Jesus Christ Our Passover: Part 7
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Resurrection Power
With Bob Lindfelt
After a brief review of previous teachings in this series, we learn that there is much more to the story.
“To understand the significance of Jesus Christ as our Passover is to come face to face with God’s magnificent plan of all ages.” Page ix
“The greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that something special happened after Jesus died—something occurred which had never happened to any other human being: God raised Jesus Christ from the dead to die no more. The angel announced, “He is risen.” That truth resounds throughout all time. But did God stop with Jesus Christ’s resurrection?” Page 403
1 Corinthians 15:12 KJV:
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Corinthians is a reproof epistle; people were not believing the truth. Such errors are addressed here in 1 Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 15:13–20 KJV:
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But [in contrast] now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1 Peter 1:3–4 KJV:
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Philippians 3:8–10 KJV:
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Ephesians 1:18–20 KJV:
18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Ephesians 2:6 KJV:
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Romans 8:8–12 KJV:
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
“I’m convinced that the most outstanding enemy is a lack of knowledge of what we are in Christ and what He is in us. What He did for us in our standing and legal rights before the throne.” —E. W. Kenyon
Don’t be talked out of walking as who we are in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:14–17 KJV:
14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new [new in quality].
Romans 6:1–5 KJV:
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Romans 6:10–13 KJV:
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Philippians 2:16 KJV:
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
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