Resurrection
A. A FIRST PRINCIPLE SUBJECT è RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.
B. JOB’S QUESTION (Job 14:14).
1. Question of the ages.
2. Not just religious – What happens when you die?
C. SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION, SPECULATION, CONTROVERSY.
A. PAUL’S DEFENSE BEFORE FELIX (Acts 24:14-15).
B. PAUL’S ANSWER TO FESTUS & AGRIPPA (Acts 26:6-8, 22-23).
C. WHY WAS HE IN PRISON? (Acts 28:20).
D. WAS HE GUILTY? (Acts 23:6; 17:18, 32; 24:14-15; 26:23).
A. Heb. 11:35. BETTER RESURRECTION.
B. Acts 26:22-23. OT PROPHETS.
C. THE EXPECTATION OF ABRAHAM (Heb. 11:8-10; 13-16).
A. PAUL’S THEME (1 Cor. 15:12-19).
B. DEATH IS CHANGING CLOTHES (2 Cor. 5:1-9). GOING HOME.
C. PETER (Acts 2:27, 31; 4:2; 1 Pet. 1:3).
A. GOD IS THE AUTHOR. HOW?
B. 1 Pet. 1:21. JESUS RAISED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
C. Acts 24:14-15. FOUNDATION OF OUR LIVES AND OUR FAITH.
D. Rom. 5:1-5. REJOICE IN THAT HOPE – NO REGRETS.
1. More than conquerors (Rom. 8:37).
2. Not regret or shame è JOY! (Phil. 4:4-7).
E. 1 Thess. 5:1-8. PREPARATION IN HOPE – GET READY AND STAY READY.
ANTICIPATION çè PREPARATION.
F. Heb. 6:11-18.
1. Faithfulness to the end (vs. 11).
2. Imitate Jesus (Heb. 12:1-2).
3. Not easy (vs. 15; Heb. 11). Possible.
4. Hope çè Promise and oath of God (vs. 16-18).
5. Do we believe? (2 Cor. 4:13-14). The source of our hope, belief in the resurrection.
A. THE RESURRECTION & “SORROW NOT!” (Phil. 4:4).
B. JESUS IS COMING (vs. 15-16).
C. WE WILL BE TOGETHER (vs. 16-17).
D. COMFORT è CELEBRATION! (vs. 18).
A. DON’T FORGET YOUR CALLING.
1. To walk worthily.
2. To justification.
3. To eternity.
B. DEATH SWALLOWED UP !!! (1 Cor. 15:54-57).
