Creed, Week Five

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 7:30 p.m.

\u201cLet not your hearts be troubled.\xa0Believe in God;\xa0believe also in me.\xa02\xa0In\xa0my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that\xa0I go to prepare a place for you?\xa03\xa0And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you\xa0to myself, that\xa0where I am you may be also.\xa04\xa0And you know the way to where I am going.\u201d\xa05\xa0Thomas said to him, \u201cLord,\xa0we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?\u201d\xa06\xa0Jesus said to him,\xa0\u201cI am\xa0the way, and\xa0the truth, and\xa0the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.\xa07\xa0If you had known me, you would have\xa0known my Father also.\xa0From now on you do know him and\xa0have seen him.\u201d\xa0John 14:1-7 (ESV)

Now I would remind you, brothers,\xa0of the gospel\xa0I preached to you, which you received,\xa0in which you stand,\xa02\xa0and by which\xa0you are being saved, if you\xa0hold fast to the word I preached to you\u2014unless you believed in vain. 3\xa0For\xa0I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died\xa0for our sins\xa0in accordance with the Scriptures,\xa04\xa0that he was buried, that he was raised\xa0on the third day\xa0in accordance with the Scriptures,\xa05\xa0and that\xa0he appeared to Cephas, then\xa0to the twelve.\xa06\xa0Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.\xa07\xa0Then he appeared to\xa0James, then\xa0to all the apostles.\xa08\xa0Last of all, as to one untimely born,\xa0he appeared also to me...\xa01 Corinthians 15:1-8 (ESV)

17\xa0And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and\xa0you are still in your sins.\xa018\xa0Then those also who\xa0have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.\xa019\xa0If in Christ we have hope\xa0in this life only,\xa0we are of all people most to be pitied.\xa01 Corinthians 15:17-19 (ESV)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!\xa0According to his great mercy,\xa0he has caused us to be born again to a living hope\xa0through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead\u20261 Peter 1:3 (ESV)