Here's the problem: when every sin is seen as the same, we are less likely to fight any sins at all. Why should I stop sleeping with my girlfriend when there will still be lust in my heart? Why pursue holiness when even one sin in my life means I'm Osama bin Hitler in God's eyes? Again, it seems humble to act as if no sin is worse than another, but we lose the impetus for striving and the ability to hold each other accountable when we tumble down the slip-and-slide of moral equivalence. All of a sudden the elder who battles the temptation to take a second look at the racy section of the Land's End catalog shouldn't dare exercise church discipline on the young man fornicating with reckless abandon. When we can no longer see the different gradations among sins and sinners and sinful nations, we have not succeeded in respecting our own badness; we've cheapened God's goodness. If our own legal system does not treat all infractions in the same way, surely God knows that some sins are more heinous than others. If we can spot the difference, we'll be especially eager to put to death those sins which are most offensive to God.
Kevin DeYoung

RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, The

  1. Foretold by the prophets # Ps 16:10 Ac 13:34,35 Isa 26:19
  2. Foretold by Himself # Mt 20:19 Mr 9:9 14:28 Joh 2:19-22
  3. WAS NECESSARY TO 3a) The fulfilment of Scripture

    # Lu 24:45,46

3b) Forgiveness of sins # 1Co 15:17 3c) Justification # Ro 4:25 8:34 3d) Hope # 1Co 15:19 3e) The efficacy of preaching # 1Co 15:14 3f) The efficacy of faith # 1Co 15:14,17 4) A proof of his being the Son of God # Ps 2:7 Ac 13:33 Ro 1:4 5) EFFECTED BY 5a) The power of God # Ac 2:24 3:15 Ro 8:11 Eph 1:20 Col 2:12 5b) His own power # Joh 2:19 10:18 5c) The power of the Holy Spirit # 1Pe 3:18 6) On the first day of the week # Mr 16:9 7) On the third day after his death # Mr 16:9 8) On the third day after His death # Lu 24:46 Ac 10:40 1Co 15:4 9) THE APOSTLES 9a) At first did not understand the predictions respecting # Mr 9:10 Joh 20:9 9b) Very slow to believe # Mr 16:13 Lu 24:9,11,37,38 9c) Reproved for their unbelief of # Mr 16:14 10) HE APPEARED AFTER TO 10a) Mary Magdalene # Mr 16:9 Joh 20:18 10b) The women # Mt 28:9 10c) Simon Peter # Lu 24:34 10d) Two disciples # Lu 24:13-31 10e) Apostles, except Thomas # Joh 20:19,24 10f) Apostles, Thomas being present # Joh 20:26 10g) Apostles at the sea of Tiberias # Joh 21:1 10h) Apostles in Galilee # Mt 28:16,17 10i) About five hundred brethren # 1Co 15:6 10j) James # 1Co 15:7 10k) All the Apostles # Lu 24:51 Ac 1:9 1Co 15:7 10l) Paul # 1Co 15:8 11) Fraud impossible in # Mt 27:63-66 12) He gave many infallible proofs of # Lu 24:35,39,43 Joh 20:20,27 Ac 1:3 13) WAS ATTESTED BY 13a) Angels # Mt 28:5-7 Lu 24:4-7,23 13b) Apostles # Ac 1:22 2:32 3:15 4:33 13c) His enemies # Mt 28:11-15 14) Asserted and preached by the Apostles # Ac 25:19 26:23 15) SAINTS 15a) Begotten to a lively hope # 1Pe 1:3,21 15b) Desire to know the power of # Php 3:10 15c) Should keep, in remembrance # 2Ti 2:8 15d) Shall rise in the likeness of # Ro 6:5 1Co 15:49 Php 3:21 16) Is an emblem of the new birth # Ro 6:4 Col 2:12 17) The first-fruits of our resurrection # Ac 26:23 1Co 15:20,23 18) The truth of the gospel involved in # 1Co 15:14,15 19) Followed by his exaltation # Ac 4:10,11 Ro 8:34 Eph 1:20 Php 2:9,10 Re 1:18 20) An assurance of the judgment # Ac 17:31 21) Typified 21a) Isaac # Ge 22:13 Heb 11:19 21b) Jonah # Jon 2:10 Mt 12:40

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