Pastor Curt Crist
Christ had to be identified with man in order to take on the sins of mankind. But we have to be identified with the resurrection life of Christ if we're to live with God. You cannot have God's righteousness attributed to your account unless you're identified with the Savior who is living. If we had a dead Savior who was not living, what would that say about the Father accepting the payment the Saviour made where our sins are concerned.
If the high priest died and never came out alive from the Holy of Holies, God the Father was not accepting the sacrifice for the atonement of the entire congregation. Does Christ live today? Is it important He be alive today? To a believer, it is.
It's not the birth that's important. It is important that He came and identified Himself with man or you'd still be in your sins. But if Christ be risen, what's the alternative? You're not in your sins. He bore them at Calvary. If He wasn't alive, then we could indeed say, "Did God the Father accept the payment?
He's a living Savior and that He's entered once into the holiest of all places, Heaven itself and He's a living God, the Living God-Man proves to us that God the Father accepted the payment of Christ the Son. And we have to be identified with his life, with His resurrection life in order to have His life attributed to our account, not only His righteousness, but He is our life.
Paul says, "For me to live is Christ." "There wouldn't be any spiritual life in me whatsoever if Christ was not risen." The issue here is not Paul putting a condition on your being saved where your sins are concerned and that condition being: you must keep on remembering something and don't ever let it slip from your memory bank, and if you cease believing, that's it, you've just lost it all. That's not Paul's point here. He uses IF in the first class condition. He assumes that they did believe him at first and now he's reminding them of what he taught them.
This is the danger of only taking people to 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and telling them that this is what you have to believe to be saved. This is taught everywhere, folks. It's taught by young people going out on streets and grabbing hold of the derelicts and saying pray this prayer after me: Christ died, was buried and rose again the third day. But what do they believe what happened to the sins He died for? That message is not being taught.
And at the Great White Throne, look out because God's going to pull them all back off of Christ and put them all back on those people that Christ died for. They won't be at the Great White Throne because of the sins that Christ paid for and satisfied God's justice for. They'll be there standing in their own righteousness having refused to be identified with the resurrection life of Christ and His righteousness. They'll be standing there in their own righteousness and God can't dwell with iniquity and so they come short.
It's so easy to see when you see it and so difficult for the "church world" to accept because we've grown up with another notion. Yes, Christ paid for our sins. He died for our sins, was buried, and rose again, but all that did was to establish the possibility of us gaining new forgiveness for new sin when that new sin comes along in order to keep God on our team or keep ourselves on His team. What a lie that is. What a counterfeit message that is. And it's being preached everywhere in many, many circles today.
Satan is holding on to something he doesn't want to let go of. Holding on is the word katecko. So when Paul says, "If ye keep remembering," he uses the present indicative. Now, that means something when you understand what the present indicative means. The present indicative isn't something you did in the past, has nothing to do with what you're going to continue doing in future. It's where you're stand right now at the point that Paul is writing.
1 Corinthians 15:1-2 in the literal sense: "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved and are continuing is a saved condition, if you're holding on to the message that I preached unto you, unless you've believed a different message to start with."
That's the idea here, "Unless you began with a message other than the message of my good news." We might say, "Unless you have believed a false gospel to begin with."
Verse 12: "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?" (Apart from a resurrection of the dead, there is no salvation) Do you remember verse 11? Paul had just said: "Therefore whether it were I ...or they, ...so we preach, and so ye (have) believed."
Both Paul and the other apostles preached the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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