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Author: Benjamin Dean

7. You Cannot Have One Without the Other

If the cross were the whole of Paul’s gospel, his letters would read very differently.
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6. The Resurrection Is Not Only Something You Wait For

The tension between the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet’ isn’t merely a future hope. It’s a present power, reshaping the believer’s life here and now (Rom 8:23; Eph 2:4-7; Col 3:1-11).
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5. Not Better — New

The gospel tells of ‘hope laid up for [us] in heaven’ (Col 1:5).
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4. What Is Not Raised Is Not Redeemed

The apostolic preaching of the gospel frequently led with the assertion of Jesus’ resurrection — and for good reason. It ‘demonstrates that Jesus had perfectly conquered death and its consequences’ (Rev 1:18).
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3. The New World Has Already Started

The power of resurrection (Phil 3:10) is nothing less than God’s renewing, life-giving capacity — his energy of recreation and new creation at work in the world.
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2. The Coronation, Not the Proof

If Jesus’ crucifixion — being hanged on a tree — signalled his bearing rejection and curse (Deut 21:23), then his resurrection declared his vindication.
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1. The Lock and Key of Everything

‘For I come to declare that great and most comfortable article of our Christian religion and faith, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. … Assuredly, so highly comfortable is this article to our consciences, that it is even the very lock and key of all our Christian religion and faith.’
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21. The Joyful Exchange

Three voices to close with — a confession, and two reformers — each setting out from a different angle what Christ’s death secured.
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20. He Reigns From the Cross

The gospel of the kingdom proclaimed by Jesus is partly distinguished from the gospel preached by the apostles in that they significantly expanded on the meaning of his death.
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19. Everyone Knows God Is Love. Few Know What That Means.

God’s love is certainly good news. But it doesn’t follow that the love of God is itself the gospel.
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18. It Happened Inside God

The reconciliation accomplished at the cross cannot be understood as the act of the Son alone, isolated from the Father and the Spirit.
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17. The Offended Party Makes the First Move

‘God reconciled the world with himself, without its assistance, apart from it, without the world contributing anything to it.’
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