20230409 Resurrection Sunday: From King to Servant
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John 19:30–20:15 (ESV)
When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”
After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight. So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
The theme of this morning’s message is very simple: Jesus is the King who became our suffering servant, our sinless substitute, and our resurrected Savior.
Jesus is the KIng who became our suffering servant, our sinless substitute, and our resurrected Savior.
Palm Sunday celebrates the triumphal entry. On that day Jesus entered Jerusalem as the prophecy fulfilling King of kings, the one who entered the city of kings and received the worship and adoration of his subjects, overcame his enemies by cleansing the temple, and defeated the curse of sin at it’s most basic level by healing those who were blind and lame.
Easter Sunday is the celebration of the Resurrection. The Savior who was crucified and experienced physical death is raised by the Father through the power of the Spirit and shown to be the Son of God, the obedient and sinless one who has rescued his children from the kingdom of darkness and brings them into the kingdom of light.
So important is the resurrection of Jesus that the apostles wrote that it is impossible to be a true follower of Christ and not believe the resurrection.
Romans 10:9-10
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
The gospel of the early church was a gospel that always included the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.
And so when look at the apostolic, historical, and most important, biblical Christianity of the Church we need to understand the resurrection is always included.
In the early 1900’s, the 5 V’s were used as a way to help believers remember the essential truths of the Christian faith. They are:
Verbal Inspiration; Virgin Birth; Vicarious Atonement; Victorious Resurrection; Visible Return
To live vicariously is to experience life through the actions of another person. When we talk about the Vicarious Atonement we are talking about the accomplishment of our salvation through the substitutionary death of Jesus.
In other words, Jesus the King became Jesus the suffering servant servant who was our substitute on the cross and our glorified Lord in His resurrection.
Philippians 2:8; Mark 10:44-45; 2 Corinthians 5:21
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
“It’s by Jesus' meritorious life and His substitutionary death that we can stand in the presence of a holy God.” —R.C. Sproul
There is more righteousness in Christ than there is sin in me.
There is more power in Christ than there is power in death.
As the prince of preachers Charles Spurgeon reminds us:
“Without the death of Jesus, nothing remains but death.” - Charles Spurgeon
1 Corinthians 15:14-20
As the apostle Paul writes in 1 cor 15:
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Jesus is the King who became our suffering servant, our sinless substitute, and our resurrected Savior
Communion
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.