holy Spirit
Now as he wraps up, he wants to speak to them about a big issue where he has heard that they are failing to live out what they should believe as Christians. The Resurrection. None of the preceding world views that would have influenced Corinth, or indeed the rest of the Roman empire believed in bodily resurrection. Romans and Greeks either didn't believe in one at all, or believed in a ghostly, Spirit-based grey and weird existence. The Jews in the church wouldn't have believed in a bodily resurrection either. They either would have believed in nothing, or again in a holding place for ghosts and the spirits of the dead.
Then Jesus ruined everything. He rose. Bodily. He was seen by 500 eye witnesses. He ate with people. They touched him. He was alive in a new and glorious sort of body. Because of that, Christianity at its essence was and is a resurrection based belief. In fact, Paul says at the start of 1 Corinthians 15 that the death and resurrection of Jesus is of FIRST IMPORTANCE! But some in Corinth still didn't believe in a bodily resurrection. In the text this week and next week, he is going to correct them, and us. Some of us today don't yet believe in a resurre ...
Series: Messy Grace
Ross Lester
1 Corinthians 15:12
Proposition Statement:
Jesus was resurrected, which means that we will be resurrected, which should change the way we live now.
Intro:
Sanibonani, Dumela, Howzit. Good to see you all again. We are nearing the finish line of our journey through 1 Corinthians. Hope it's been as fun for you as it has for us.Throughout 1 Corinthians, Paul has been responding to some stuff that he has heard about in the church in Corinth. He had planted the church, but had received some correspondence from people in the church that they were struggling with some issues. He has had to correct them on:
- UnityApostolic authority
- Cultural freedom
- Marriage, Divorce and Singleness
- The gifts of the Holy Spirit
Now as he wraps up, he wants to speak to them about a big issue where he has heard that they are failing to live out what they should believe as Christians. The Resurrection. None of the preceding world views that would have influenced Corinth, or indeed the rest of the Roman empire believed in bodily resurrection. Romans and Greeks either didn't believe in one at all, or believed in a ghostly, Spirit-based grey and weird existence. The Jews in the church wouldn't have believed in a bodily resurrection either. They either would have believed in nothing, or again in a holding place for ghosts and the spirits of the dead.
Then Jesus ruined everything. He rose. Bodily. He was seen by 500 eye witnesses. He ate with people. They touched him. He was alive in a new and glorious sort of body. Because of that, Christianity at its essence was and is a resurrection based belief. In fact, Paul says at the start of 1 Corinthians 15 that the death and resurrection of Jesus is of FIRST IMPORTANCE! But some in Corinth still didn't believe in a bodily resurrection. In the text this week and next week, he is going to correct them, and us. Some of us today don't yet believe in a resurre ...
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