Discussion Jumpstarter
Study leader reference - not a definitive answer
Question 10
The speaker uses Peter’s post-resurrection change and Paul’s “steadfast, immovable…labor is not in vain,” then ends with Jesus’ question to Martha: “Do you believe this?”; if you actually believed resurrection-power was meant to produce present liberation and future bodily resurrection, what specific commitments would have to die in your life—and what “newness of life” would need to rise in their place?
Another way to ask: If you truly believed Jesus’ resurrection power should bring freedom now and a future bodily resurrection, what would you need to let die in your life? What new way of living would need to take its place?
Discussion Jumpstarter
Direct Answer
Based on the speaker’s message, believing “Do you believe this?” means letting sin, guilt, and fleshly desires die with Christ and then rising into steadfast obedience and kingdom work—confident your labor is not in vain and your future bodily resurrection is real.
- He uses Peter as an example of resurrection-produced change: Peter goes from denial and returning to fishing to bold witness in Acts 2, where “about 3,000 souls” are changed.
- He describes Peter’s inner transformation as death and resurrection: he “puts to death the guilt of denying Christ and raises to new life.”
- From Romans 6 he emphasizes identity change: “reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God,” and “do not let sin reign.”
- From 1 Corinthians 15 he draws the practical result: because death is “swallowed up in victory,” believers should be “steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.”
- He ties future hope to present endurance: because we will be “resurrected in the flesh,” we can trust we’ll be “raised with the faithful” when Jesus returns.