Christ was resurrected from the dead and this gives us the hope and assurance that all who have a relationship with God and a love for the truth will be ransomed from death and resurrected to eternal life. But where do we find the scriptural evidence for this belief, and what is the nature of the resurrection? This series examines the biblical teaching about the hope of resurrection.
Faith in the resurrection is one of those basic doctrines that each Christian must understand and be able to explain to others, to comfort and encourage them with God’s words of hope.
Is this Reality?
Resurrection — The Christian’s Big Payoff!
Many believe in “a la carte” religion in terms of the afterlife, and most religious people think that when they die they go to heaven. But is this true? Is this what the bible teaches? What is the hope of eternal life that God offers to those he recognizes as His children? The inconvenient truth is that many people will believe lies and will not accept the truth that could save them. The apostle Paul explains the truth about the gospel in 1 Corinthians 15. Will you love the truth so you can have hope in God’s promise of resurrection?
Death Where is Your Sting?
It is hard to lose loved ones in death, but God does not promise an eternity in the flesh. From the beginning, God gave people the hope of a redeemer, one who could ransom them back from the grave! Through the prophets, God revealed this awesome plan and prophesied of the role of Christ as kinsman redeemer. The disciples on the road to Emmaus were amazed when the whole story was explained to them. Do you know the story? Do you share the hope? Death where is your sting?
The Godly Promise: Resurrection to Eternal Life
The apostle Paul explained the centrality of the resurrection to the good news, the gospel of the Kingdom of God. He then posed the question to the Corinthians, “How are the dead raised?” Do you know Paul’s answer?
Jeff Patton explains the analogies that Paul used in making plain the spiritual reality of the nature of the resurrection to eternal life. Are we following Christ and believing the truth of the gospel, so that we might have immortality, life without end?
A Day of Judgment
Abraham pleaded with God for the lives of the righteous in Sodom. Are we as confident as Abraham was in God’s righteous judgment? And, are those of Sodom and Gomorrah who died, lost? Jesus in preaching the gospel, seemed to indicate that there was more hope for Sodom in the future than for the hypocrites of his day. Is this the only day of judgment and salvation? And, how does the truth of the resurrection mesh with the biblical concept of judgment? Let the scriptures make the answers clear.
Mercy on the Nations: Resurrection to Judgment
“So all Israel shall be saved!” This is a promise from God.
If today is only one day of salvation and the present reality is that all Israel has not yet been saved, then is there another day of salvation?
The apostle Paul wrote about the resurrection of all, but each one in their own order. The scriptures reveal that there will be a future resurrection to judgment, when God will judge the nations. So what does this resurrection portend for those who have not yet had a chance to walk with God?