4/1/2018 Easter Sunday
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Resurrected Is The Lord’s Eternal Status!
Revelation 1:17-18 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as a dead man. He laid His right hand upon me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last, The Living One; I was dead & behold, I AM alive forevermore, & I have the keys of death & Hades.”
His Resurrection Confirms Who He Is
Romans 1:4 He (Jesus) was declared (by God) to be the Son of God with power BY the Resurrection from the dead…
The Lord Expects Us To Believe In His Crucifixion, Death, Burial & Resurrection!
Luke 24:25-27 He said to them, “O foolish men slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things & to enter into His glory?” Beginning with Moses & all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
Christ’s Resurrection Was Predicted In The Bible
Psalm 16:10 For Thou wilt not abandon My soul to Sheol; Neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay.
Christ’s Resurrection Was Predicted By Christ Himself!
Matthew 16:21 Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, & suffer many things from the elders & chief priests & scribes, & be killed, & be raised up on the third day.
Christ’s Resurrection Was Veiled before the Crucifixion
Luke 18:32-34 He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, & shall be mocked, & spitefully entreated, & spitted on: They shall scourge Him, & put Him to death: & the third day He shall rise again. But they understood none of these things: this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
Christ Reveals Himself To Those Who Commune With Him
Luke 24:30 When He reclined at the table with them, He took the bread & blessed it, & breaking it, He began giving it to them. And their eyes were opened & they recognized Him; & He vanished from their sight.
God’s Word Is Confirmed By Personal Experience
Luke 24:32 They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”
The Resurrection Dispels Fear & Superstition
Luke 24:36-39 He Himself stood in their midst. They were startled & frightened & thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you troubled, & why do doubts arise in your hearts? See My hands & My feet, it is I Myself; touch Me & see, for a spirit does not have flesh & bones as you see that I have!”
Resurrection Is Proven To Disciples
Luke 24:40-43 When He had thus spoken, He shewed them His hands & His feet. And while they yet believed not for joy, & wonderment, He said unto them, have ye here any meat? And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, & of an honeycomb. He took it, & did eat before them!
Open Your Heart To Him & He Will Open Your Mind To See The Resurrection
Luke 24:44-47 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets & the Psalms.” Then He opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day & repentance & forgiveness of sins will be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Doubting Resurrection Is Challenged In Apostolic Writings
Acts 26:8 Why is it considered incredible amongst you people if God raises the dead?
Christ’s Resurrection Is The Foundational Claim Of Christian Faith!
1st Corinthians 15:17-18 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
The Resurrection Is Basic Christian Doctrine!
Hebrews 6:1-2 Let us leave the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works & of faith toward God, of instructions about washings, & laying on of hands, & the resurrection of the dead, & eternal judgment.
Christ’s Resurrection Is The Greatest Source Of Joy & Peace!
John 20:19-20 It was evening, the first day of the week, the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, & Jesus came & stood in their midst, & said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them both His hands & His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
The Resurrection Verifies Christ’s Authority Over Life or Death
Romans 6:9 Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
Romans 14:9 To this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Resurrection is promised to Believers
Philippians 3:21 He will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
Resurrection Is Promised To Non-Believers
John 5:27-29 An hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed evil (by rejecting the free offer of forgiveness through Christ) to a resurrection of eternal judgment.
Resurrection Is The Principal Prophetic Teaching of the Christian Church
1st Thessalonians 4:16 The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, & with the trumpet of God; & the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Revelation 19:10
It Guarantees Believers Mercy, Hope, Salvation & Eternal Life
1st Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable & undefiled & will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Resurrection Is Everyone’s Destiny
Revelation 20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
Revelation 20:13-15
Apostles’ Creed