Today With Christ Daily Devotional for SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022

SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022

TEXT: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19

12. Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

13. If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;

14. and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.

15. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ whom he did not raise if it is true that the not raised.

16. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

17. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

18. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished.

19. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

(New Revised Standard Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: CERTAINTY OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION (I)

The centrality of Jesus in the entire Bible is indisputable. That is why many promoters of different religions make reference to Him to appeal to unsuspecting listeners. Jesus, having been raised from the dead, according to the Scripture, is an assurance that the dead in Christ shall be resurrected by the same power of God (vs. 12, 13).

Paul affirmed how illogical it would be for preachers to keep preaching the ‘resurrection’ of the saints when Christ didn’t resurrect! But it is the resurrection that makes Christianity unique. So many philosophers, non-Christian religious leaders and atheists have kept fighting against this truth over the centuries without success.

The truth is always constant and consistent and no one can prevail against it. Christ rose. So resurrection is certain for all after death to account for or receive rewards for all that was done on this side of heaven.

The record of the Bible is true and has been authenticated by the fulfillment of all prophecies concerning Jesus.

How He would be born by the virgin Mary, His ministry on earth, His death, His resurrection, His ascension and His second coming were all prophesied. All of these fill the pages of the Bible and were fulfilled, except the last one which will certainly come to pass.

QUESTION: Do you believe in the resurrection of the dead and life after death?

PRAYER: Let Your grace, dear Lord, keep me standing in the truth of the Gospel of Christ, in Jesus name, Amen.