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The Doctrine of Christ's Resurrection
 


The Resurrection of Christ established four things for all Christians:

  1. The acceptability of the sacrifice. Had the sacrifice been unacceptable, the Father would not have resurrected the Son.
  2. The permanence of our salvation. Jesus did the work, the Father accepted what He did as complete. We don't need to maintain what has been completed.
  3. The viability of the Christian faith. All other great leaders remained in their graves, but our Saviour resurrected. He is not there, He has risen!
  4. A pattern for our resurrected bodies. Jesus was the firstborn from the dead, and is a pattern of what we can expect in our glorified bodies.

VIABILITY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

MATTHEW 12.40..."AS JONAS WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE WHALE'S BELLY; SO SHALL THE SON OF MAN BE THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH.."

MATTHEW 28.6-7..."HE IS NOT HERE, FOR HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID. COME, SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY. AND GO QUICKLY, AND TELL HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD; AND BEHOLD, HE GOETH BEFORE YOU INTO GALILEE; THERE YE SHALL SEE HIM..."

ACTS 1.3,22..."TO WHOM ALSO HE SHOWED HIMSELF ALIVE, AFTER HIS PASSION BY MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS, BEING SEEN OF THEN FORTY DAYS, AND SPEAKING OF THE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD...."

 

ACCEPTABILITY OF THE SACRIFICE

ACTS 5.30-32..."THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS RAISED UP JESUS, WHOM YE SLEW AND HANGED ON A TREE. HIM HATH GOD EXALTED WITH HIS RIGHT HAND TO BE A PRINCE AND A SAVIOUR, FOR TO GIVE REPENTANCE TO ISRAEL, AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS..."

ACTS 17.2-3,31..."HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD IN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY THAT MAN WHOM HE HATH ORDAINED; WHEREOF HE HATH GIVEN ASSURANCE UNTO ALL MEN, IN THAT HE HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD..."

HEBREWS 13.20..."THE GOD OF PEACE, THAT BROUGHT AGAIN FROM THE DEAD OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST..."

1 PETER 1.3,21..."BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HATH BEGOTTEN US AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESSURECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD, WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD, THAT RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD, AND GAVE HIM GLORY.."

 

PERMANENCE OF OUR SALVATION

ROMANS 4.24-25.."BUT FOR US ALSO, FOR WHOM IT SHALL BE IMPUTED, IF WE BELIEVE ON HIM THAT RAISED UP JESUS OUR LORD FROM THE DEAD: WHO WAS DELIVERED FOR OUR OFFENSES, AND RAISED AGAIN FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION..."

ROMANS 5.10..."IF, WHEN WE WERE ENEMIES, WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE, BEING RECONCILED, WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE.."

EPHESIANS 1.20..."WHICH HE WROUGHT IN CHRIST, WHEN HE RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, AND SET HIM AT HIS OWN RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES..."

1 JOHN 2.1-2..."MY LITTLE CHILDREN, THESE THINGS WRITE I UNTO YOU THAT YE SIN NO. AND IF ANY MAN SIN, WE HAVE AN ADVOCATE WITH THE FATHER, JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS. AND HE IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS; AND NOT FOR OURS ONLY, BUT FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.."

 

PATTERN OF OUR RESURRECTED BODIES

ACTS 26.23...."THAT CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER, AND THAT HE SHOULD BE THE FIRST THAT SHOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD..."

ROMANS 6.4-5..."CHRIST WAS RAISED UP FROM THE DEAD BY THE GLORY OF THE FATHER. IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH, WE SHALL ALSO BE IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESSURECTION ..."

Please note: There are additional studies on this fourth point found here.