I Believe in Jesus’ Resurrection
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 8/9/2015 PM |
Text: | Job 19; Lord's Day 17 |
Psalters: | 374, 332, 53, 29 |
Applicatory to the Lord's Supper |
- For our righteousness.
- Jesus’ death paid for our sin and earned our righteousness and His resurrection proved it was sufficient.
- As the legal representative of all the elect He bore the punishment for all of their sins.
- So in His resurrection He was still representing the same ones for whom He endured death.
- That God raised Him (Acts 3:15; 5:31; 13:30), directs our faith and hope to God (I Peter 1:21).
- By raising Him God announced that He was completely satisfied with the payment given (Rom. 4:25).
- Even more, justification is a partaking of perfect righteousness.
- Because all your righteousness is in Jesus we are not accepted on account of our work or any worth that comes from us.
- Jesus’ death paid for our sin and earned our righteousness and His resurrection proved it was sufficient.
- Also, by the power of Jesus’ resurrection we are already raised up to a new life.
- This new life is the life of Jesus which the Spirit gives us in regeneration (I Peter 1:3).
- This new life is the life of the Spirit through which we are united with Christ our Savior and His work and life become ours.
- His righteousness in us makes us hunger and thirst after righteousness.
- This life does not change the body of this death (Rom. 7:24), but He lives in us and thus we live.
- This life is evidenced in the ability to believe (John 5:24,25), a walking with God.
- Jesus’ resurrection is a pledge of our bodily resurrection, a hope of everlasting life in a body which will never grow old or die.
- Christ was raised from the dead to glory and immortality (II Tim. 1:10).
- His resurrection is a pledge or guarantee that we also will partake of a physical resurrection like unto His.
- How blessed the resurrection day will be.
- Nothing demonstrates God's power for His people more than His raising Jesus (Eph. 1:19,20; Phil. 3:10; I Cor. 6:14).