Isaiah 52:13-53:12
1 Corinthians 15:1-11; 54b-58
Big Idea: Jesus’s Victory Empowers Me To Live Confidently
Jesus’s Victory Transforms:
1) My Confusion Into Clarity (v. 1-11)
Verifying Christ’s Victory:
1) Fulfilled Scripture (V. 3)
2) Empty Tomb (V. 3-4)
3) Eyewitness Testimony (V. 5-8)
“And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-2
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth … For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:6-7, 11
Clarity From Christ’s Victory:
1) My Priority (V. 3)
2) My Place (V. 8-10)
3) My Purpose (V. 11)
2) My Trembling Into Triumph (V. 54b-57)
“’Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.’”
– John 14:1
“For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
- 1 John 5:4-5
3) My Concerns Into Confidence (V. 58)
How To Live Confidently Through Jesus’s Victory:
1) Embrace God’s Love
2) Steadfast In Faith
3) Immovable In Suffering
4) Abounding In Kingdom Work
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, & especially to those who are of the household of faith.”
- Galatians 6:9-10