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He is not here; he has risen.
I serve a risen Savior; He’s in the world today.
I know that He is living, no matter what men may say.
I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer and just the time I need Him, He’s always near.
He lives…
Do you know he lives?
Does He live in you?
What a difference He makes?
What a difference it makes in our lives that Jesus lives in us!
Today, we gather to celebrate an unprecedented event in world history – the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The church celebrates three important dates – Christmas, Good Friday and Easter.
But if there were no Easter, Christmas is meaningless and Friday won’t be good.
We won’t celebrate any of them.
My car – Jesus is alive!
We live and die; Christ died and lived!
John Stott.
The resurrection of Jesus places Jesus in a category all by Himself.
Christianity is based upon the fact of crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Without these two facts, there won’t be a church.
Whenever we contemplate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, a few questions arise.
You will notice that at Christmas and Easter, you can usually expect the media to put out an article, a documentary that takes shots at Christianity.
These do not build faith but do the opposite create more doubt and confusion.
For example, Macleans March 2016 issue asks the provocative question: Did Jesus really exist?
I want us to focus on three questions today.
1. Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
2. Did Jesus know He will die and be resurrected?
2. What does the resurrection mean to me today?
Prop: He is risen
1. Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
There are some common objections people have to the resurrection.
a. “The disciples fabricated the resurrection.”
b. “The Gospels set forth one of many ancient resurrection stories!
c. “The disciples suffered from some sort of hallucination.”
d. “The women and the disciples went to the wrong tomb.”
e. “Jesus did not actually die and simply awoke in the tomb.”
f. “The person killed was a look-alike of Jesus.”
a) Objection: “The disciples fabricated the resurrection.”
Answer: Hmmm, why?
There is no reason for the disciples to have fabricated the resurrection of Jesus.
Their loyalty to Jesus had already cost them more than they were comfortable with, so, why would they make up something that would get them into more trouble?
What would they gain by doing so?
Who would continue to claim they saw something they didn’t when it threatened their livelihood then their freedom and then their very lives.
Eventually, in a group of eleven, it breaks down…but it didn’t!
The disciples themselves did not believe when the women said HE is risen.
Remember Thomas - “I have the see the nails in His hands before I believe.”
b) Objection: “The Gospels set forth one of many ancient resurrection stories!”
Answer: There are NO ancient resurrection stories like the one recorded in the New Testament.
No one anticipated a physical resurrection.
c) Objection: “The disciples suffered from some sort of hallucination.”
Answer: A hallucination is a private, individual phenomenon, so a common event arrived at via the physical senses cannot be a “hallucination.”
How can all the disciples have the same hallucination at the same time?
How is it possible that 500 people [] had the identical hallucination m at the same time?
But imagine turning up tomorrow at city hall to view his body and behold, there is no body.
It is missing.
What happened?
You will proceed to go to the funeral home.
But maybe you went to wrong home.
d) Objection: “The women and the disciples went to the wrong tomb.”
Answer: This one is so laughable that it barely deserves a response.
It is not as if there were tombs all over Jerusalem for Jews generally avoided all grave sites like the plague and professional stone cut ones were rare.
Moreover, Jerusalem, then and now, is not hard to find your way around.
The Scriptures clearly tell us where he was laid.
Joseph of Arimathea, a rich man and member of the Sanhedrin council, had a tomb in close proximity to the crucifixion site.
He and Nicodemus, both members of the ruling religious council, the Sanhedrin, went to Pilate to request the body of Jesus.
That’s where he was laid.
If Mary and the disciple went to the wrong tomb to find Jesus, there is an easy solution.
The answer to this is simply find the right tomb.
It shouldn’t be difficult.
e) Disciples stole the body.
The chief priests instructed the guards.
When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13 telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
Jesus’s body was under heavy guard, how can some disciples who were so scared that they all fled from him, one naked, the night he was betrayed, muster enough courage to dare such a venture.
That would be a suicide mission.
The disciples never believed He would rise again.
It was unprecedented.
f) Swoon theory.
The Romans were experts at killing.
Jesus was severely scourged before he was placed o the cross.
Many died of shock from such beatings.
He was nailed to cross, the cruelest form of execution invented.
They plunged a spear into his side.
They certified him dead and as a result did not break his bones.
Jesus body was wrapped in strips of linen soaked in 75 pounds of spices, myrrh and aloes.
He could not have swooned from that.
Surviving all of this should alone make him superhuman.
The Romans were experts at killing.
Jesus was severely scourged before he was placed o the cross.
Many died of shock from such beatings.
He was nailed to cross, the cruelest form of execution invented.
They plunged a spear into his side.
They certified him dead and as a result did not break his bones.
Jesus body was wrapped in strips of linen soaked in 75 pounds of spices, myrrh and aloes.
He could not have swooned from that.
Surviving all of this should alone make him superhuman.
g) Mistaken identity
- a likeness of Him.
Some news reported may say tomorrow - This is not Rob.
This is someone looking like Rob.
A case of mistaken identity.
The solution will be either one of two things – produce the authentic Rob Ford or let those closest to him identify him.
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