1 Corinthians 15:4: he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures
Isaiah 53:8, 10: he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people . . . it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days
Acts 13:30, 32-33, 35: But God raised him from the dead . . . And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus . . . Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not let your Holy One see corruption.'
Paul Tripp: The victory of Jesus' empty tomb is an historical validation of the reliability of every promise God has ever made to his children.
Mark 9:31: The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.
Greg Bahnsen: Christ [strongly disapproved of] those who sought signs beyond the authority of His words . . . The refusal of men to believe Christ’s word is not attributed to a lack of factual evidence, but rather to their not abiding in that self-evidencing word of God. Scripture is authoritative in itself to testify of Christ, for God’s word is more sure than any eyewitness experience of the facts. If men will not submit to the self-evidencing, ultimate starting point of God’s word, neither will the fact of an historical resurrection convince them. Hence, when certain disciples were reluctant to believe the fact of Christ’s resurrection, He rebuked them, not for failure to attend to the experienced evidence, but for their hesitance to believe the Scriptures.
Romans 4:25: who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
S. Lewis Johnson: The resurrection is God's "Amen!" to Christ's "It is finished."
1 Corinthians 15:17-19: And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1 Corinthians 15:42: So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
You won't perish! You won't be destroyed! You won't see corruption! You won't see decay! New body!
1 Corinthians 15:45: Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:49: Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
1 Corinthians 15:54-58: When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Philippians 1:21: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Luke 1:34-37: And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?" And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy - the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For nothing will be impossible with God."
Our Daily Bread Story: As enemy forces advanced, Baker Company was cut off from the rest of their unit. For several hours no word was heard, even though headquarters repeatedly tried to communicate with the missing troops. Finally a faint signal was received. Straining to hear, the corpsman asked, "Baker Company, do you read me?" "This is Baker Company," came the reply. "What is your situation?" asked the corpsman. "The enemy is to the east of us, the enemy is to the west of us, the enemy is to the north of us, the enemy is to the south of us." Then after a brief pause, the sergeant from Baker Company said with determination, "The enemy is not going to get away from us now!" Although surrounded and outnumbered, he was thinking of victory, not defeat.
9. Jesus rose from the dead so He would be the firstfruits
1 Corinthians 15:20: But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Christ is the first to rise, and His resurrection guarantees that all who trust in Christ shall also rise again!
Romans 6:3-13: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 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. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Acts 2:24: God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
Paul Tripp: The sermon preached by the empty tomb outside Jerusalem is titled, "Nothing Has the Power to Stop this Savior!"
Acts 5:30-31: The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
13. Jesus rose from the dead so He would be declared to be the Son of God in power
Romans 1:4: and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead
This is Jesus' installation (His crowning!) as the ruling, reigning, God-Man and Davidic King Who has conquered death and has been exalted as Lord and all powerful Messiah!
Hebrews 1:8: But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.”
2 Corinthians 13:4: For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God.
He came meek and humble; but He's coming back as a lion!
Revelation 19:11-16: Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
John 11:25-26: Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
John Piper: One of the most powerful moments in my seminary days was at the funeral of James Morgan, my 36-year-old systematic theology teacher. Lewis Smedes was preaching the sermon, and at one point he lifted up his majestic voice and cried, "James Morgan is not dead!" My spine tingled, with the heralding of glorious truth.
Romans 8:11-15: If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
Romans 8:34-39: Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died - more than that, who was raised - who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
17. Jesus rose from the dead so we would be delivered from the wrath to come
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10: you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
Romans 10:9: if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
2 Corinthians 4:14: knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
1 Peter 1:3-4: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you
Philippians 2:8-11: And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Acts 2:31-32: he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses . . . Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.
John 20:27-28: Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe." Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
24. Jesus rose from the dead to be our everlasting, permanent Priest Who has an indestructible life and Who guarantees for us a better covenant, saves to the uttermost, and always lives to make intercession for us
Hebrews 7:14-17, 22-25: For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life. For it is witnessed of him, "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." . . . This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
25. Jesus rose from the dead so that He would conquer all of His and our enemies and be worthy to accomplish all God's perfect plans and purposes
Revelation 5:2-5: And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?" And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."
Simon Kistemaker: The verb overcome [conquered] conveys good news. It links this verse to the letters to the seven churches, which have re recurring refrain "the one who overcomes" (e. g., 2:7), and also to Jesus who says "I have overcome" (3:21; John 16:33). This verb implies that Jesus is the conqueror over death and hell, the firstfruits of the dead, and the King who ascended to heaven and sits at God's right hand.
26. Jesus rose from the dead so that He might be the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth
Revelation 1:5: Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.
27. Jesus rose from the dead never to die again and to take the keys of Death and Hades so that we might not fear
Revelation 1:17-18: When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades."
Simon Kistemaker: The one who has a key is able to unlock doors that give access to possessions, treasures, and secrets. Possessing a key means having power and authority. But no one on the face of this earth is able to claim power over Death and Hades. Jesus, who triumphed over death and the grave, possesses the keys to unlock them . . . Jesus has complete power over death and the grave.
28. Jesus rose from the dead to destroy the devil and to deliver us from the fear and slavery of death
Hebrews 2:14-15: Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
John MacArthur: Jesus came to earth to die. By dying, He was able to conquer death in His resurrection (Jn 14:19). By conquering death, He rendered Satan powerless against all who are saved. Satan's using the power of death is subject to God's will (cf. Job 2:6).
Buist Fanning: Jesus' death and resurrection provides complete victory over death and the devil.
29. Jesus rose from the dead to show God will judge the world through Jesus Christ
Acts 17:30-31: The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
Colossians 3:1-11: If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
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