The King Who Had to Rise
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text: John 20:1-9
Acts 2:22-36
1 Corinthians 15.
7 Reasons Why Jesus Had to Rise
1. Because it was God’s plan - John 10:17-18.
17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”
The Father had “charged” or commanded the Son to lay down his life and take it back up again.
The resurrection of Jesus is his obedience to the Father’s will and plan.
Jesus had to rise because it was the Father’s plan.
2. To fulfill the Scriptures -
OT patterns, types, specific statements - Gen. 22. Hebrews 11:17-19. Psalm 16:8-11. Acts 2:31. Psalm 71:20. Isaiah 53:10-11. Jonah 1:17. Matthew 12:39-41. Hosea 6:2. Isaiah 26:19.
Genesis 22 is a beautiful picture foreshadowing the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
An exalted father is called to sacrifice His dearly beloved Son. The son willingly goes to the sacrifice.
As Abraham leaves his servants behind, Genesis tells us
5 “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
We will return - though Abraham believed his son would die, he also believed he would live again - rise from the dead.
In this case, the LORD provided a substitute for Isaac - a ram that Abraham took and offered as a sacrifice instead of his son.
At Calvary, Jesus the Son was the substitute in OUR place, dying the death we were supposed to die.
In the Genesis account, Isaac’s resurrection was only figurative, since God provided a substitute to die in his place.
In the case of Jesus, His resurrection was real, because He was the substitute whom God provided to die in our place.
Hebrews makes this connection for us, referring to the figurative death and resurrection of Isaac as a picture of what was to come in Christ.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,
18 even though God had said to him, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
19 Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
The Greek word translated here “in a sense” is related to the word for parable, and it actually means something more like “a model or example pointing beyond itself for later realization, type, figure.” The author of Hebrews appears to be saying that the figurative resurrection of Isaac pointed beyond itself to a reality that was later fulfilled in Christ.
8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.
10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
11 You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
After quoting Psalm 16, Peter says that David was prophesying about the coming Messiah:
31 Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
Other Psalms also express confidence in God’s resurrection power:
20 Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. 11 After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
17 Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
39 Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
Jesus’s own statements - John 2:19-22. Mark 8:31, 9:31.
Jesus himself had told his disciples and others that He would rise from the dead. At the time, they didn’t understand it, but Jesus had prophesied his own resurrection.
19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.” 20 “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?” 21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body. 22 After He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
31 Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and after three days rise again.
31 because He was teaching His disciples. He told them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after three days He will rise.”
Jesus had to rise because the Scriptures and He Himself had foretold His resurrection.
3. To be our King - 1 Cor 15:24-25. Acts 2:32-36.
He was already King, but His resurrection means He continues to be King.
In the context of defending the resurrection of Christ, Paul starts talking about the reign of Christ. How do these relate?
If Jesus had not risen from the dead, if He is still dead, then He cannot be our King now or ever. But because Jesus did in fact rise from the dead, He is reigning over us as our King now, and He will be King forever.
24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power. 25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
At Pentecost, Peter preached that Jesus has been exalted to the right hand of God the Father - sitting down on His heavenly throne as our Lord and King, pouring out His Holy Spirit on all who trust Him.
32 God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses. 33 Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand 35 until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” ’ 36 Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
Jesus had to rise to serve as our Eternal King.
4. To be our Priest - Psalm 110:4. Hebrews 7:15-16, 24-25.
We are in need of a perfect, eternal priest to fully and finally deliver us from sin. In order to do this, Jesus had to rise.
4 The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
To be the priest in the order of Melchizedek, Jesus had to be a priest who lives forever.
15 And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
16 one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.
Because of the resurrection, our great High Priest lives forever and is constantly interceding on our behalf.
24 But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood. 25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
Jesus had to rise to be our Priest
5. To Finally Judge Sin - Acts 17:30-31.
God cannot overlook sin forever. The Judge of all the earth must do what is right. He must justly judge sin. And He has chosen to do this through the God-Man Jesus Christ. And Jesus qualifies as the Judge both because of His dual nature as God and Man, and also because of the resurrection from the dead, as Paul argues in Acts. Paul preaches to the crowd in Athens,
30 Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Jesus had to rise to serve as the Righteous Judge
6. For our justification - Rom 4:25.
25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
The resurrection is an essential part of the gospel message, and it was absolutely necessary along with the death of Christ for us to secure our salvation (justification). If Christ had only died, He would not have completed the work, and we could not be saved.
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
If Jesus had died but not risen from the dead, this life would be our only hope - we would have no hope of eternal life with God.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.
Jesus had to rise so we could be saved.
7. So we could one day rise - 1 Cor 15:20-23. Phil 3:20-21.
Our own hope of resurrection, of one day having bodies that don’t die or wear out or get sick, this hope depends on the resurrection of Jesus.
20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own turn: Christ the firstfruits; then at His coming, those who belong to Him.
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.
Jesus had to rise so we could one day rise.
Because Jesus did in fact rise from the dead, you and I will someday rise from the dead as well.
