the doctrine of the resurrection? Christian bible study

 

837. What is the doctrine of the resurrection? 

Our bodies will rise from the dead, and we shall meet our Lord at His second coming. 

838. How does Job give voice to this doctrine? 

“And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God” (Job 18:28). 

839. What hope did David express? 

“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness” 

(Psalm 17:15). 

840. What is Isaiah’s testimony? 

“Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise: . . . for thy dew is as the dew of 

herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead” (Isaiah 26:19). 

841. Does the resurrection mean the same for all people? 

“And many of them that sleep in the dust of earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame 

and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2). 

842. How does Christ state the doctrine? 

“The hour is coming, In the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall comeforth: they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrec-

tion of damnation” (John 5:28, 29). 

843. What was the attitude of the apostles toward the doctrine? 

They preached it frequently and with emphasis. 

884. By what event is the doctrine of the resurrection visibly established? 

The resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:3-20).

845. What hinges upon the fact of the resurrection of Jesus? 

The whole Christian faith (1 Corinthians 15:14). 

846. What proof have we of the fact of His resurrection? 

The Word of God: “He shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs” (Acts 1:3). Outside 

of the prejudiced Pharisees and bribed watchmen there was no attempt to dispute the doctrine until a long 

time afterwards. 

847. How does Christ refer to Himself? 

“I am the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25) 

848. What is Christ’s position in the resurrection?

“Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:20). 

849. What was accomplished in the resurrection of Christ? 

Victory over the grave. 

850. What event followed the resurrection of Christ? 

“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” (Matthew 27:52, 53). 

851. What is the consolation of those who are called upon to give up the righteous dead? 

“I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day” (John 11:24). 

852. What solemn thought does this suggest? 

“Be ready.” 

853. How get ready? 

“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” (Ephesians5.14).

854. What is our duty? 

“Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in new-

ness of life” (Romans 6:4). 

855. What is the promise? 

“If we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrec-

tion” (Romans 6:5). 

856. What of those who contend that we had our resurrection when we were saved from sin, and that there 

will be no resurrection of the body as all scripture references point to the spiritual resurrection? 

“And their word will eat as doth a canker . . . who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrec-

tion is past already” (2 Timothy 2:17, 18). 

857. When shall the righteous be rewarded for their self-sacrificing efforts? 

At the resurrection of the just (Luke 14:14). 

858. What should be our chief concern? 

That our resurrection may be the resurrection of life.