"resurrection" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)
Hannah effectively dies to her son in 2:11-18, giving him up entirely, and just as clearly rises again in verse 19’s picture of ongoing provision. The rich young ruler’s dilemma in Matthew 19, and Peter’s own question about reward, run on the same logic Job already learned. We give ourselves away to nothing in order to be found in Christ.
Working closely through 1 Corinthians 15:44-45, Christ as the second Adam gains a spiritual life in a spiritual world on our behalf. That gain is framed within the classic fourfold estate of man, with Calvin’s own heavenly-mindedness held up as a model for ours.
Light, like God himself, has a pervasive presence throughout creation, and only God’s own transcendent light can truly illuminate us. That light binds the darkness even now, hidden until the risen Christ is revealed to his saints.
The real difficulties in harmonizing the gospel accounts of the resurrection get worked through honestly, without papering over them. From that honest reckoning come three points on why Christ’s resurrection matters as much as it does.
Jesus sends the ten lepers to the priests before they are healed, an instruction read here as love for the law, not indifference to it. The resurrection language of verse 19 makes clear that the leper, like us, is saved by faith alone.
Setting 1 Kings 17:17-24 beside 2 Kings 4:8-37, Gehazi stands for old-covenant bondage and Elisha for new-covenant liberty. The child raised in both stories points past itself to resurrection through Christ.
Several details in verse 1 alone repay close attention, setting up everything that follows in this chapter. Elijah’s bodily ascension functions as a real lesson in eschatology, the resurrection of the body into heaven, not merely the soul’s survival. The whirlwind that carries him is itself prophetic, a small picture of the end-time consummation still to come.
Ahab’s refusal to repent after Carmel sends Elijah, and Israel in him, fleeing into the wilderness rather than forward into victory. Only God can raise him there, twice, in the same rhythm that runs through the whole story of resurrection. Elijah must die, in effect, before he can truly live.