THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION

                                                         (What Good News!)

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1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Key Verses: 15:3-4

“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance:  that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to      the Scriptures…”

1.                   Of what does Paul remind the Corinthian Christians? (1-2) Why did they need to be reminded? (1Co 1:22,26,28; 1:12; 11:18; 5:1; 8:1; 11:21) 

2.                  According to verses 3-4, what is  the first main part of the gospel? (Lk 2:10b) What does sin do to mankind? (Ro 3:23; Ro 3:12; 5:12,19; Ja 1:15; Isa 59:2, Ro 6:23) What comes after death?( (Heb 9:27; 2Co 5:10, Rev21:8)

3.                   What did God do for perishing people?( Ro 6:23b;Jn 3:16; Jn 1:29, Isa 53:3-5, 1Pe1:24) How can we be saved from our sins? (Jn 1:12; Jn 5:24) Why can only Jesus save us? (1Ti 2:5; Acts 4:12; Jn 14:6)

4.                   What is the second main part of the gospel of Christ? (4) What fundamental problem did Christ’s resurrection solve? (Ro6:23, Heb9:27)  What is the living hope which the resurrection gives us? (1Pe 1:3,4) What was David’s fear? His hope? (Ac 2:23-28)

5.                   Why is it important that his death and resurrection was “according to the Scriptures?” Why must we hold on to this gospel?

6.                   Who were the witnesses of the resurrection? (1Co 15:5-12; Acts 10:40,42) Think about how each of these men were changed by the power of the resurrection. What does his resurrection mean to us? (Ro6:4-5, 1Pe1:3-4)