Temple’s  Touchstone

The Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Romans 10:8-10, 13; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4;
2 Corinthians 5:14-15

Romans 10:8-13 NKJ

⁸ But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we preach):  ⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  ¹¹ For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."  ¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.  ¹³ For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

1 Corinthians 15:1-5, 12-20,   NKJ

¹ Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,  ² by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.  ³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,  ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,  ⁵ and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.  …    ¹² Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?  ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.  ¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.  ¹⁵ Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up -- if in fact the dead do not rise.  ¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.  ¹⁷ And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!  ¹⁸ Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.  ²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. …  ⁵⁷ … thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NKJ

¹⁴ For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;  ¹⁵ and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.