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If you know me, you’ll know that I like order.
I love to have things organized and just so.
Of course, this doesn’t happen as often as I’d like; I’m learning to relinquish some of that control.
My beautiful/slightly cluttered wife is a good check to my obsessiveness—God’s good gift to me in a myriad of ways.
I love order.
Disorder frustrates me.
Some things just need tidying up.
And often, I can’t help myself.
A handful of years ago, I was substitute teaching in the Junior High.
Houston was in that class (however long ago that was…).
I can’t tell you the teacher’s name, but his desk was my nightmare.
It was there, just taunting me.
Staring at me in all its disorder and filth.
I lasted two, maybe three class periods before I started organizing and throwing stuff away.
I was so proud with the before and after, I sent Meghann and text message, telling her about my good work.
This man made this horrific mess, and I cleaned it up.
Her reply: “You can’t do that!
You have to put it back.
Now.
If he comes back, he won’t be able to find anything.
Put it back the way you found it.”
That was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do.
(I’ve not had a very hard life).
It was super painful to undo what I had done.
Disorder to order back to disorder.
A good deal of the time, I just can’t help myself.
Some of you are the same—always straightening up, always picking up and cleaning and organizing and throwing stuff away.
The times Dixie Vodry has cleaned out the church refrigerators numbers well into the hundreds, I’m sure.
A bunch of people make the mess, and one person cleans it up.
You might feel that way around your house.
Someone makes the mess, and you’re the one to clean it up.
Someone dirties the laundry, and you clean it.
It’s not a bad picture of what’s happening here in 1 Corinthians.
We are two weeks removed from Easter Sunday/Resurrection Morning, and here’s the thing: Jesus is as alive today as He was last week and the week before.
We never move away from the resurrection; it has a gravitational pull that keeps us within its grasp.
Always.
Jesus is alive.
He is risen.
He is not dead.
This is the Good News about Jesus in a nutshell.
What’s more, as we saw last week, if Jesus is raised, it means that we, too, as His people, will be raised.
If Jesus isn’t raised, the whole thing goes to pot.
There’s no hope, no life, nothing after death.
Thankfully—praise God!—there is resurrection.
This isn’t something we have to doubt.
We don’t have to wonder about our future; we know that our future will reflect Jesus’ life.
We too will be raised.
This, without a doubt; not because of us, but because of what Jesus has done.
Jesus came to set things right (and on a much more significant level than straightening up a teacher’s desk).
Jesus came to set things right.
And He’s coming again to set the whole world at rights.
He came to reorder the world gone wrong, the world marred by sin.
And He will, soon, return to set the whole world at rights, undoing once and for all, the effects of sin and death.
N.T. Wright: “The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the One True God appointed the man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order.
A man had got it into this mess; a man would get it out again.”
“A man had got the world into the mess; a man would get it out again.”
This is, precisely, the work of God in Jesus Christ.
This is what Jesus came to do.
This is what Jesus accomplished.
He dealt sin and Satan and death a decisive blow.
And He’s coming back to finish what He started.
If you have your Bible (and I hope you do), please turn with me to 1 Corinthians 15.
If you’re able and willing, please stand for the reading of God’s Holy Word. 1 Corinthians 15, beginning with verse 20:
May God add His blessing to the reading of His Holy Word!
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“A man had got the world into the mess; a man would get it out again.”
It’s one of the great truths of the gospel that Jesus places Himself as our substitute, taking our place, fixing the mess we’ve made for ourselves.
He began to set things right upon His first advent.
Jesus came to save sinners.
This is why He was born, because He would save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).
And so it was.
He accomplished what He set out to do: “Christ Jesus died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, He was buried, and He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”
“A man had got the world into the mess; a man would get it out again.”
It’s the resurrection that makes this clear.
He took our place, dying our death, and by His resurrection from the dead, He is the One who has come to get us out of the mess we’ve made for ourselves.
We’re so far stuck in the muck and mire, we could not get out ourselves.
No way, no how.
But Jesus on the other hand…Jesus has conquered.
He has pulled us out.
Paul gives us the assurance of our resurrection here in these verses after giving us a glimpse of how things would be if there was no resurrection.
We have the assurance of our resurrection because Jesus is the firstfruits and the reigning King.
Jesus’ resurrection comes first, and then His reign forever.
Christ, the firstfruits
The term firstfruits refers to a first sample of an agricultural crop that reveals the nature and quality of the rest of the crop.
The firstfruits were the first portions of the harvest, and they were given as offerings to God.
The firstfruits also indicated that the entire harvest was soon to follow.
In Paul’s outlook, Christ’s resurrection was not an isolated event.
It represented the beginning of something much larger.
His resurrection promised the rest of the harvest.
The full harvest, of which Christ is the first sign, is the harvest of those who have fallen asleep.
The New Testament uses “sleep” as a euphemism (a nice word) for the death of believers.
Calling it “sleep” emphasizes that their deaths are only temporary conditions.
Jesus had fallen asleep in death, but in His resurrection, He left that state and entered eternal life.
His entry into the “newness of life” was the firstfruits representing much more to come—the resurrection of all believers who have died.
In the book of Genesis, it’s made clear to us that death came through a man.
During Wednesday night Bible Study, we all go round and round about whether it was the man’s fault of the woman’s fault.
It’s pretty fun to argue.
Don often pokes the bear, and does this when us men are outnumbered significantly.
We then talk about whose fault it was, Adam’s or Eve’s.
It’s pretty simple though: Adam’s sin was more than a personal sin.
Adam’s sin brought guilt and the divine judgment of death on all humanity.
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