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6. The risen Christ is the Assurance of our Justification (Romans 4:25). 7. The risen Christ is our Answer to every accusation (Romans 8:34). 8. The risen Christ is put to the believer’s account (Romans 6:5; Col. 2:12). 9. The risen Christ is the Model, Aim, and End of the believer’s life (2 Cor. 5:15). 10. The Risen Christ is the ground of Christ’s claim to the believer, and His protection of him (Rom. 14:fi, 9). 11. The risen Christ is the Pledge of our inheritance (1 Peter 1:3). 12. The risen Christ is the Earnest of our being glorified with Christ (Rom ans 8:11). •13. The risen Christ is the guaran tee that our loved ones, who have fallen asleep, shall be raised (1 Cor 15:20). 14. The risen Christ is God’s bond that we shall see our loved ones again (1 Thess. 4:14). 15. The risen Christ is the exhibi tion of God’s power (Eph. 1:20), 16. The risen Christ is the worker’s theme in testimony (Acts 3:15, 16; 4:10). 17. The risen Christ is our Commis sioner for service (Gal. 1:1). 18. The risen Christ is the positive proof that God will judge the world in righteousness (Acts 17:31). 19. The risen Christ should be the desire of all our life (Phil. 3:10) F. E. Marsh. Victory Over Death Text. Rom 6:23. Intro. Death—the enemy of mankind. 1—Death defined—Separation. Death of body—separation of soul from body.
The Resurrection’s Importance What light is to the earth, Christ’s resurrection is to the believer. 1. The risen Christ is Christ’s attes tation to the reality of His claims. Again and again He said that He would rise again from the dead. After His transfiguration He told His disciples that He would die and rise again, but they did not understand Him, and we find them questioning among them selves as to what this rising from among the dead could mean (Matt. 17:9; Mark 9:9-10). As Christ is journeying towards Jerusalem, He takes them apart, and seeks to impress upon them the same truth (Matt. 20:19). And at the sepulchre the angels reminded the women of what He had told them (Luke 24:7). 2. The risen Christ is the clue to the understanding of the Scripture. When Mary Magdalene told Peter and John that the tomb of Christ was empty, they did not believe her, so they ran to the tomb to see for themselves. The Divine comment upon this is, “For as yet they knew not the Scripture, that He must rise from the dead” (John 20:9). See John 2:22; Acts 2:24-32; Acts 13:32, 35. 3. The risen Christ is the fulfillment of His own word as to the necessity of His resurrection to complete His aton ing work. After Peter’s confession of faith as to the Person of Christ, at Caesarea Philippi, we read that Christ began “to shew unto His disciples He must go unto Jerusalem,” etc. (Matt. 16:21; Acts 3:18). 4. The risen Christ is the Channel of blessing (Acts 5:30, 31; 10:40; 13: 37, 38). 5. The risen Christ is the Object of our faith (Rom. 10:9; 1 Peter 1:21).
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