THE FOUNDATION MEMORY VERSE: For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11). The foundation of the Christian faith is the gospel. And the gospel is this: 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 (1 Corinthians 15:3,4). Apart from the Resurrection...there is no gospel. Here is the fact that separates Christianity from the religions of the world: CHRIST IS RISEN! C. H. Spurgeon wrote: The fact of the Resurrection is the keystone of Christianity. Disprove the resurrection of our Lord, and our holy faith would be a mere fable; there would be nothing for faith to rest upon if He who died upon the tree did not rise again from the tomb; then your faith is vain, said the apostle, ye are yet in your sins, while they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. All the great doctrines of our divine religion fall asunder like the stones of an arch when the keystone is dislodged, in a common ruin they are all overthrown, for all our hope hinges upon that great fact. If Jesus rose, then is this gospel what it professes to be; if He rose not from the dead, then is it all deceit and delusion. But brethren, that Jesus rose from the dead is a fact better established than almost any other in history. My dear hearers, are you resting your everlasting hopes upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead? Do you trust in Him, believing that He both died and rose again for you? Do you place your entire dependence upon the merit of His blood certified by the fact of His rising again? If so, you have a foundation of fact and truth, a foundation against which the gates of hell shall not prevail.jvi Via Patsy Ann Marcil
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:17:30 +0000