Risen! 1 Corinthians 15. Mark Twain Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a...

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Risen! 1 Corinthians 15

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Risen!

1 Corinthians 15

Mark TwainLife was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain; a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs – the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity...

Mark Twain...but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

resurrectionSir Robert AndersonApart from [the resurrection], the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance. The crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol of the victory of death over life. By the Resurrection the Crucified One was “declared to be the Son of God with power,” the great truth on which the Christian's faith is founded, and to which his hope is anchored.

Sin & DeathFacebookThe original word sin means to miss. It doesn’t mean to commit something wrong; it simply means to miss, to be absent...this is the only sin. And the only virtue: while you are doing something you are fully alert...that’s all that is needed, nothing more. You need not change anything....

Sin & DeathRomans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death...

Sin & Death2 Corinthians 4:16 ...our outer man is decaying....

resurrection① replaces sin with perfect

righteousness

Romans 4:25 Jesus our Lord was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

resurrection① replaces sin with perfect

righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life

Tombstone Inscription“I was not. I was. I am

not. I am free from wishes.”

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life

Seneca“Death either annihilates us or strips us bare. If we are then released, there remains the better part, after the burden has been withdrawn....”

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life

Socrates [The soul is] entirely fastened and welded to the body and is compelled to regard realties through the body as through prison bars.

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life

JosephusFor it is death which gives liberty to the soul and permits it to depart to its own pure abode, there to be free from all calamity; but so long as it is imprisoned in a mortal body and tainted with all its miseries, it is, in sober truth, dead....

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life

Philippians 3:21 The Lord Jesus Christ will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life–A real body

Job 19:25–26 As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God.

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life–A real body

John Updike“Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church will fall….”

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life–A real body–A recognizable body–An imperishable body–A glorious body–An immortal body

resurrection② replaces death with enduring life

Romans 6:9 ...Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

resurrection③ replaces futility with meaning and

hopeJack KerouacI am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

resurrection③ replaces futility with meaning and

hope2 Corinthians 4:16–18 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison...

resurrection③ replaces futility with meaning and

hope2 Corinthians 4:16–18 ...while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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