That You May Believe

THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE
TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-22

SUMMARY: The Christian faith is unique in its insistence that in order to benefit from Christ's Resurrection, we must accept it as a fact in the context of its forensic, historical and eschatological reality.

I. WE MUST ACCEPT A FORENSIC REALITY.
A. “Forensic” in the Courtroom.
B. Man's Forensic Reality Before God.
C. Our Forensic Reality & the Resurrection.

II. WE MUST ACCEPT A HISTORICAL REALITY.
A. Christianity: A Historical Faith.
B. The Historical Reality of the Resurrection.
C. The Significance of this Reality.

III. WE MUST ACCEPT AN ESCHATOLOGICAL REALITY.
A. A Warrior of the Old Faith.
B. The Eschatological Reality of the Resurrection.