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William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:47

1 Corinthians 15:47 God always looks upon men as placed under some federal or representative head. There is no doubt it is so in a degree now in every family: God deals with the family through the father, and according to the character of the father. But the principle is true on a much larger scale. Adam was not a mere man; he was the representative head of the whole human race. Had he stood, all would have stood; when he fell, all fell. I. It surely ought to take away every fear that any child... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:50-53

1 Corinthians 15:50-53 The two main propositions contained in this verse are the following the first, Flesh and blood is corruption; the second, The kingdom of God is incorruption. I. Flesh and blood is corruption. To say that bodies corrupted by sin, or by the fall, cannot enter heaven would be simply an irrelevant truism, and would be held to be so by the parties with whom Paul is dealing. It is the admission, or the assertion, that flesh and blood, even in its best state, is corruption, and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:51

1 Corinthians 15:51 The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed. I. The early Church commemorated the dead, (1) out of love to them and to their image. She could no longer behold them and break bread with them; but she could prolong their presence by the vivid recollection of their beloved image, and by the consciousness of a united adoration; she knew that while she tarried praying without, they were but within the precinct of an inner court, nearer to the eternal throne. (2) And next, she... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:53-54

1 Corinthians 15:53-54 What the change is to be of which the Apostle speaks, and how it is to be effected, it is needless to inquire particularly. It may be more profitable to notice some lessons which it suggests. I. By an irresistible argument, a fortiori it bars the door against whatever is unholy, impure, sensual, or vile. If even physical corruptibility is inadmissible there, what shall we say of moral defilement? Is the body better than the spirit? If we cannot pass into these realms of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:54

1 Corinthians 15:54 I. Death in this world is the great devourer. He swallows up all living things. Power has no weapon to resist his onset. Worth has no protection against his rancour, nor wisdom against his rules. None are humble enough to be overlooked and pitied. None are good enough to be reverenced and spared. None are high enough to have the right to bid him stand at bay. The king of terrors, formidable to all, is himself afraid of none. He seizes and swallows up the whole family of man.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:55

1 Corinthians 15:55 , 1 Corinthians 15:56 . The Triumph over Death. I. The most remarkable feature of the triumph over death is the acknowledgment of death's victory and of the manner of it. The triumph is thus seen to be a triumph of a humbling and mortifying character. The triumphal song is chiefly occupied with a recognition of death's unworthy conquest, now happily and gloriously reversed. A sting and a victory belonged to him once, but where are they now? Death, then, has a victory. He... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:56

1 Corinthians 15:55 , 1 Corinthians 15:56 . The Triumph over Death. I. The most remarkable feature of the triumph over death is the acknowledgment of death's victory and of the manner of it. The triumph is thus seen to be a triumph of a humbling and mortifying character. The triumphal song is chiefly occupied with a recognition of death's unworthy conquest, now happily and gloriously reversed. A sting and a victory belonged to him once, but where are they now? Death, then, has a victory. He... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:57

1 Corinthians 15:57 St. Paul speaks in this chapter as if the resurrection of Christ were the victory over the grave. Was it impossible then, for men, before the resurrection of Christ, to look beyond the grave? I. The apostles unquestionably speak of our Lord's resurrection as an unprecedented fact in the world's history. But they say that its importance to human beings lay in this, that it declared Jesus to be the Son of God with power. It was an act retrospective and prospective. It revealed... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:58

1 Corinthians 15:58 I. The duty which is connected with our being steadfast and unmovable in the faith of the resurrection, and of the resurrection life, is (1) to be about the work of the Lord; (2) to abound in it; (3) to abound in it always. II. The motive your labour is not in vain. It is in the Lord that your labour is not in vain empty, or void of result and issue. You enter into the work of the Lord as the Lord Himself entered into the work given Him to do. It belongs to Him to see that... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

DISCOURSE: 1995DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY1 Corinthians 15:51-58. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then... read more

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