Why The Resurrection Matters (1 Cor 15) - notes / handout text

Why the resurrection matters (1 Cor 15)

The meaning / significance on the resurrection

So what? What the resurrection can do for you:

Sam Allberry, Lifted: Experiencing the resurrection life (IVP, 2010) 144 pages ISBN: 9781844744237 £6.99

(1) ASSURANCE

(a) The resurrection assures us that Jesus was who he claimed to be

(b) The resurrection assures us of what Jesus has done

Rm 4:25; 1 Cor 15:17

“the resurrection is the consequence and demonstration of our salvation because death is the consequence and demonstration of our sin.”

Death as the wages of sin Gen 2:17; 3:2-5, 19; Rm 6:23

(2) TRANSFORMATION

Spiritually raised now (Col 3:1), physically raised at Final Day (Rm 8:23)

God gives life & new life - Rm 4:17; 1 Sam 2:6; Ez 37; Ps 16:10; Phil 2

(a) New life - Eph 2:1-10

(b) New perspective - Col 3:1-4

(c) New conduct - Eph 5:8, 11-14 Col 3:5, 8–10; Acts 4:32–35

(d) New power - Rom 8:9–11; Rom 6:5–14

(e) New ambition - Phil 3:10-11

(3) HOPE

Mistake 1: The mistake that the resurrection has already taken place (2 Tim 2:17-18)

(a) Wrong to think: We have it all now

 (b) Wrong to think: This is all there is

Mistake 2: There is no resurrection of the dead (1 Cor 15:12)

Jesus is the first of many - Rm 8:11

Look at nature:

(i) put death in, get life out - 1 Cor 15:36

(ii) what you get out wasn’t what you put in - 1 Cor 15:37-38

(iii) God is, of course, able to give things the appropriate kinds of bodies - 1 Cor 15:39-41

Look at the risen Jesus:

1 Cor 15:49; Phil 3:21

Continuity & discontinuity - 1 Cor 15:42–44

Resurrection hope for creation - Rev 21:1, 5; Is 65:17; 11:6–9; Gen 9:11; Mt 19:28; 1 Cor 15:58

“God says, ‘I will make all things new’, not ‘I will make all new things’.”

Frustration & Promise - Rm 8:19-22

(4) MISSION

Acts 17:30-31

The exaltation of Jesus - Phil 2:5-11

The reality of judgement - Rm 1:3-4; Dan 12:2; John 11:25; Acts 4:1-2

The necessity of mission - Mt 28:19-20