Resurrection Morning

Church we have had a great time over the last few days

We have gathered on Thursday, Friday and Saturday

We have preached though those events of each of those nights

If you missed them I would encourage you to go back through and watch them

We left off Saturday

Matthew 27:62–66 NASB95

62 Now on the next day, the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate, 63 and said, “Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am to rise again.’ 64 “Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go, make it as secure as you know how.” 66 And they went and made the grave secure, and along with the guard they set a seal on the stone.

Jesus was dead and in the grave

They had sealed up the grave

We even spent time reading about the beating and death of Jesus

Jesus was dead

And what do you do with dead people

You bury them

Jesus has been buried

Church 3 days later Jesus had paid for your sin

The cost of Sin is no more

With Jesus’s death has once and for all paid for you rdebt of sin

You are no longer on the hook for that payment

Romans 5:15 NASB95

15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Sin entered through one man Adam

We are all born with a sin nature because sin entered the world through Adam

And through on man the grace and mercy can abound to the many

Jesus paid for your debt of sin and my debt of sin

Didn’t think you would show up on Sunday Morning, on Resurrection Sunday and be called and sinner in need of savior

You must first realize your own sin because without doing that you don’t think you need saved from anything

See it is through Jesus that we can experience grace and mercy

Because through Jesus’s death on the cross your debt of sin was paid for

Hebrews 7:26–27 NASB95

26 For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; 27 who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

We don’t continue march animals into the church and slaughter them to atone for your sin

To atone means - to make amends, reparation, or compensation for a wrong, offense, or error

Sin requires blood shed appease God’s judgement

And church as we have seen Jesus did that once and for all

with those 3 little words it is finished

Romans 6:6–7 NASB95

6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin.

There was no more debt to be paid for sin

Because of His death I am no longer slaves to sin

Because of Jesus’s death you are no longer slaves to sin

That is what the death of Jesus accomplished

And that brings us to this morning

This day is what sets Christianity apart from every other religion on the face of the earth

Luke 24:1–6 NASB95

1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; 5 and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 “He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,

They ladies Mary and the other Mary were going to the tomb to finish the burial process

They were going to finish caring for the dead body of their friend and teacher Jesus

As they come up to the tomb they find that the stone which was used to seal the tomb where Jesus was laid has been rolled away

Curiosity gets them and they go inside and realize that Jesus whom they had watched be buried in that grave is gone

I love Lukes account for 2 reasons

The first is that it says that the 2 mens stood in dazzling clothing and I dont know why but I have always thought that was awesome

Then the angels ask the ladies

Why do you seek the living among the dead

Church dead people are in the tomb

Living people don’t hangout or stay in the tombs

Living people don’t stay in graves

Jesus who was once dead is now alive

The tomb is opened not so Jesus could get out but so that we could look in and have evidence for ourselves that Jesus is no longer there

On Friday it was it is finished that changed the world

And now 3 days later He is Risen has forever changed the world

Jesus is alive and there is rejoicing in that

The shout of Joy that comes in the morning is the empty tomb

Now we could get excited because Peter and John got to experience there friend again

When someone is gone and they come back we get excited

But church the resurrection has huge implications

If Jesus’s death meant that the debt of sin was paid for

Jesus’s resurrection meant that for the first time we could defeat death in Jesus

His resurrection meant that we are no longer bound by death

That he could now take dead men and women and give them life through Him

This is what changes the entire world

Romans 6:8–9 NASB95

8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

Church this is what the resurrection of Jesus accomplished

He gave us life and life everlasting

This is what the resurrection of Christ means for us today

That sin has been paid for

That death as been defeated

Church for us this morning it means there is forgiveness at the tomb

You can have forgiveness this morning because of the resurrection of Christ

you might be wrestling with what you think is no way God can forgive me

And yet church that is exactly why He went to the cross and walked out of the tomb to forgive you of your sin and to give you a life through Him

That life we can have or already have through Him

Romans 8:11 NASB95

11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

This is what salvation is and that is what the cross and empty tomb mean

This is why we can have life because of the empty tomb

This is why we get excited during the Easter Season

It is why we preach on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

It is why we get extra excited on Resurrection Sunday because church He is alive and through Him

You and I can have life

Without the resurrection Jesus is just a good guy

A good teacher in a long line of good teachers who has since died

And yet that is not the case because we can look in the tomb and see it is not empty

He is Risen

Church because of the Cross and the empty tomb we can have life and we share that with a lost world

It is called the Gospel

The Good News is that Jesus is alive and church that changes everything

Colossians 2:12–14 NASB95

12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

This is the good news that Jesus saves

that Jesus is still in the business of taking dead men and women and giving them life because of the empty tomb

When you were dead in your transgressions

When you will still stuck in sin Jesus died for you and came back to life

When He brought you back to life through His resurrection he has completely and for all time forgiven you of all your transgressions

Praise the Lord church

that is possibly only through Jesus’s death on the cross and resurrection from the tomb 3 days later

So as we come to close this morning

We will call the band up

As they come up

Maybe you are here today and you do not have a personal relationship with Jesus

You have not repented of your sin or trusted Jesus to be Lord of your life

You are still dead in sin

This morning we would invite you to speak with someone at the front who can show you thought scripture how you can repent of your sin and trust Jesus this morning

Because this morning is for you

The resurrection is to give dead men and women life

Or maybe you already have a personal relaitonship with Jesus and you simply need to spend sometime in prayer at the alter

Or mabye there is another decision you need to make this morning

Would you be obedient

The alter is open