Sermon Tone Analysis

The Victory We Have In the Risen Christ

Noel Merrick Gth, Pastor/Teacher

I. Introductory Remarks.

As Christians we are celebrating the most triumphant and victorious day in the history of mankind.

This is the day Jesus defeated death and hell and gave us as His people a sense of immortality.

As we celebrate this great and significant event that took place almost 2000 years ago, I would like to focus our hearts on, in this message, the victory that Jesus accomplished through His death, burial and resurrection.

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The Death and Suffering of Jesus.

Before we can really appreciate the victory that we have in Jesus Christ, because of His resurrection, we need to fully comprehend and understand the amount of suffering He went through on our behalf and the great price that He paid for our victory.

Matthew's gospel, in Chapters 26 & 27, gives us a detailed description of the suffering that Jesus went through for us.

In these two chapters of scripture we find many of the sufferings that Jesus endured on our behalf so that we could have the victory we now have in Him.

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He was betrayed by one of His disciples.

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He suffered an agonizing night in the garden of Gethsemane.

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He watched as one of his most beloved and loyal disciples denied Him three times.

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He faced the Sanhedrin where the chief priests and elders rejected His testimony.

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He endured the crucifixion and the nailing to the cross.

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The greatest price He probably paid was that of being rejected for a time by His own Heavenly Father when He cried out "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me".

The Book of Isaiah gives us a vivid account of the suffering that Jesus would go through because of the sins of mankind.

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The Death, Burial and Resurrection: The Purpose for Which Jesus Came.

Although Jesus accomplished many wonderful things in the few short years that He had among the people as God in the flesh, it was this moment in His life and ministry for which he was sent for.

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It was at this moment on the cross that Jesus was actually taking on the sins of the world.

he was, in fact, becoming sin for us.

Jesus, at this moment in time, was now taking the sins of mankind upon Himself by becoming sin, and God could no longer look upon Him and it was in this moment of darkness that He cried out with a loud cry, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?"

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The Victory that Was Accomplished Through the Cross and The Resurrection.

When Jesus went to the cross and then rose from the dead, He accomplished a great victory for mankind.

In this portion of the message I want to look at some of the things that He as accomplished for us so that we can walk in the fullness of the victory He has made available to us.

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We Have Been Delivered From Death And Hell And Given A Sense Of Immortality.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was the greatest victory that has ever taken place, because in His resurrection, we have now been delivered from death and hell.

Death is one of the things people fear the most, but because of Jesus' resurrection and victory that was accomplished through it, we can have peace with God and hope for the future.

There is no sting in death.

2. We Have Been Given A Living Hope And An Incorruptible Inheritance.

This hope is a very powerful element in our lives as it holds us steady during the many storms of life and causes to grow and mature in Him as He desires.

3. We Have Power And Victory Over The Devil.

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The following illustration illustrates this truth very well for us:

In his book "Forever Triumphant", F.J. Huegel told a story that came out of World War II.

After General Jonathan Wainwright was captured by the Japanese, he was held prisoner in a Manchurian concentration camp.

Cruelly treated, he became "a broken, crushed, hopeless, starving man."

Finally the Japanese surrendered and the war ended.

A United States army colonel was sent to the camp to announce personally to the general that Japan had been defeated and that he was free and in command.

After Wainwright heard the news, he returned to his quarters and was confronted by some guards who began to mistreat him as they had done in the past.

Wainwright, however, with the news of the allied victory still fresh in his mind, declared with authority, "No, I am in command here!

These are my orders."

Huegel observed that from that moment on, General Wainwright was in control.

Huegel made this application: "Have you been informed of the victory of your Savior in the greatest conflict of the ages?... Then rise up to assert your rights... Never again go under when the enemy comes to oppress.

Claim the victory in Jesus' Name."

Huegel observed, "We must learn to stand on resurrection ground, reckoning dead the old-creation life over which Satan has power, and living in the new creation over which Satan has no power whatever."

4. We Have Been Given Victory Over Sin.

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5. We Have Been Given Great Power As A Result Of The Resurrection.

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V. Concluding Remarks.

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We must confess this great victory that Jesus has accomplished for us and walk in it understanding that this is the manner in which the Holy Spirit is working in our lives.

2. We should live no longer to ourselves but unto Him who died and rose again.

3. We should seek those things which are above where Christ is as well as setting our mind and affections on the things above, rather than the thing of the world.

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death – that is not the great thing – but that we are to live here and now by the power of the resurrection; not so much that we are to live forever as that we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever."

(Phillip Brooks)

I encourage you today to allow Jesus to complete His victory in your lives by receiving Him as Lord and Savior and giving yourselves 100% to Him for His service.

Dare To Believe

The Path to Restored Faith & Belief

I. Introductory Remarks.

· Easter is the day we as Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

· This is the most significant event that ever took place in the history of our faith.

· It is an event that has given to us the measurement of time as we know it.

· Time as we know it was divided by this great and momentous event.

· So let us celebrate this day and give glory to the one who has conquered death for every man, because it is the resurrection of Jesus Christ that our faith is based on.

In this message, I want you to see the hope that we as Christians have in Jesus Christ.

The message of the resurrection of Christ has something for everyone, believer and unbeliever alike.

The resurrection of Jesus...

· is a message of salvation to all of those who are lost and without hope in this life.

· is a message of hope to all who have failed God in one way or another.

· is a message of restored faith and belief to those who have given up.

· is a message of joy and peace to those who are sinking in the mire of self pity and despair.

· is a message of purpose and destiny to those who are without direction and meaning in this life.

· is a message of Christ's compassion and mercy in His dealings with mankind.

· is a message of who Christ is.

As the disciples failed to perceive the true nature of Christ prior to His resurrection, He uses the power of His resurrection to reveal His full nature.

The disciples and followers of Jesus who had been with Him prior to His crucifixion experienced all of these feelings and emotions that were just mentioned because of His death and the events leading up to it.

These are also common emotions that each one of us deals with from time to time.

Interactive Question

What kind of extreme emotions have you experienced?

A. Total despair and bitterness from a sense of loss or failure.

B. A sense of hopelessness and loss of faith

C. Depression and despair due to loss of purpose & destiny

D. All of the above

My desire it that you would allow the message of Christ's resurrection minister and heal the area in your life that is in need of attention.

Through the power of His resurrection He is able to touch you today because He is alive forevermore!

My prayer is that through this message, you will be able to grasp the significance of what took place on this momentous day in the history of our planet – so momentous that time as we know it has been divided by this historical event.

· The week of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection was a week that began with tremendous excitement and great expectations for these early followers of Christ.

· The followers of Jesus were ready to crown Him as their King, only to have all of their hopes and expectations crushed because of His death.

· They were unable to grasp the significance of what was taking place.

Their belief in Christ was so shattered that even after His resurrection they were slow to believe.

All of Jesus' disciples and other followers forsook Him, one betrayed Him and one denied Him. says they all forsook Him.

They had lost hope in the One who came to redeem them from the curse of the law.

Peter was mired in self-pity and despair.

They had given up all to follow Christ

and now they were filled with bitterness and total disillusionment.

They no longer had the direction or meaning to life

that they had experienced during the 3 1/2 years they had been with Jesus.

They were now lost and without hope.

They were in need of a Savior.