1. The Resurrection of the Lord
1 Cor. 15: 1-4

2. Topics Importance Evidence Personal Glimpses
Two Different Resurrections
The Believer’s Resurrection Body
Therefore . . .

3. IMPORTANCE Foundational to the faith (1 Cor. 15: 2)
Verification (John 10: 18)
Hope (confidence) for the believer
(1 Cor. 15: 51-53)

4. EVIDENCE Many infallible proofs (Acts 1: 3)
Appearances to His own (e.g., 1 Cor. 15: 5-9)
Graves opened (Matt. 27: 52, 53)
Martyrs during the NT record (1 Cor. 15: 29)
Lives of the apostles (e.g., 1 Cor. 15: 31)
Through the centuries . . .
“He Lives within My Heart” (Rom. 8: 11, 16, 17)

5. PERSONAL GLIMPSES Women (Mark 16: 1)
Mary Magdalene (Mark 16: 9; John 20: 15)
Peter (1 Cor. 15: 5)
Disciples (Luke 24: 11)>idle tales?

6. TWO DIFFERENT RESURRECTIONS (John 5: 28, 29)
LIFE
CONDEMNATION

7. THE RESURRECTION BODY OF THE BELIEVER: WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE
THE RESURRECTION BODY OF THE BELIEVER: WHAT WILL IT BE LIKE? (1 Corinthians 15)
Illustration 1> vv
Illustration 2> v. 41
Contrasts> vv

8. THEREFORE . . . (1 Cor. 15: 58) INCENTIVES GIVEN
POWER GIVEN (Phil. 3: 10)
ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN