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SERMON~/PREDIGT WORKSHEET
Date: April 20, 2003 Where: SHMC
Sermon Title: Rumors of the Resurrection
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:3-7, 12-14, 51-58
W. L: Ewald Goetz
Rumors…
We like to hear rumors…
We even like to spread rumors…
Rumors tell us that there is
something important going on.
Like… someone is engaged…
or having a baby…
or someone is sick and dying…
or that there is something going on…
on the other side of time!
In song and in Word
we have heard rumors that Jesus Christ is alive.
The sting of death could not hold Jesus in the grave.
And in His resurrection
we shall also be made alive.
This is the *boldest claim* in all of human history…
that a mortal man, who has died and was burried
Was raised from the dead.
On this Easter morning we will
look at the Resurrection passage from 1 Cor.
15.
The questions that Paul answers in this passage
are undoubtedly in response to the rumors…
This is also the question that we ask,
when we stand at the grave of a loved one.
“What happens when we die?”
The fundamental question upon which
our entire Christian faith rests is this,
“Did Jesus actually, literally and physically
rise from the dead?”
Is the rumor true?
Everything hangs on this question.
Furthermore, what does that mean for us
on this side of eternity?
In 1 Cor.
15 Paul affirms that Jesus
really was raised from the dead.
And, listen to this….
his resurrection has exciting implications
for our life now
and for all eternity.
Our hope in Christ is not only for this life
but also for the eternal life that awaits us.
In one of the most daring passages in the Bible,
the Apostle Paul is adressing
the ultimate enemy of mankind.
And he makes a bold declaration
that Jesus is Alive.
The rumor is true!
“In case you didn’t get it,
let me remind you of the central point
of all my preaching.”
Says Paul.
*This is the foundation of our faith.*
I’m telling you, what I have also received…”
Jesus Christ himself had revealed this to him…
when he appeared to him as the risen Lord.
And here is the Word from the Lord
that is of such great and fundamental importance?
/"That Christ died for our sins /
/in accordance with the scriptures."
/
That is the *first* element.
That is where the Good News begins.
The Good News is that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures.
The Law and the Prophets predicted
his death for our sins.
Christ’s death accomplished something for us.
It changed us, it delivered us, it set us free.
On the cross He dealt with our failures,
he dealt with our rebellion,
he dealt with our sinful, guilty lives.
Without that conviction, our life would be hopeless.
The *second* element of the Gospel according to Paul,
is that Jesus not only "died for our sins
in accordance with the scriptures"
but he was also /"buried."/
Why does Paul include the burial of Jesus?
Is it not enough to say
that Jesus died and rose again?
No! This is significant for the reason that
when his disciples came and took
the body of Jesus down from the cross,
it marked their acceptance of his death.
If you have stood at the grave of a loved one
you know how hard it was for the disciples
to accept the fact that Jesus died?
They did not want to believe it when he told them
that he was going to die.
They refused to accept it;
they shut their minds to it.
When Jesus was arrested, tried and crucified
they went away stunned and unbelieving,
unwilling to accept
that all their hopes and dreams,
should come up empty.
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