1. Risen Christ Faiths Reality
1 Corinthians
15:1-8

2. Risen Christ … Faiths Reality
1 Corinthians
15:1-8

3. Gospel is Most Important
1 Corinthians 15:2-4
“You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you – unless you believed to no purpose. For I passed on to you as Most Important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”

4. Testimony of someone you trust
1 Corinthians 15:1-3
“… the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it … I proclaimed to you … For I passed on to you as most important what
I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”

5. Testimony of someone you trust Believe what you have been told.
1 Corinthians 15:1-3
“… the gospel I proclaimed to you; … I proclaimed to you … For I passed on to you …
FAITH:
Believe what you have been told.
:Trust

6. according to the Scriptures, according to the Scriptures”
Testimony of God
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
“For I passed on to you as Most Important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures”

7. Testimony of others
1 Corinthians 15:5-8
“And that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. Then He appeared to James then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one abnormally born, He also appeared to me.”

8. Risen Christ … Faiths Reality
Fact #1 Joseph of Arimathea buried Jesus in his tomb
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
… “Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
that He was buried”…

9. Risen Christ … Faiths Reality Fact #2 Tomb of Jesus was found empty
1 Corinthians 15:4
“that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”

10. Risen Christ … Faiths Reality
Fact #3 Multiple witnesses, under various
circumstances at different times, saw the risen Christ
1 Corinthians 15:5-8

11. Risen Christ … Faiths Reality
Fact #4 Early Disciples suddenly believe and change
1 Corinthians 15:9
“For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.”

12. Risen Christ Faiths Reality
God Raised Jesus from the dead
1 Corinthians
15:1-8