THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION

THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION
The Power Of God—Part 2 of 3  
1 Peter 1.3-9

Mark 12.24 “… the reason you are wrong, [is] because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God …” (esv)

Philippians 3.10–11 “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection … becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.” (niv)

JESUS’ RESURRECTION EMPOWERS HIS PEOPLE …

TO EXPERIENCE Life Out Of Death

2 Corinthians 5.17 “… if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (esv)

v. 3 “… [God] has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead …” (esv) 

Romans 6.4 “… just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.” (niv) 

TO EXPERIENCE Certainty Amidst Confusion

vv. 3–4 “… born again … through the resurrection of Jesus Christ … to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you …” (esv)

Romans 6.5 “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” (esv) 

John 11.25-26 Jesus “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.” (niv)