This coming Sunday we will gather as the people of the resurrected king who are happy to praise him and celebrate the triumphal victory of the King Jesus, who died for our sins, according to the scriptures, who was buried and left for three days. then triumphant and victorious about sin and death.
But the volume of our worship does not exceed the depth of our theology; the greatness of our praise for Christ will be proportional to the depth with which our understanding of his person and his glorious work takes root in the fertile land of the Word of God. Christ’s worship through the Resurrection will not go beyond our understanding of the Resurrection.
- Therefore.
- To encourage our worship for the risen Lord Jesus Christ as we wait on Resurrection Sunday.
- I want to reflect on the biblical and theological meaning of Christ’s Resurrection.
- Especially the implications of our Lord’s bodily resurrection.
“But, in fact, Christ rose from the dead, being the principle of those who sleep. Since death came from a man, it was also for a man who came the resurrection of the dead. For just as in Adam everyone dies, everyone is so invigovigod in Christ. ?(1 Corinthians 15: 20-22)
When Paul says that “death came from a man,” he is referring to Adam in the garden of Eden. God gave Adam and Eve the fruit of all the trees in the Orchard to eat, but He forbade them to eat from a specific tree. He said, the day you eat him, are you sure to die?(Genesis 2:17). And, of course, the serpent deceived Eve, she ate the fruit, and gave it to Adam, and, as God promised, at that moment death entered into God’s creation because of human sin.
And the Bible teaches that, in a mysterious but real way, all mankind was united with Adam in his disobedience, so that when he sinned, we sinned, and from that moment on, every member of the human race was spiritually dead, and we will succumb to the physical reality of death. Romans 5:12 said, “As a result, just as for a man [Adam] sin entered the world, and by sin, death, so death passed to all men, for all have sinned. “
But just as “death came through a man”, in the same way Paul says that “also through a man came the resurrection of the dead. ” In the midst of the curse of the serpent, man, woman, and all creation, God makes a gracious promise that he himself will send the seed of the woman to destroy the devil’s work and repair the damage caused by the sin of the devil. man. And when Christ left the tomb this Sunday morning, he showed that he is the promised seed, because he has conquered sin and death. And, of course, the Good News of the Gospel is that everyone who believes in him will overcome death and participate in his resurrection.
The sin of the first Adam in the garden resulted in the death of all who were there, that is, the entire human race; but the life, death and resurrection of the second Adam brings the resurrection of the dead to all who are in him, through repentance and faith.
Thus, the Resurrection identifies Jesus as the last Adam, the great ancestor of a new humanity.
Second, the Resurrection identifies Jesus as the promised Son of David, the Messiah of Israel.
In Peter’s sermon on the day of Pentecost, he quotes three Psalms of David to show that the risen Christ is the fulfillment of God’s promises to David. In Acts 2:25, Peter quotes Psalm 16:10, where David confidently declares that God will not abandon his soul in Hades, and that he will not allow His Holy One to see corruption. In verse 29, Peter says, “Brethren, let me tell you clearly about the patriarch David who died and was buried, and his tomb remains with us today. ” In other words, David saw the corruption, so how can what he wrote in Psalm 16 be true? He speaks in verse 20, quoting Psalm 132. 11, “Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn that one of his descendants would sit on his throne, anticipating this, he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, who had not even entered death, your body has not even experienced corruption ?. And in verse 34, “Why did David not ascend to heaven, but he himself declares it”, in Psalm 110. 1, “The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies at your feet . . . ?
Peter’s argument is that David did not speak of himself when he spoke that the Lord did not let His Saint see corruption, how did he know that God had promised to place one of his descendants on his throne, and how did he know that this descendant would?Is that why he can call you? In Psalm 110. 1 he wrote these things about the Messiah’s resurrection. Thus, Peter’s conclusion is this: Is the whole house of Israel absolutely sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, God, The Lord and Christ?(v. 36).
So when Jesus came out of the grave, did God give any definitive proof that Jesus was David’s promised Son?That Jesus was the Messiah and Savior expected by Israel.
By identifying Jesus as david’s promised Son, the Resurrection also identifies him as the one in whom all the promises of God’s covenant would find fulfilling him.
“We proclaim to you the gospel of the promise made to our fathers, how does God fully fulfill it toward us, his children, by resurrecting Jesus?(Acts 13:32-33).
Paul continues to quote Psalm 2. 7, Isaiah 55. 3, and Psalm 16. 10, proving, as Peter did in Acts 2, that Jesus was fulfilling the promise made to David.
But in Acts 13:22-33, Paul says that the resurrection is not simply the fulfillment of the covenant with David, but the fulfillment of God’s promise to our parents. Are these parents the patriarchs of Israel?Are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph Paul saying that the Resurrection is proof that Jesus is also fulfilling the promise made to Abraham?That in their posterity all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 22:18). In Galatians 3. 8, Paul teaches that these universal blessings are fulfilled in the gospel of justification only by grace.
And in Acts 13. 38, Paul reaches the climax of his sermon when he says, “Then take it?”I mean, on the basis of the fact that God raised Jesus from the dead, right?Through; and, by him, everyone who believes is justified in all that could not be justified by the law of Moses?Because Jesus rose from the dead, the remission of sins is accessible to all who believe in the son of the risen David. all the families of the earth are blessed in Abraham’s posterity.
Thus, the Resurrection identifies Jesus as the second and last Adam, the posterity of the woman (Genesis 3. 15, 1 Corinthians 15. 22, 45), the Son of David (2 Samuel 7. 12-16, Matthew 1. 1), and the posterity of Abraham (Genesis 22:18, Galatians 3,16).
During his mortal ministry, Jesus made a series of extraordinary and surprising statements about Himself. Consider some of them:
These are outrageous statements about yourself! People who say that this kind of thing could never be called a good teacher or “moral example. “Saying these things about you is, at the very least, crazy and, at best, blasphemy.
Then raise the bar. He says he’d be resurrected from the dead
“Here we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests and scribes; They will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles; they will despise him, spit him out, whip him, and kill him; But after three days, will he be resurrected?(Mark 10: 33-34).
And not only that, he also said that He himself would resurrect him from the grave!In John 10:18 it says: “No one takes my life, on the contrary, I give it spontaneously. I have the power to deliver it and also to obtain Is this mandate I received from my Father?
This statement triumphs above all. All the others ? Pretend to be equal to God, to be the righteous judge of all, to order to be worshipped as the Father is worshipped, to pretend to be the only way to the Father?they could only be the rhetoric of a deceiver or a madman. But his claim that he would be killed and resurrected after three days?it was verifiable. He could have said all the other things and no one could have known if it was true or not. But people could see whether or not he would be resurrected from the dead. And the point is, if I could keep that claim, there wouldn’t be a good reason to reject the other claims made. If Jesus rose from the dead, then he is who He claims to be, and you owe Him obedience. Resurrection requires obedience.
If you read this and have an external commitment to Christianity, do you say Christian, go to church from time to time (at Christmas, Easter), grow up in church and even read the Bible from time to time?but it’s obvious that you own your life, you set the agenda of your life, and when you follow Christ, you start demanding how you spend your time and money, how you treat your spouse and family, what do you make fun with?well, then all these things about? Jesus, it’s nonsense for religious fanatics, but the empty tomb simply doesn’t allow Jesus’ occasional disciples. Are you resurrected from the dead or not?
In fact, He is resurrected, and because he lives, it means that He is the Lord, He is God, He is the Judge, and His Word is the Truth!The resurrection covers all aspects of your life. And if you don’t live for Him, if you still cling to Him. your sin, I invite you, on this Passover, to confess that, despite what you say about yourself, you have never really believed in Christ as your Savior and Lord and look to the Savior with the eyes of faith, repent of his sins and experience the resurrected life that comes from his union with him.