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1 Corinthians 15:3-4 What are the Odds - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: June 26, 2011

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 15:3)

Jesus died, someone shared, someone gave, someone prayed so that you could be saved.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 15:3)

Your life was created and designed to be shared with others and given away to help others.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 15:4)

It is a statistical impossibility for Jesus to have fulfilled all the prophecies previously recorded in the Bible concerning his birth, life and death. Unless...He is the literal Son of God, the Messiah, the Savior of the World, as foretold in the Bible.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Eph 2:8-10 NKJV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

1 Cor 15:3 NLT

I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.

Gal 2:21 NLT

I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.

Rom 5:8 NLT

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Rom 5:12 NLT

When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.

1 Peter 4:10 NKJV

As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:10-11 NLT

God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. 11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

Matt 10:39 NLT

If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.

Matt 10:39 AMP

Whoever finds his [lower] life will lose it [the higher life], and whoever loses his [lower] life on My account will find it [the higher life].

Acts 20:35 NLT

And I have been a constant example of how you can help those in need by working hard. You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

1 Cor 15:3 NLT

I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said.

Rev 1:3 NLT

God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its message and obey what it says, for the time is near.

Rev 1:3 AMP

Blessed (happy, to be envied) is the man who reads aloud [in the assemblies] the word of this prophecy; and blessed (happy, to be envied) are those who hear [it read] and who keep themselves true to the things which are written in it [heeding them and laying them to heart], for the time [for them to be fulfilled] is near.

Isa 50:6 NKJV

I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

Ps 22:16-18 NLT

My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet. 17 I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat. 18 They divide my garments among themselves and throw dice for my clothing.

Zech 12:10 NLT

"Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.

Rom 10:9-10 NKJV

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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