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THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR FAITH

CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION are the basis for everything the New Testament authors say. Even the Old Testament, Jesus says, was pointing forward to him all along (see Luke 24:44). It’s no surprise, then, that Scripture is filled with promises related to the gospel, as well as explanations about the gospel’s significance for our lives and our churches. Take time to think through the following passages as you reflect on the glory of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:18

I [Paul] delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-4

Now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

ROMANS 3:21-26

Responding in Prayer