1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11
“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God....For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified”
(Heb.10:12, 14).
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,
should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Pt.2:24).

b. Christ died as our ransom.

“Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”
(Ro.3:24).
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins”
(Col.1:14).
“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (Tit.2:14).
“Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into
the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us” (Heb.9:12).
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the pre-
cious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Pt.1:18-19).
“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the
seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Rev.5:9).

c. Christ died as our propitiation.

“Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God”
(Ro.3:25).
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world” (1 Jn.2:2).
“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins” (1 Jn.4:10).

4. “Christ died...according to the Scriptures” (see DEEPER STUDY # 3, Jesus Christ, Death—1 Cor.15:3 for discussion).


DEEPER STUDY # 2
(15:3) Jesus Christ, Death: the Old Testament Scriptures bore strong predictions concerning the death of God’s Messiah.
⇒ Christ rebuked his disciples for not believing all the prophets had spoken about His death (Lk.24:25-26).
⇒ Paul’s very method of preaching was to convince people that Jesus Christ was the Messiah who had been
predicted in Scripture (the Old Testament).

“And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with
them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and
risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ” (Acts
17:2-3).
“Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to
small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say
should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from
the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles” (Acts 26:22-23).

⇒ Paul clearly said that he was determined to preach nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and that
the gospel had been promised before by the prophets in Holy Scripture.

“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him cruci-
fied” (1 Cor.2:2).
“Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of
God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures)” (Ro.1:1-2).
“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the
law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto
all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference” (Ro.3:21-22).

⇒ Much of the book of Hebrews is an exposition on how the death of Christ fulfills the Old Testament.

Some of the major Old Testament prophecies are given with the references to their New Testament fulfillment.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen.3:15; cp. Heb.2:14).
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from
the words of my roaring?” (Ps.22:1; cp. Mt.27:46).
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