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Feb 05, 2017

Certain Comfort From An Uncertain Practice

Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:29

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: God's Love Letter to an Unlovely Church

Category: 1 Corinthians

Summary:

Main Text - 1 Corinthians 15:29; OT Reading - Exodus 20:1-17; NT Reading - Romans 10:1-13

Detail:

“Certain Comfort From an Uncertain Practice”
1 Corinthians 15:29
Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the
dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?
Though We Can’t Be Certain of
Everything the Meaning of Everything the
Scriptures Say, We Can Be Certain of the Our Resurrection Because Christ Rose.
1.
All Obscure Passages In Scripture Must Be Interpreted Using Two Principles
a. The Rule of Context
1 Cor. 7:1 in light of 7:26
vs. 29 in light of vs. 12
b. The rule of Interpreting Scripture By Scripture
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WCF I.9
James 2:24
interpreted
in light of Eph. 2:8
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9 and Gal. 2:16
2. In Light of The Context and Other Scriptures, What Can’t This Verse
Teach?
a. You can
be saved or benefited after death by acts of the living
Heb 9:27, Luke 16:22
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23
John 3:16
b. We are not to have a ritual called “proxy baptism in the church
Mat. 28:19, Acts 2:38
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39, 1 Peter 3:21, Luke 23:40
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43
3. In Light of the Whole of
Scripture There Are Two Possibilities
a. A wrong practice used to make a point
8:10 and 10:21
b. A right practice to honor a loved one
4. Though We Can’t Be Certain About This Verse, We Can Be Certain About Our
Greatest Comfort
a. We can’t
know everything we want, but...
Deut 29:29
b. The resurrection is sure and certain
1 Cor. 15:20
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23
c. In Christ we need n