Title: Resurrection for the Consummation of Atonement
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Bible: 1 Corinthians 15:17-20
Title: Purpose of Resurrection-(2) Resurrection for the Perfection of Atonement
1 Corinthians 15:17-20 ‘17. If Christ is not raised, your faith is in vain, and you are still in your sins. 18 And those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19. If our hope in Christ is only this life, then we are of the most pitiful of all men, 20. But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of them that slept' - Amen.
2. The Resurrection is the sure proof of the Atonement
No matter where a person goes to pray, sin does not leave. If you do ramming and bow down to idols, your sins will not go away. It's only a brief self-hypnosis to try to forget it, but it doesn't change your conscience.
There are many ways to atone for atonement, so even if Jesus died as a sin offering, if he had not been resurrected, the believers would not have insisted that Christianity was the only salvation. What makes Christianity a true religion and indeed a religion of atonement is the fact that because the Lord was resurrected, His death was also believed to be an atoning death.
Because of this, the text, 1 Corinthians 15:17, “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is in vain, and you are still in your sins.”
Therefore, if you believe in the Atonement and do not believe in the Resurrection, you are still in your sins. That is, to be saved, you must believe in the resurrection.
Romans 6:4-5 ‘4. … so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, so we too may walk in newness of life. 5. If we have become united in his death, we will also be united in his resurrection.'
In all other religions, the theory of life that speaks of the atonement, or the philosophy of life, is unfounded and unwilling to prove it objectively in history, so it is naturally eliminated over the years.
But Christianity goes to the end of the world. Because Jesus was resurrected, it is also believed that he who overcame death died as a sin offering. So, Romans 15:13 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in faith, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
3. Life can be triumphant like resurrection
Just as Jesus was resurrected and became a body of glory, a Christian believer must be like the resurrected Lord and bring a victorious life into their lives.
The Christian faith is not at the level of cultivating the Way, nor is it the Buddhist-style mercy of feeding and sharing love with neighbors. As disciples of Jesus who overcame the devil, we must overcome the teachings and lifestyles of demons through prayer and obedience to the truth.
If you say you believe in Jesus and there is no change in your lifestyle and you just live as you are without courage, you will not be able to enjoy the grace that the Lord will give you.
Living according to the Lord's will should not be considered a burden, but you should know and obey the new law of blessing and experience it.
Romans 8:32 “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him also gift us all things?”
This resurrection power is normal only when it appears in life. It is not a normal believer for a church member to go to and from the church only once a week, saying that he is sad and dying every day.
If you truly believe in the Atonement of the Lord and believe in the Resurrection, you must emulate the Lord Jesus in your life and have the hope of resurrection, fight the sins that arise in your body, endure and change your life with faith.
If you avoid tribulation and make excuses like that, always say no, you can't, when will you experience the blessings? To truly believe in God, you must have a regular prayer life and rearrange your life based on the truth. If this happens, persecution and practical problems will arise immediately.
He said that changing the old way of human life into the way of God's truth must be accompanied by difficulties. No one else can take this pain for you. It is only a fight with yourself, but the Holy Spirit will surely help you when you exercise patience through prayer.
1 Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”
Today we have seen that the purpose of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus is the will of God to expect not only the Atonement and eternal life, but also the victory of life.
Any general in the world knelt before the Lord, and any scholar bowed his head before the words of the Lord Jesus. And the 2,000-year history of Christianity proves that when we restarted the world with the lifestyle of faith, we enjoyed the grace of descendants spiritually, materially, culturally, honorably, family and descendants.
I pray in the name of the Lord that the power of the Lord's resurrection will become the basis of hope that restores our real life and leads us to a person of blessing.