Victory Over Death

VICTORY OVER DEATH

I CORINTHIANS 15

I.                   PROOF OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION (1-11)

A.   IT IS THE ONLY LOGICAL EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS BODY

1.     JESUS DIDN’T DIE

2.      JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA STOLE THE BODY

3.      THE ROMAN OR JEWISH AUTHORITIES TOOK THE BODY

4.      THE DISCIPLES STOLE THE BODY

5.      THE WOMEN WENT TO THE WRONG TOMB

B.   NUMEROUS WITNESSES OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

1.     SEEN OF THE WOMEN

2.      APPEARED TO PETER

3.      THE TWO ON THE ROAD

4.      THE TWELVE

5.      500 AT ONE TIME

6.      JAMES

7.      PAUL

8.      YOU AND I

II.                IMPORTANCE OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION (12-19)

A.   THE REASON FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE CHURCH

B.     THE REASON WE PERUSE HOLINESS

C.     THE REASON WE LOVE AS WE DO

D.    THE REASON FOR OUR JOY

E.     THE REASON WE CELEBRATE LIFE

III.             PROMISE OF THE BELIEVER’S RESURRECTION (20-34)

A.   REASONABLE BASIS FOR OUR HOPE

1.     CHRIST HAD PROMISED THAT HE WAS GOING TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR US

2.      IF HE AROSE THEN HE MUST BE PERFORMING ALL HE PROMISED

3.      IF HE IS PREPARING A PLACE THEN HE MUST BE COMING AGAIN

B.   GOD HAS A FUTURE PLANNED FOR YOU

IV.            THE GLORY OF THE RESURRECTION

A.   MEN BURY A DEAD BODY IN UGLINESS, BUT GOD RAISES IT IN BEAUTY

B.     IT IS SOWN IN WEAKNESS, BUT RAISED IN POWER

C.     PLACED IN THE GROUND IN THE NATURAL, IT COMES FORTH SPIRITUAL ALTHOUGH VERY REAL