Lessons From Acts
Lesson 6: Christ is Risen
Christ is Risen
We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a
stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness
(1 Cor. 1:23)
Christ demands faith but not blind faith
If Christ hath not been raised, then is our
preaching vain, your faith also is vain.
(1 Cor. 15:14)
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Jews a Stumbling Block … Greeks
Foolish
•Why Would Christ be a Stumbling Block to
the Jews?
•Why Would “Christ Risen” be Foolish to the
Gentile?
•What is the environment today?
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Faith but not Blind Faith
• Acts 1:3 to whom He also presented
Himself alive after His suffering by many
infallible proofs, being seen by them during
forty days and speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God.
• Paul went in the synagogues and reasoned
(Acts 17:2, 17, 18:4 and 18:19)
• Fulfilled Prophecies
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Faith but not Blind Faith
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy
– Zec. 12:10 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication;
then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will
mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for
Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– John 19:32-34 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of
the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. But
when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead,
they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers pierced His
side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy
– Isa. 53:9 And they made His grave with the wickedBut with the rich at His death, Because He had done
no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– Mt 27:57-60 … there came a rich man from Arimathea, named
Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man
went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate
commanded the body to be given to him. When Joseph had taken
the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new
tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone
against the door of the tomb, and departed.
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy
– Ps 16:10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
– Ps 49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the
power of the grave, For He shall receive me.
– Mt 16:21 From that time Jesus began to show to His
disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer
many things from the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– Mk 16:6-7 But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed.
You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is
risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid
Him. But go, tell His disciples--and Peter--that He is
going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him,
as He said to you.“
– Acts 2:23-24 Him, being delivered by the
determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you
have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put
to death; whom God raised up, having loosed the
pains of death, because it was not possible that He
should be held by it.
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– Acts 2:30-32 … He would raise up the Christ to sit on his
throne, he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection
of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His
flesh see corruption. This Jesus God has raised up, of which we
are all witnesses.
– Acts 3:14-15 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and
asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the
Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we
are witnesses.
– Acts 4:10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of
Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you
crucified, whom God raised from the dead
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– Acts 5:30-31 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom
you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to
His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to
Israel and forgiveness of sins.
– Acts 10:39-40 And we are witnesses of all things which He
did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they
killed by hanging on a tree. Him God raised up on the third day,
and showed Him openly,
– Acts 13: 29-30 Now when they had fulfilled all that was
written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree
and laid Him in a tomb. But God raised Him from the dead.
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– Acts 13:33-34 God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He
has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: 'You
are My Son, Today I have begotten You.' And that He raised Him
from the dead,
– Acts 17:30-31 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but
now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has
appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness
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Mocked by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this
to all by raising Him from the dead.
– Acts 25:18-19 When the accusers stood up, they brought no
accusation against him of such things as I supposed, but had some
questions against him about their own religion and about a certain
Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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Faith but not Blind Faith
•Prophecy Fulfilled
– Acts 26:22 "Therefore, having obtained help from God, to
this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no
other things than those which the prophets and Moses said
would come--that the Christ would suffer, that He would be
the first to rise from the dead
– Rev. 2:8 "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write,
'These things says the First and the Last, who was dead, and
came to life
– Rom. 1:3-4 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who
was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and
declared to be the Son of God with power according to the
Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
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Christ Not Raised …
Your Faith Is Vain
•No Resurrection … Christ Not Risen
•Christ Not Risen (1 Cor. 15:14)
–Our Preaching is Vain
–Your Faith is Vain
•Christ Not Risen, You Are Still in Your Sin! (v. 17)
–No Hope
•But now Christ is Risen (v. 20)
–He became the firstfruits of them that sleep
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Christ Not Raised …
Your Faith Is Vain
•Salvation Through the Resurrection
–1 Pet 3:21 There is also an antitype which now saves
us--baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh,
but the answer of a good conscience toward God),
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has
gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God,
angels and authorities and powers having been made
subject to Him.
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For the Holy Spirit Class
Read John 14:26-16
Read 1 Corinthians 12-14
7/13/2017