The 2nd Coming and the Resurrection
Acts 24:15, 4:33, Cor. 1 15:1-26, and 35-58
The resurrection and 2nd coming was the theme of much preaching in the Early Church.
I: How Many Christians Really Believe?
1. Do we believe in a Literal Resurrections?
2. Can God raise up Man from the dust of time?
3. Do we refuse to have faith in that we don’t understand?
II: Did the Saints of Old Believe in A Literal Resurrection?
1. Job said, “For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day, upon the Earth and tho after my skin-worms destroy the body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
Job 19:25-26
2. Abraham believed Isaac would be raised from the dead. Heb. 11:19
3. Enoch and Elijah changed bodily and caught up.
4. Elisa’s bones gave life to a dead soldier. Kings 2 13:21.
5. Michael the Archangel disputed with Satan about the body of Moses.
6. Joseph gave command concerning his body. (Near loved ones at time of resurrection).
7. Isaiah “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they rise.” Isa. 26:19
8. Daniel “Many who sleep in the dust shall rise some to everlasting shame and some to everlasting contempt.
9. Jesus “Behold the hour cometh when they that are in the graves shall hear the voice of God. John 5:28
III: Easter Time
1. Jesus proved his power over death while here on Earth.
2. His own resurrection proven by many infallible proofs. (12, Thomas, 500 at once, eating of honey and fish).
3. John saw Jesus as “I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore. Amen and have the keys of hell and death.” Rev. 1:18.
IV: “Sorrow Not as Others which Have no Hope.” Thesis 4:13.
1. All preaching is vain without the resurrection.
2. All faith is dead.
3. All hope of resurrection depends on Jesus resurrection.
4. The victors cry will be heard by dead saints of all ages, all places under all circumstances.
5. We that are live will hear the victors shout.
With what body? Like a grain.
Suppose this morning the dead of the past were to come alive here in Tehacuyas.