Let us turn once more to God's
Word and reading now in the 15th chapter in 1st Corinthians 1st
epistle of Paul to the Corinthians chapter 15 I'll read verses 1
to 4 Moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached
unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand,
by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for
our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that
He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. And I want
to take for our text the words that we have here at verse 4
concerning the Lord Jesus, Paul declares, and that he was buried,
and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. It is plainly declared in this
passage of Scripture, certainly there in the previous third verse,
how the death of the Lord Jesus Christ was a vicarious death. In other words, he died as a
substitute. Look at the language that we
have in verse 3 Paul says Christ died for our sins according to
the Scriptures and you will see that this is a truth that must
have the primacy I delivered unto you. He says first of all
that Christ died for our sins. He died to atone for sins not
His own. His dying was substitutionary. It was not His own sins. We know
that there was no sin in Him. There was no cause of death.
In the Lord Jesus Christ what was conceived of the Holy Ghost
in the womb of the Virgin Mary was that holy thing, that human
nature, preserved from every taint of Adam's original sin. And as he was sinless in birth,
so he was sinless in life, holy, harmless, undefiled and separate
for sinners. And yet, he dies this awful death. this terrible judicial death
that was customary in the Roman Empire. He was delivered, Paul
says, to the Romans for our offences. And so we see that that is so
basic with regards to the gospel that was committed unto the Apostle
Paul and which he preached so faithfully. I delivered unto
you first of all that which I also received and that Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures. But as I said this
morning, I want to concentrate your minds and your attention
more particularly on what he goes on to say in the fourth
verse, and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the Scriptures. and to think then of the resurrection
of the Lord Jesus and now in that we see the vindication of
the Lord Jesus Christ. The resurrection is the vindication
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now that by it and in it he is
seen to be that one who is truly the Lord's Christ. Two things we're going to consider
is burial and is resurrection. These are the two truths that
stand out so plainly in the words of the text. First of all is
burial now in the grave. The body of the Lord Jesus Christ
was preserved from all corruption. He saw no corruption at all even
in the grave. But his burial also, of course,
is in a sense a confirmation of the reality of his death.
Here is the proof that he had actually died. That he was buried. And we see the connection here
when we Go back to verse 3 and take account of the opening words. There's a connection between
what Paul is saying in verses 1 and 2 with regards to the subject
matter of his ministry, what he is preaching. When we look
at that little word, for, in the opening words, he speaks
of his preaching. I declare unto you the gospel
which I preached unto you. which also ye have received and
wherein ye stand by which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory
what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain. He
is reminding them of what he preached because he goes on for
the word has the force of because I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received and what was it? Well, he preached
Christ crucified, Christ died, and Christ being dead was buried. This was the great subject matter
of his ministry. He reminds these Corinthians,
remember the words that we find in the opening chapters of the
epistle, There in chapter 1 at verse 23, he states it as clearly
as possible, but we preach Christ crucified. Well, that was the
subject matter of his preaching all the time. The dying of the
Lord Jesus, the great doctrine of the substitutionary atonement,
how that that one who died at Calvary was delivered not for
his own sins but for the offenses of others. And when we come into
the second chapter there in verse 2 he speaks of his determination
with regards to these things. I determined, he says, I determined
not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. There is the sum and substance
of all the preaching of Paul. Jesus Christ and him crucified. When he speaks of Jesus Christ,
he is referring, of course, to the person. When he speaks of
the crucifixion, he is referring to his work. Or he preached the
person of Christ, He preached all that the Lord Jesus Christ
did, that work that He accomplished, His obedience in life, His obedience
unto death, even the death of the cross. And this is the message
that He had received from God Himself. Here inversely, I delivered
unto you first of all that which I received. It wasn't something
that he had dreamt up himself. It wasn't something that he had
concocted in his own mind. It was a message that he had
received from God himself. And how God had revealed these
things to him. Remember how, writing in the
Galatian epistle, He reminds the churches there in Galatia
of that gospel that he preached unto them. In Galatians chapter
1 verse 11, I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of me is not after man, for I neither received it of man, neither was
I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. And he goes
on, verse 15, when he pleased God who separated me from my
mother's womb and called me by His grace to reveal His Son in
me. Oh, it was the revelation of
Jesus Christ. He was an ambassador. He was
not speaking His own words. It wasn't His own message. No, this gospel that He proclaimed
so faithfully was something that God had revealed to him and as
we've said many a time there in that 16th verse of Galatians
1 he makes it clear that it wasn't just a revelation to him no,
it pleased God, he says, to reveal his Son in man Paul there was
an experience he had an experience in his soul Christ was made real
in the very heart of this man Paul And yet we have to recognize
here that when he comes to this preaching he appeals to the objective
truth of Holy Scripture. What does he say concerning these
things? Christ died for our sins, he
says, according to the Scriptures and that he was buried and that
he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. All this message
Whilst there is that inward revealing in his soul, yet it is rooted
in the Word of God. This is what he proclaims. It's
a biblical message. And it reaches back into the
Old Testament Scriptures. Why the Lord Jesus? when he speaks
to those two on the road of Damascus that episode that is recorded
at the end of Luke's gospel and there in chapter 24 and he speaks to them, they are slow
of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken he says
to them there at verse 25 or their eyes are withheld and they
don't recognize His stranger who is walking with them. Thus
speaking of all those events that had occurred at Jerusalem,
the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, the one that they thought was
the Messiah, and how the Lord begins to minister to them. O
fools, He says, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken, ought not Christ to have suffered these things
and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses, and all
the prophets. He expanded unto them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning himself. All this message, this
gospel, it is rooted in the Word of God. It stretches back there
into the writings of Moses. Moses spoke of him. He's there,
of course, in all the types and shadows that we have in the book
of Leviticus. And then subsequently in the
same 24th chapter of Luke we see the Lord ministering to those
who are gathered together as he appears to them again there
in the evening of that day of the resurrection. verse 44, He
said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you
while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled
which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets,
and in the Psalms concerning me." And there we have the familiar
threefold division of the Old Testament as the Jews understood
it. They would speak of the Torah,
the law of Moses, they would speak of the prophets and they
would speak of the writings and the principal book in the writings
is the book of Psalms, that's a threefold division. The Lord
is referring to the totality of the Word of God there in Old
Testament. Those things written in the Law
of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms concerning
Mary. Then opened it their understanding.
that they might understand the Scriptures. All this man saw,
you see, his understanding had been open. He was a Pharisee,
he was the son of a Pharison. Doubtless he thought he was an
expert with regards to the Old Testament. He knew nothing until
he pleased God to reveal his son in man. Who it is, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who is the Spirit of prophecy. and it is by him
that we understand all the Scriptures, Old Testament and New Testament. Here then, the Apostle makes it clear that this
Gospel that he preached came from God to be revealed in his
own soul and it was rooted in the Word of God. All that he
says concerning the Lord Jesus was according to the Scriptures. And this is true with regards
to the burial of the Lord Jesus. He was buried and he was buried
according to the Scriptures. We have it there in the Psalm
that we just sang from in the Metrical Version. Those words
at verse 10 in Psalm 16 thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,
neither wilt thou suffer thine only one to see corruption."
And that was very much the message of the preaching of the Apostles. We see Peter on the day of Pentecost
in Acts chapter 2 at verse 27 following referring to those words of the
psalm and saying that those words have been fulfilled in the Lord
Jesus Christ in his death and in his erection and as with Peter
preaching there in the second chapter so Paul also in Acts
chapter 13 preaching at Antioch in Pisidia we find Paul taking
up the same psalm There, at Acts 13, 35 following, he refers to
the words of David and says that this doesn't really have to do
with David, this has to do with David's greater son. It's a prophecy
of Christ. The Lord Jesus is the one, then,
who is spoken of in the Old Testament and in the great How is human
nature was preserved from all corruption? All corruption comes, of course,
as the result of sin. When the Lord is there at the
grave of Lazarus and He will raise Lazarus again from the
dead, He will restore life to that corpse. But what does the
sister say to the Lord? Behold, she says, he stinketh. He hath been dead four days. By this time he is beginning
to see corruption. And yet the Lord Jesus, lying
there in the tomb until the third day, He saw no corruption, because
that corruption that comes is the consequence of man's sin. When Adam sins there in Genesis
chapter 3, what is the result? Thus thou art. and unto dust
shalt thou return." His body will be laid in the ground, his
body will see corruption. He'll return to the dust of the
earth. Lord Job said it, droughts and
heat consume the snow waters, so doth the grieve those that
have sinned. The consequence of man's rebellion
against God, there is this awful corruption and yet the Lord Jesus
Christ could see no corruption because that human nature as
we have already pointed out was free from every sin, all kind
of sin it was that holy thing there was nothing of sin in his
nature he saw no corruption therefore in the grave, that is the remarkable
thing that we see and there in the psalm that we sang verse
9 says my flesh also shall rest in hope as the Lord Jesus is
buried, his flesh rests in hope. Interestingly, when we turn to
that verse back in the psalm, if you look at the margin, if
you have a Bible with marginal references, you might see the
alternative reading there, and it says that the Hebrew has this
idea of dwelling confidently. My flesh also shall rest, shall
dwell confidently in hope. Oh, he sees no corruption at
all. He is that one who has conquered
not only sin, but he has conquered that that comes as a result of
sin. He has conquered death. He has conquered the grave. And
isn't that what the Apostle goes on to speak of at the end of
this great chapter? As he speaks of the resurrection,
and the resurrection of Christ, of course, is the guarantee of
the general resurrection. Christ is the first fruits. And
what does the Apostle say at the end of the chapter verse
53? This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal
must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on
immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written
death is swallowed up in victory O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and
the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. For there is the
victory, it's all in the Lord Jesus Christ. He has vanquished
all the powers of darkness. He has triumphed so gloriously
over man's sin. He is that one who is here spoken
of as the last Adam. All that the first Adam brought
in, all that sin, all that corruption, all has been rectified by him
who is set before us here as the second man. or the Lord from
heaven and there is a consequence to it you see at the end of the
chapter he says therefore my beloved brethren be you steadfast
unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much
as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord Christ
is that one who was vanquished sin and death and the grime and
triumphed over all the powers of Satan and darkness. And so the believer has that
assurance spoken of here at the end of the chapter. Or the burial
of the Lord Jesus. He was buried. And he was buried,
says the Apostle, according to the Scriptures. Psalm 16 has
had its fulfillment, its accomplishment in Christ. But then also, in
the second place, he speaks so clearly here of the great truth
of his resurrection from the dead. He rose again the third
day. according to the Scriptures. And it is, of course, in His
resurrection, it's in His rising again that His vindication is
altogether completed. Now, remember, this that we're
considering is the great matter of the preaching of the Apostles. And what did the Apostles preach?
They didn't just preach Christ crucified the great witness that
we see throughout the Acts of the Apostles is their testimony
to the truth of his resurrection from the dead time and again
how they emphasize this look at what he says here at verse
14 if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your
faith is also vain. Now, the word that we have, preaching,
it literally means the substance, the subject matter, of the message
that is being proclaimed in the preaching. It's not so much the
act of the preacher, it is what the preacher is declaring. And interestingly, here in verse
14, the word that's used is the same as that that we find back
in chapter 1 at verse 21. He pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching, to save them that believe. What is the foolishness
of preaching? It is not so much the man standing
in the pulpit and declaring the message. It's not the act. It's what the preacher is saying. It is foolishness. Foolishness to the Greeks, the
wise men of this world, to preach Thosomatis as the crucifixion
of Christ and His rising again from the dead. Oh, you see the
great matter of preaching as we sought to emphasize this morning
is this, it's the Lord Jesus it's Christ in his person, it's
Christ in his work as we have it here in the opening
verse, moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached
unto you which also you have received and wherein you stand,
and what is this gospel? I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried and that
He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. This is what
He preaches, the Lord Jesus Christ, and He's rising again from the
dead. And if the resurrection is not true, Christ himself is
a liar, and Christ is a sham, and it is all in vain. How Paul uses such solemn language,
such strong language here. Verse 14, following, If Christ
be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also
vain, 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 it couldn't be plainer the
importance of this doctrine of the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus as I said if it's not true Well, Christ Himself is a sham,
because He said He was going to rise again. To those Jews in John chapter
2, He says, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise
it again. Now, they think He's speaking
of the literal temple that was there in Jerusalem. But they didn't understand. and
John makes it plain he was not speaking of that temple he was
speaking of the temple of his body that he was going to rise
from the dead and that temple of course is but a type of the
Lord Jesus all we know that the temple is a type of the human
nature of the Lord Jesus Christ He's not speaking then of bricks
and mortar, but he's speaking of that that is the great antitype
of the temple. He will rise again on the third
day, and he says it. And then again, when Peter makes
his great confession, there at Caesarea Philippi, we have the
record in Matthew 16, Peter confesses, thou art the Christ, the Son
of the Living God. And though that was a revelation
to him, flesh and blood have not revealed it to thee, says
the Lord, but my Father which is in heaven. And after that
confession, We're told at verse 21, "...from that time forth
began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go
unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief
priests and scribes and be killed and be raised again the third
day." Oh, he speaks, you see. So, clearly now, to his disciples,
now that Peter has made the confession, recognizing who he is, that Jesus
of Nazareth is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, so he
speaks to them of all that he is going to accomplish at Jerusalem,
he is going to die, but the third day he will rise again. Now, if there is no resurrection,
why this man is a liar, His whole ministry is a sham, or the important
center of the doctrine of the resurrection. What do we see
in it? Four things I want to mention
as we begin to draw to a conclusion this morning. First of all, in
the resurrection we see this. We have a demonstration of the
deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 1.4, He is declared to
be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness
by the resurrection from the dead. And the words declared
to be the Son of God literally means determined, marked out
as the Son of God. What is the demonstration then?
of His deity. It is the great truth of His
rising again from the dead. And in that I say we see the
deity. Now we see all the persons of
the Godhead in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We see God the
Father, we see God the Son and we see God the Holy Spirit. Romans 6.4, He is raised up from
the dead. It says, by the glory of the
Father. Raised by the glory of the Father. The Father is there. Look at the words here in verse
15. We have testified of God that He raised up Christ. That
was the testimony of these men, these witnesses, these apostles.
We have testified of God, that He raised up the Lord Jesus Christ,
how the Father owns Him and acknowledges Him. Or we see the Father doing
that in the course of His earthly ministry, during the days of
His humiliation here upon the earth, as He goes to the River
Jordan and submits to John's baptism, a baptism of repentance.
He must need fulfill all righteousness, He will submit to that. He has
no sin to repent of, but He must identify with those that He has
come to save, He identifies with the sinners. And that baptizing
marks the beginning of His earthly ministry. And as He comes up
out of the waters, the heavens open and the Spirit descends
upon Him in the form of a dove. And the Father speaks those words,
this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." There, all
the persons of the Godhead. And then again in the Mount,
the Mount of Transfiguration, how again the Father speaks,
and those favoured three, Peter and James and John, as they see
the Lord transfigured, and they see through the veil of His humiliation,
the veil of His humanity, they see the glories of His deity.
as He's transfigured before them and the Father speaks those words,
this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him. Oh, the Father owns Him and He
does so in the resurrection raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father. We have testified of God that
He raised up Christ but also oh, it's not just the Father
There is that ministry of the Holy Spirit. 1 Peter 3.18 Christ
is put to death in the flesh and is quickened by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God quickens
him. God the Holy Ghost is there as
he rises again from the dead. But then also He Himself, God the Son, raises
Himself from the dead. Those words that we've already
referred to in the second chapter of John, when He says to the
Jews, destroy this body and in three days I will raise it again. Oh, is He not Himself the resurrection
and the life? I am the resurrection and the
life. We have those great I am declarations throughout John's
gospel how in the course of his earthly ministry he is constantly
revealing the truth of his deity, those statements in which we
see him as Jehovah Jesus, the great I am. He says to the Jews
in chapter 8 of John, if you believe not that I am, you shall
perish in your sins. Why, before Abraham was, I am. And there in chapter 11, as he
raises Lazarus from the dead, what does he say? I am the resurrection
and the life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, Yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die." Believe us now this, or do we believe
these things? These blessed truths, these great
doctrines, set before us here in Holy Scripture. Do we believe
these things? Do we really believe that Jesus
Christ rose again from the dead, that He raised Himself or he
says he had authority to lay down his life, but he had authority
also to take that life again. And so he did. In the resurrection
we have then this demonstration of the truth of his deity, that
he is God, and he is the God-man, God manifest in the flesh. But then secondly here, In His
resurrection, we also have the declaration of the Gospel. Here
is the Gospel. Remember what we said at the
outset, the significance of these opening words in verse 3, how
it forms the link with what Paul has been saying in those previous
verses, he's spoken of the Gospel, I declared unto you the Gospel
which I preached unto you. Well, what is this Gospel? What is the content of it? What
is the message that this man was proclaiming? For I delivered
unto you first of all that which I also received out of Christ
died for our sins according to the Scriptures. and that he was
buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures. Here we have the definition,
the content of the Gospel, the dying of Christ, the burying
of Christ, the rising of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. And this was what the apostles
preached. Verse 11, he says, Therefore,
whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. Whether it was the other apostles,
or whether it was the apostle Paul himself. Whether I or they,
so we preach. Now what is he speaking of? Of
the context? Look at verse 5 following. He
says of the Lord Jesus he was seen of Cephas, Peter, then of
the Twelve. After that he was seen of above
500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain unto
this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen
of James, then of all the Apostles, and last of all he was seen of
me also as of one born out of due time. Oh, he says again to
these Corinthians, am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus
Christ our Lord? This was the great mark of the
apostles. They preached the resurrection. They were witnesses. They were
the witnesses. It was during those 40 days after
his resurrection, before his ascension, 40 days He had shown
Himself to them, it says in Acts 1, by many infallible proofs. And they were to be witnesses.
There was Judas who had betrayed Him and gone to his own place.
There were only 11 apostles. One must be chosen in place of
Judas, the son of perdition. And it's Matthias who is chosen.
there in Acts chapter 1, but look at the language. Verse 21 it says, Wherefore of
these men which have accompanied with us all the time that the
Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism
of John unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must
one be ordained to be a witness with us of the resurrection? One must be chosen and ordained to be a witness a witness with
us of the resurrection and that's what they preach that's
what they preach we see it so clearly in Peter's sermon on
the day of Pentecost In Acts 2.32 this Jesus as God raised
up, He says, whereof we all are witnesses. Oh, this is the Gospel
you see. It's the declaration of the Gospel,
the preaching of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and how Paul
preaches it and lays such a remarkable emphasis upon it when we see
him preaching in Athens there in Acts chapter 17 where there
were all those Greek philosophers as we are told verse 18 of Acts 17 certain philosophers
of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him and some
said what will this babbler say? other some, he seemeth to be
a set-aforth of strange gods, because he preached unto them
Jesus and the resurrection." He preached unto them Jesus,
it says, and the resurrection. The Gospel. The declaration of
the Gospel. the importance of the rising
again of the Lord Jesus when he writes to Timothy, what does
Paul say? Remember that Jesus Christ of
the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my
gospel. All those who deny it, you see,
they're denying the very gospel, the very gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Those who deny the reality, the
truth of his rising again from the dead. Here we have a demonstration
of the deity of the Lord Jesus. Here we have the plain declaration
of the gospel of the grace of God. Here we have the defense
of faith. And by faith I mean that grace
of faith. He says to these Corinthians,
in verse 14 if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain
and your faith is also vain and the word that he uses literally
means empty if Christ is not risen from the dead this morning
those of you who profess saving faith in the Lord Jesus if Christ
is not risen that faith is empty there's nothing there's nothing
at all he goes on verse 17 If Christ be not raised, your
faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. There's a different
word, there's a different word to what we have in verse 14.
This particular word doesn't so much have the idea of emptiness,
but more particularly it means without effect, to no purpose. If Christ be not raised, your
faith is useless. You are yet in your sins. And how true it is, you see,
how important faith is. How important faith is, friends.
He was raised again, it says, for our justification. Raised
again for our justification. All that believe in Him are justified. from all things that they could
not be justified from by the deeds of the Lord. How important
the resurrection is to our faith, to our justifying faith, our
looking on to Jesus. Why, when God raises Him from
the dead, does not God set His great seal of approval to all
the work that the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished? God
has raised Him, and not only that, God has now received Him
into the very heavens And we're to be looking on to Jesus, the
author and finisher of our faith. So here we have defense of faith
in his rising again from the dead. And then finally here also
do we not have the demonstration of the power of God. And this
is what has to come into our souls. This is what we have to
experience that same power that was there when Christ was raised
remember the language of the Apostle in Ephesians 1 the exceeding
greatness of His power to us would who believe not just the power and the greatness
of that power the exceeding greatness of His power to us would who
believe which is according to the working of His mighty power
which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and
set him at his own right hand. Oh, it's the power of the resurrection
that has to come into the soul of the sinner. What are we by
nature? We're dead. Dead in trespasses
and in sins. But the Lord says, Thy dead men
shall live. Together with my dead body shall
they arise, because I live. Ye shall live also. Well, we need that that power
of the gospel to come into our souls. What was Paul's great
desire? He knew. He knew what it was to have that
revelation from God into his soul. He pleased God to reveal
his son in him. But when he writes to those Philippians,
he says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his
death. And it's interesting. how the
order is so strange that He doesn't speak first of the fellowship
of His sufferings being conformed unto His death, He speaks first
of that that comes after His dying we must first of all know
the power of His resurrection before ever we can know anything
of the Lord Jesus all that grace of God has to come into our very
soul as was the case with the Apostle. O God, grant that we
might know it, and that we might desire it. And it's not something
that we are to desire just at the beginning of our experience
as the people of God, it's a continual thing. This is Paul's desire,
that I may know Him. Lord, we want to know more, and
more, and more, and more of this blessed Gospel. this glorious
gospel that centers in the person and the work of our Lord Jesus
Christ I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received
out of Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures all
this great primary truth is substitutionary atoning death Jesus in the sinner's
place bearing in his own person all that wrath of God that was
a sinner's just desert, a real death, that he was buried and
that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. All God's grant that we might
know this vindication of Christ even in our own souls. The Lord
then blessed to us His Word. Amen.