Theological Implications of the Resurrection #2

Driving home: The resurrection of Christ is thus the indisputable evidence of completed work, of His accomplished redemption.

If Jesus went to the cross laden with the guilt of imputed sin, like a debtor to prison, His resurrection from the tomb is the indisputable confirmation that the debt was fully paid, and the prison opened.

If Jesus went to the cross laden with the guilt of imputed sin, chariously with all the debt, of all the sin, of all, of all, than Joseph, in a figurative sense, the debtors, the debtor's prison, He went in tomb as the debtor, but when He fainted, the debtor's prison was opened to give to us the indisputable, undeniable confirmation that the debt was fully paid. And we need not simply deduce that on the basis of logic, it is explicitly stated in the Word of God. Turn to Romans 4 and verse 25. Romans chapter 4 and verse 25.

13:54 - 15:12 Read in full sermon

The point: When the ghost of your past sins comes to haunt you, and the odors of your present sins turn your stomach, go to the garden tomb and stand with the women, hear the angel's words, 'He is risen, He is not here,' and draw y…

When the 'ghost of your past sins' comes to haunt a believer, and the 'odors of our present sins' turn the stomach, the believer is to go to the empty tomb for consolation and declare that Christ's resurrection means full atonement.

that is my confidence that no one shall condemn me. Now child of God, when the ghost of your past sins comes to haunt you and it will, through the faculty of memory, though God can say their sins and iniquities will I remember no more, He has not given to us the ability to reach into those areas of this complex thing called the human memory and there to zap and blot out and send into the black hole of nothingness the ghost of the memory of our past sins. And when that ghost comes forth to haunt us and when along with the ghost of our past sins there are the odors of our present sins that turn ...

20:10 - 21:38 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Secondly, the resurrection of Jesus is the imperishable anticipation and pledge of believers' own bodily resurrection. Martin uses the 'first fruits' analogy from 1 Corinthians 15…

Christ's resurrection is compared to the 'first fruits' of the harvest in Israel, signifying that just as the first fruits were of the same kind as the rest of the harvest, so Christ's resurrection guarantees the resurrection of all believers who follow.

Well let me read in your hearing and you may wish to follow two brief passages 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 2. The resurrection of Jesus was like unto the first fruits of the harvest in Israel. The harvest was coming into its full development. It was ripe.

28:44 - 29:13 Read in full sermon

The point: Anticipate your own bodily resurrection not as a nebulous hope, but as an imperishable and indefectible expectation based on Christ's resurrection as the first fruits.

Christ is the head of His mystical body, the church. Just as the head member entered a new mode of existence, so all members of His body will follow, exiting their tombs with bodies like His glorious body.

not risen could we nourish such a great hope could we believe that what is sown in corruption shall be raised within corruption what is sown in dishonor shall be the body holy determined by the spirit of God you see you and I must learn to think biblically with respect to this matter Christ is the head of his mystical body of the church one by one the members of his body die and go as simply all head what he is saying is the head member that enters one by one all ages when every last member shall exit the tombs with a body made like unto his own glorious body and then Christ in his relationshi...

33:45 - 35:14 Read in full sermon

The point: When you lay loved ones in the cold earth, or visit their graves, turn that spot in your mind into Joseph's tomb and say, 'as surely as Joseph's tomb is empty, his grave will be empty.'

When laying loved ones in the earth or visiting their graves, believers should transform the spot in their minds into Joseph's tomb, knowing that just as Joseph's tomb is empty, their loved one's grave will also be empty one day.

your own burial plot and you know from the dead, not as a private person, but as the head of his new humanity, as first fruits of their knit sleep, and as surely as with my mind stand in Joseph's empty place where he lay. One day it'll just be the place where I lay. Hallelujah. I shall vacate it in the power of his resurrection life, as we must lay our loved ones in the cold earth, and don't anyone ever say, and I'm going to continue to carry on my warfare against this terminology, oh, that's just their shell. No, that's not just their shell. That's them. Not all of them, but that's them. It s...

36:42 - 37:40 Read in full sermon

The point: Get over living on the 'undulating sea of your titillating feelings' and start planting your feet every morning inside the open door of Joseph's empty tomb, grounding your faith in that reality.

Martin quotes A.W. Tozer's graphic language about trying to live on the 'undulating sea of your titillating feelings,' emphasizing the instability of a faith based on emotions rather than objective truth.

Your hope isn't to be in bare promises. Your hope is to be in the living Christ, the promiser. Your hope is that a living Christ having received you will keep you and guide you and guard you and protect you. And in the language of Hebrews 7.25 says, Save you to the uttermost because you come unto God by him and he will land you safely at last on heaven's shore made into his own image. Child of God, get over living on what dear, the late Dr. Deer Tozer called the undulating sea of your titillating feelings. That's graphic language, isn't it?

50:28 - 51:19 Read in full sermon