BECAUSE JESUS IS ALIVE
1 Corinthians 15.14-22
Resurrection Sunday — 2024
v. 17 “… if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless …” (nas)
Romans 10.9 “… if you … believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (esv)
BECAUSE JESUS LIVES, WE KNOW THAT …
OUR Message IS Life-Giving
vv. 14–15 “… our preaching is in vain and … We are even found to be misrepresenting God …” (esv)
v. 20 “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead …” (esv)
OUR Forgiveness IS Real
v. 17 “And if Christ has not been raised … you are still in your sins.” (esv)
1 Peter 3.18 “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” (niv)
OUR Bodies HAVE A Future
v. 17b “… those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.” (esv)
v. 56 “The sting of death is sin …” (esv)
v. 19 “If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.” (csb)
v. 20 “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” (esv)
vv. 54 & 57 “Death is swallowed up in victory. Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (esv)
John 11.25–26 “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” (esv)