336 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 4 - Book 28 - Resurrection of the Body - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 28 RESURRECTION OF THE BODY - PART 2 I Corinthians 15:10a "But by the grace of God I am what I am:..." "Grace is that attribute of God, that unmerited favor which makes the pouring out of His mercy possible." If it weren't for the Grace of God, He could have never poured out His mercy on mankind, because we don't deserve it. But since Grace is that unmerited favor, then God was able to pour out His mercy. This Grace of God permitted God to save him, and pour out His mercy. What could and should God have done with them? Exodus 33:19 Because God is Sovereign. Now completing verse 10: Saul succumbed immediately to the Grace of God, and what was his response? A humble seeking sinner saved by Grace, and now he's ready to do what God wants him to do, and in the mean time what had God told Ananias there in Damascus? You know how the Apostle Paul suffered. If you don't think Paul had to suffer then read II Corinthians Chapter 11. Now reading on in verse 10: I Corinthians 15:1-4. It has to be by personal faith in Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Now verse 12, and here we get into the whole theme of the chapter,"resurrection." Life after death. I Corinthians 15:12 "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?" Because you remember in Christ's earthly ministry the Pharisees were religious fanatics. Now the Sadducees never did believe in resurrection from the dead as they always rejected that. I Corinthians 15:13,14 "But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." Why in the world sit in the pew, and sing the hymns of the faith, and all these things if there's no resurrection from the dead? There is resurrection from the dead, because Christ arose from the dead. Well, this is what Paul is doing here to the Corinthians. He's proving to them without a shadow of a doubt that Christ died but He arose from the dead, the very hope of every believer. It isn't that Christ just died some martyr's death. I Corinthians 15:15,16 "Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:" You can't separate the resurrection of Christ from the resurrection of the believer, because they're tied together. Ephesians 1:10,11 Let's start with verse 22. "Ye men of Israel, (Peter screams at the crowd at Pentecost) hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, (this same Jesus) being delivered (at the crucifixion) by the determinate counsel (same word) and foreknowledge of God..." Beginning with verse 9. "Who (speaking of God in verse 8) hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, (See how that word keeps coming up? I Corinthians 15:1-4). Now come back to I Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 17. Remember there is a lot of repetition in this chapter and the purpose of repetition is to drive home something that God wants us to know. I Corinthians 15:17,18 "And if Christ be not raised, (if He stayed in the tomb then) your faith is vain; (it's all for nothing) ye are yet in your sins. If Christ hadn't been raised from the dead then they too are just as doomed as anyone else, because without resurrection power there is no eternal life. It all has to come back to that three-fold of the Gospel that the eternal Creator God Himself took on human flesh and died. Now verse 19: I Corinthians 15:19 "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." We have that hope. Let's turn to Titus Chapter 2. Now verse 11: Titus 2:11 "For the Grace of God (Here it is again, you can't run away from it. Everywhere you go in Paul's epistles, here comes the grace of God) that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men," Now remember, Paul was out there only about 30 years. Well, I know one thing, anybody who spent any time at all in Paul's house became a believer. I'm almost confident of that, so as a result of Paul ministering to his guards, who, in turn, went to serve throughout the Roman Empire, the then-known world had heard the plan of salvation, this Grace of God in verse 11. Now verse 12: Titus 2:12,13 we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (And verse 13 is the best part of all as we are) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;" Now that's our blessed hope. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible