THE NECESSITY OF CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION!
There are two chapters in the Old Testament which describe the future crucifixion of Israel's Messiah: Psalm Twenty-two and Isaiah Fifty-three! There are thirty-seven verses in the New Testament that declare that Jesus was, in fact, crucified! But the Gospel states:
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 - "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried...."
However, verse four does not end there; it goes on to say: "...and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures!"
THE NECESSITY OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION!
1 Corinthians 15:13-20 - "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. 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: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept."
THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS!
Matthew 17:9 - "And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead."
Matthew 26:32 - "But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee."
Matthew 28:6-7 - "He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead; and, behold, He goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see Him: lo, I have told you."
Mark 9:9 - "And as they came down from the mountain, He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man is risen from the dead."
Mark 14:28 - "But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee."
Mark 16:6, 9, 14 - "And he saith unto them, Be not afraid: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, Who was crucified: He is risen; He is not here: behold the place where they laid Him....Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven devils....Afterward He appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them who had seen Him after He was risen."
Luke 24:6, 34 - "He is not here, but is risen: remember how He spoke unto you when He was yet in Galilee....Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon."
John 2:22 - "When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said."
John 21:14 - "This is now the third time that Jesus showed Himself to His disciples, after that He was risen from the dead."
Acts 17:2-3 - "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, Whom I preach unto you, is Christ."
Romans 8:33-34 - "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also makes intercession for us."
GOD'S PROMISE TO WHOSOEVER WILL BELIEVE IS THIS:
IF YOU WILL ACKNOWLEDGE JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR,
AND YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART
THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD,
YOU WILL BE SAVED!
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