Thursday, November 10, 2016

The Bible Speaks--- "POWER of the RESURRECTION." x W.L. Emmerson. Pacific Press Pub, pp.114-116.

My many thanks to the above named, for their great effort. John B.


1) How long a time did Jesus declare He would be in the tomb?
     Matthew 17:22-23  "And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry."

NOTE(JB)  Jonah 1:17 " Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
       Jonah 3:3  "So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey"
    Please know, of the THREE God The Father, God The Son, and God The Holy Spirit, three is symbolic of Spiritual Perfection. Plus can we say this?  From Creation to the fall into sin is time frame ONE, Period of time of full sin, time frame TWO, Eternity, and no sin nor death, as time frame
THREE..
Now YOU tell me about all the CO-INCIDENCES WITHIN THE BIBLE?  THERE'S NONE!

2) By whom, {or with whom} did The Father choose to foretell to all, about the resurrection of Christ, in the Old Book?
      Psalms 16:9-11  "Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.  For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore".

3) What was the first event on the Resurrection morning?
     Matthew 28:1-2 " In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it."

QUESTION (JB): As most men celebrate the Resurrection day on Sunday, the first day of the week, what day did God choose as the Sabbath? He "Named only three days, PREPARATION DAY, the 24 hours before the Sabbath,  our Friday, The Sabbath, our Saturday, then The FIRST day of the week Sunday named after the "The Venerable day of the Sun" in 321 AD. bu Emperor Constantine decree! The church of Rome ran with it, as did most of the Protestants yet today!
A: Genesis 2:1-3 and Exodus 20:1,7-11. Luke 23 {last few verses and 24: 1-3, plus Mark 16:1-3 all fix The Sabbath day as per God's will! Note this passage.......

    Romans 6:15-17  "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you."

NOTE(JB) "Never, ever, take the words of men for the Word of god, no not even this man, learn it for yourself!"    Acts 17:10-11 " And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.  These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."

4) TO WHOM WAS THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS FIRST ANNOUNCED?
      Matthew 28:5-6  "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay"

5) Who saw Jesus right after His resurrection?.
     1 Corinthians 15:4-7  "And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred 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."

6) For how long was Jesus seen by His disciples?
     Acts 1:2-5  "Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.  For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence"

NOTE(JB) This this reason we are baptized by total submersion, no by sprinkling a few drops of water,. Symbolic of His death {our Old Self} and coming up out of the water, is our rebirth, in the the newness of life without sin. Yes, we are ALL sinners, we do fall, but we choose not to stay there, repent [turn away} and ask for forgiveness!

7) What power was manifested in the resurrection of Jesus?
     2 Corinthians 13:4-5 " For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"
      Romans 6:4-5  "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"

NOTE(JB) This is the believers greatest source of hope,His Life, His death, and His resurrection, all spells hope! Therefore it His both, His perfect life and His Resurrection that spells the total hope for the believers.

8) What did the resurrection confirm?
    Romans 1:4  "And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:"
    Acts 13:33 " God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee."
    Psalms 2:7 " I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."

9) What it convincingly demonstrate?
     1 Corinthians 15:12-15  "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And 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."

NOTE (JB) That Christ and a few other saints were raised up with Jesus is a historical fact written of by men like Josephus and other writers in Greece and Rome itself. However if this ended at the cross, regarding Christ's work, there'd be no gospel to preach, no Christian Faith to proclaim, and no hope for humanity, for eternal life, after sleep in the graves.

10) . As  a result of His resurrection what did Jesus claim?
     Revelation 1:18-19  " I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;"

11) What proof of His Power over death was given immediately after Jesus arose from the tomb?
      Matthew 27:50-54  " Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God."


12) Of what may believers be assured?
      John 6:39-44 " And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day."

NOTE(JB) To un-learn, what one has been taught all their lives, is the most difficult object to overcome, without the help of the Holy Spirit unctions.

13) How vital is the resurrection in the plan of salvation?
      1 Corinthians 15:14-18 " And 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. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished."

NOTE(JB) Without Christ's death we are all still covered in our own sins, the wages of which are death Romans 6:23. Christ therefore died in in OUR PLACE!

14) What prominence did Paul give to the resurrection of Christ?
      Acts 17:2-5  "And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.  And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people."

NOTE(JB) There is since the Stoning of Stephan, no more "National Salvation" by heritage, but as all others individual coming to The Father in Christ Jesus!
   Luke 13:35 " Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
   Acts 4:10-12  "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."\

15) What attitude to this truth should we share with Paul?
      Philippians 3:8-11  "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead."

Next: "What is Jesus Doing NOW?"  [There is much error taught on this today!}

Questions?   Comments?  John at servant@frontier.com..

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