1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11

“Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification”
(Ro.4:25).
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Ro.10:9).
“By which [the gospel] also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto
you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also re-
ceived, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried,
and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1 Cor.15:2-4).

d. The resurrection of Christ proves that He is “the Spirit of life.” It proves that Christ is the very energy and
force of life, the very power and Being of life, and that He can give the same “Spirit of life” to men. He can
raise men from the dead, even as He arose from the dead.

“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised
up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in
you” (Ro.8:11).
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him” (1 Th.4:14).
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abun-
dant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, re-
served in heaven for you” (1 Pt.1:3-4).
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” (1 Pt.3:18).

3. Jesus Christ “rose again...according to the Scripture.”
⇒ Jesus Christ said that Jonah was a type of His resurrection.

“For 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” (Mt.12:40).

⇒ The Gospel of John says that the resurrection was predicted in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ rebuked
the disciples for not believing the predictions of His death and return to glory (resurrection).

“Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have
spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And be-
ginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the
things concerning himself” (Lk.24:25-27).
“For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead”
(Jn.20:9).

⇒ Paul proclaimed the Old Testament predictions concerning the resurrection of Christ.

“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).

⇒ Peter proclaimed the Old Testament prophecies predicting the Lord’s resurrection.

“Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God fell on
sleep, and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption: but he, whom God raised again, saw
no corruption” (Acts 13:35-37).

⇒ Psalm 16:10 is a clear prediction of the Lord’s resurrection.

“For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption” (Ps.16:10).

⇒ All the Old Testament predictions of the Messiah’s eternal reign are prophecies of His resurrection. This is
clear, for He could reign eternally only if He was raised from the dead.

Thought 1. Note the implication of this fact for all believers. No man can live forever unless he is raised from the
dead, for all men are doomed to die. Therefore, all the prophecies concerning believers living forever can be fulfilled
only if we are raised from the dead.

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