Sunday Sermon Notes

course correction: from dead ends to destination

  • Three Dead Ends

  • 1 Corinthians 15:1–2 (ESV) 15 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

      

  • Three Dead Ends 

    • Deception 

    • Disbelief

       

  • 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (ESV) 3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

    • Denial

  • 1 Corinthians 15:17 & 19 (ESV) 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. …  19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:24-26 (ESV) 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

     

  • 1 Corinthians 15:54b-57 (ESV) 54b then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:58 (ESV) 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.