1. What do the
following
people lack?

7. “Man can live about
forty days without
food, about three
days without water,
about eight minutes
without air, but only
for one second
without hope.”
(Author unknown)

8. Hope?
Hope!

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11. The Heidelberg
Catechism (1563)
129 questions
and answers
52 Lord’s Day
Readings

12. The Apostles’ Creed
“I believe in . . .”
“The resurrection of the body
and
the life everlasting.”

13. Hebrews 6:18-19
God did this so that, by two
unchangeable things in which it is
impossible for God to lie, we who
have fled to take hold of the hope
offered to us may be greatly
encouraged. We have this hope
as an anchor for the soul, firm and
secure.

14. The resurrection of
Jesus Christ is that
which gives us the
assurance that the
hope of the gospel
can be fully
embraced!

15. The resurrection of Christ
affirms the following:
Heaven is ours!

16. 1 Corinthians 15:52b-53
For the trumpet will sound, the
dead will be raised imperishable,
and we will be changed. For the
perishable must clothe itself with
the imperishable, and the mortal
with immortality.

17. 1 Corinthians 15:54
When the perishable has been
clothed with the imperishable, and
the mortal with immortality, then
the saying that is written will come
true: “Death has been swallowed
up in victory.”

18. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your
sting?” The sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin is the law. But
thanks be to God! He gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ.

19. Hebrews 6:14-15
Since the children have flesh and
blood, he too shared in their
humanity so that by his death he
might destroy him who holds the
power of death—that is, the
devil— and free those who all their
lives were held in slavery by their
fear of death.

20. 1 Corinthians 2:9
No eye has seen, no ear has
heard, no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those
who love him.

21. The resurrection of Christ
affirms the following:
Heaven is ours!

22. John 14:19
Before long, the world will not see
me anymore, but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live.

23. The resurrection of Christ
affirms the following:
Heaven is ours!
Our faith is true!

24. 1 Corinthians 15:13-14
If there is no resurrection of
the dead, then not even Christ has
been raised. And if Christ has
not been raised, our
preaching is useless and so is your
faith.

25. 1 Corinthians 15:15
More than that, we are then found
to be false witnesses about God,
for we have testified about God
that he raised Christ from the
dead. But he did not raise him if in
fact the dead are not raised.

26. 1 Corinthians 15:16-17
For if the dead are not raised, then
Christ has not been raised either.
And if Christ has not been raised,
your faith is futile; you are still in
your sins.

27. 1 Corinthians 15:18-20a
Then those also who have fallen
asleep in Christ are lost. If only for
this life we have hope in Christ, we
are of all people most to be pitied.
But Christ has indeed been raised
from the dead!

28. Matthew 16:21
From that time on Jesus began to
explain to his disciples that he
must go to Jerusalem and suffer
many things at the hands of the
elders, the chief priests and the
teachers of the law, and that he
must be killed and on the third day
be raised to life.

29. Track record of
humanity when it
came to death?
Did they remain
dead:
Sometimes?
Usually?
Always?

30. The resurrection of Christ
affirms the following:
Heaven is ours!
Our faith is true!
Perseverance is possible!

31. 1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my dear brothers,
stand firm. Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the
work of the Lord, because you
know that your labor in the Lord is
not in vain.

32. 2 Corinthians 1:8
We do not want you to be
uninformed, brothers, about the
hardships we suffered in the
province of Asia. We were under
great pressure, far beyond our
ability to endure, so that we
despaired even of life.

33. 2 Corinthians 1:9-10
Indeed, in our hearts we felt the
sentence of death. But this
happened that we might not rely on
ourselves but on God, who raises
the dead. He has delivered us from
such a deadly peril, and he will
deliver us. On him we have set our
hope that he will continue to deliver
us.

34. The resurrection of Christ
affirms the following:
Heaven is ours!
Our faith is true!
Perseverance is possible!
Evil is done for!

35. 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
But Christ has indeed been raised
from the dead, the firstfruits of
those who have fallen asleep. For
since death came through a man,
the resurrection of the dead comes
also through a man. For as in
Adam all die, so in Christ all will be
made alive.

36. 1 Corinthians 15:23-25
But each in turn: Christ, the
firstfruits; then, when he comes,
those who belong to him. Then the
end will come, when he hands
over the kingdom to God the
Father after he has destroyed all
dominion, authority and power. For
he must reign until he has put all
his enemies under his feet.

37. 1 Corinthians 15:26-27
The last enemy to be destroyed is
death. For he “has put everything
under his feet.” Now when it says
that “everything” has been put
under him, it is clear that this does
not include God himself, who put
everything under Christ.

38. 1 Corinthians 15:28
When he has done this, then the
Son himself will be made subject
to him who put everything under
him, so that God may be all in all.

39. Revelation 21:1-2
Then I saw a new heaven and a
new earth, for the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away,
and there was no longer any sea. I
saw the Holy City, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, prepared as a
bride beautifully dressed for her
husband.

40. Revelation 21:3
And I heard a loud voice from the
throne saying, “Now the dwelling of
God is with men, and he will live
with them. They will be his people,
and God himself will be with them
and be their God.

41. Revelation 21:4-5
He will wipe every tear from their
eyes. There will be no more
death or mourning or crying or pain,
for the old order of things has
passed away.” He who was seated
on the throne said, “I am
making everything new!”

42. The resurrection of Christ
affirms the following:
H eaven is ours!
Our faith is true!
Perseverance is possible!
Evil is done for!