“YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN,” Part 2
“Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.” “Let us now look at the words of our lesson, and see that they are in full accord with what we previously set forth to be the Scriptural teaching. Our text mentions the dead as asleep, and declares that Christ was the first one to experience a resurrection from death. Let us note these two points: (1) In what sense is death a sleep? We answer…