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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? For Christ was the pattern man to all his people. He is their Representative. Whatever he did, he did for them; and whatever was wrought in him shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? What! had they got so far as that, to call themselves Christians, and yet they doubted the truth of the resurrection of the dead? Yes, they spirited it away, they made it into a kind of myth or fable; and yet they called...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, we are preaching a falsehood. If he did not rise from the dead, you are believing a falsehood, and our preaching and your believing are nothing but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: Yet it is proved by hundreds of credible witnesses that Christ is risen, therefore there is a resurrection.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. This truth is the key-stone of the arch, put this away, and the whole tumbles down. It is upon this that the whole Christian system rests. If the resurrection of Christ be a mere myth, and not a positive matter of fact, preaching and faith are equally vain.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. If Jesus Christ is not risen, he has done nothing for you;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. The apostle puts the matter strongly, yet not too strongly. He seems to say, “You know me to be an honest and truthful man, having no selfish motive in what l declare unto you; but if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Between Christ and his people, there is a union which can never be broken; so that, if he rose from the dead, they also must rise. If we are one with him, who shall separate us? And if we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. So that you cannot be a Christian if you deny the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Yet they knew that they were not in their sins, for they had the witness within them that their sins had been pardoned. They knew that sin had no more dominion over them, for they had been made to walk in holiness before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. To have been quickened into a life which gives great pain and sorrow would be a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. All the godly saints died resting in the risen Christ; and if he is not risen, they died under a delusion, and they have perished.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. A supposition against which both nature and grace revolt.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. That is to say, if our hope for the future be all a lie, we have been dreadfully deceived; and, moreover, if we could lose a hope so brilliant as that has been to us, there would fall upon us a sense of loss...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. Those who are believers in Christ, says Paul, are miserable dupes if he has not risen from the dead. They are believing and resting all their hopes upon a lie. It makes them happy, truly; but if you can take away from them that hope, by persuading them that what it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 firstfruits of them that slept. As they always brought into the Jewish tabernacle and temple a portion of the harvest, which indicated that the harvest was begun, so Christ’s going up to heaven was the taking of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. Paul has been arguing on every supposition, and now he comes back with his own positive witness a Christ is risen. You remember that Jesus died at the time of the Passover, as the one great Paschal Lamb; but he rose again on the first day of the week, and that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. All that were in Adam died in Adam, and all that are in Christ live in Christ and shall rise in Christ.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits— He must always come first, that in all things he may have the preeminence.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the...