I've Fallen, But Its Time To Get Up!
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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.
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.
I’ve Fallen, But Its Time To Get Up!
I’ve Fallen, But Its Time To Get Up!
Growing up in church, Easter Sunday was a special day. It was special because it meant that even the poorest of people got new clothes.
It was time of Easter speeches and dying the most unique eggs.
It was also a Sunday when you knew you would see people you haven’t seen in a while, They would come because it was one of the Big-MEC Sundays that everyone attended (Mother’s Day, Easter, Christmas).
It also sticks out in my mind because I knew what the message was going to be about because it was the SAME one every year. It was so the SAME Sunday where some of the SAME people would shout on the SAME song…the preacher would creshendo around the SAME point in the message, people would pass out the SAME type of eggs and we would eat the SAME marshmellow Peeps. Of course the SAME post-church stuff was in order: stand in line at the SAME restaurant, hear family talk about the SAME folks in church, followed up by the SAME exhaustion from a long day, full stomach, and staying up on Saturday night trying to remember my Easter speech.
As much as there was a lot of sameness from year to year, the resurrection of Christ signaled that things would be drastically different for those who believed.
Of course the same post-church stuff was in order: stand in line at the SAME restaurant, hear family talk about the SAME folks in church, followed up by the SAME exhaustion from a long day, full stomach, and staying up on Saturday night trying to remember my Easter speech.
No longer do you and I have to be tormented by the things that we are trying to change...
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Its like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, “since Christ got up, you’ve always had the ability to free yourself from the old you.. EXPOUND
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
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It’s impossible to cash a check I never knew I had...
18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
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· She ate cold oatmeal because it cost money to heat it.
· When her son's leg became infected, Hattie wouldn't get it treated until she could find a clinic that wouldn't charge her. By then, her son's leg had to be amputated.
Hattie died arguing over the value of drinking skim milk. She had money to meet her every need, but her life bore no resemblance of it.
During the Great Depression, a man by the name of Mr. Ira Yates was like many other ranchers and farmers…he had a lot of land, and a lot of debt. Mr. Yates wasn’t able to make enough on his ranching operation to pay the principal and interest on the mortgage, so he was in danger of losing his ranch. With little money for clothes or food, his family (like many others) had to live on a government subsidy.
Day after day, as he grazed his sheep over those rolling West Texas hills, he was no doubt greatly troubled about how he would pay his bills. Then a seismographic crew from an oil company came into the area and told him there might be oil on his land. They asked permission to drill a wildcat well, and he signed a lease contract.
At 1,115 feet they struck a huge oil reserve. The first well came in at 80,000 barrels a day. Many subsequent wells were more than twice as large.
In fact, 30 years after the discovery, a government test of one of the wells showed it still had the potential flow of 125,000 barrels of oil a day. The day he purchased the land he had received the oil and mineral rights. Yet, he’d been living on relief. He was a multimillionaire living in poverty.
Today as we celebrate/recognize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, many are unaware…living in poverty thought they are millionaires!
So what is it the information we need to know?
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
VOLUNTARY SUBSTITUTION
VOLUNTARY SUBSTITUTION
16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
John said its because he voluntarily laid down his life for us.
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.” ( ESV)
Ü We know that the wages of sin is death but if that is the case, it seems questionable that the Christ who was born sinless should die as if he sinned.
Ü John said its because he voluntarily laid down his life for us.
(APPLICATION)
There is that word again....”ought”. We see that in when Jesus washes his disciples’ feet. EXPOUND
Paul says to us let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus “Phillipians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
Paul says to us “let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus...” Phillipians 2:6
SUFFICIENT OFFERING
SUFFICIENT OFFERING
Because his sacrifice was sufficient, you and I don’t need to add anything.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
If you have ever have talked with a jaded spouse/couple dealing with infidelity or adultery, the constant theme that surfaces is that there seems to be “no amount of good that can satisfy or cover up the hurt.”
Because of this feeling, the offending spouse routinely feels that there will never be a deed that can satisfy the hurt or reverse the wrong.
In our offense of God (doing what we wanted to do before coming to him), John said Jesus was sent to be the PROPITIATION for our sins.
We no longer have to carry the burden of both guilt and debt, but that we can be fully forgiven.
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
LEGITIMATE JUSTIFICATION
LEGITIMATE JUSTIFICATION
I am convinced that many folks, even in the body of Christ, don’t approach Jesus for help because this feeling of inadequacy.
“Its not what other say about you that bothers you but it what you continue to repeat to yourself that hinders you.”
Folks understand that Jesus died on the Cross and rose on the 3rd day, but that fact remains inadequate to help people lived transformed lives. EXPOUND…lives of Joy, not looking over your shoulder, thinking somebody is trying to get over on you.
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
JUSTIFICATION = ATONEMENT
JUSTIFICATION describes what happens when a JUDGE makes a legal determination that the prisoner is not liavle to any penalty demanded by law and should be treated as if he had never broken it!
If we are justified by faith in Christ, what prevents us from living victorious lives?
What prevents us from praying with confidence such that our heavenly father hears us?
What stops us from claiming victory over the situation
Because his sacrifice was sufficient, you and I don’t need to add anything.
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
If you have ever have talked with a jaded spouse/couple dealing with infidelity or adultery, the constant theme that surfaces is that there seems to be “no amount of good that can satisfy or cover up the hurt.”
Because of this feeling, the offending spouse routinely feels that there will never be a deed that can satisfy the hurt or reverse the wrong.
In our offense of God (doing what we wanted to do before coming to him), John said Jesus was sent to be the PROPITIATION for our sins.
We no longer have to carry the burden of both guilt and debt, but that we can be fully forgiven.
Ü I am convinced that many folks, even in the body of Christ, don’t approach Jesus for help because this feeling of inadequacy.
Ü “Its not what other say about you that bothers you but it what you continue to repeat to yourself that hinders you.”
Ü Folks understand that Jesus died on the Cross and rose on the 3rd day, but that fact remains inadequate to help people lived transformed lives. EXPOUND…lives of Joy, not looking over your shoulder, thinking somebody is trying to get over on you.
Ü (ESV) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ü JUSTIFICATION = ATONEMENT
Ü JUSTIFICATION describes what happens when a JUDGE makes a legal determination that the prisoner is not liavle to any penalty demanded by law and should be treated as if he had never broken it!
Ü If we are justified by faith in Christ, what prevents us from living victorious lives?
Ü What prevents us from praying with confidence such that our heavenly father hears us?
Ü What stops us from claiming victory over the situation
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
1cor 15
5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
HOPE
HOPE
FREEDOM
FREEDOM
Jesus Christ’s resurrection was a demonstration of God’s power
Jesus Christ’s resurrection was a demonstration of God’s power
The power of God the Father
The power of God the Father
ESV18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
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The power of the Holy Spirit
The power of the Holy Spirit
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The resurrection confirmed Jesus Christ as the Son of God
The resurrection confirmed Jesus Christ as the Son of God
John calls Jesus Christ’s miracles “signs” (see also ; ) and his resurrection is the climax, confirming his identity beyond all doubt; :4See also ;
this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “ ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
The centrality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
The centrality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ
As the basis of faith
As the basis of faith
ESV14 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.
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As the basis of believers’ justification
As the basis of believers’ justification
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34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
As the basis of Christian hope
As the basis of Christian hope
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As the basis of believers’ resurrection
As the basis of believers’ resurrection
The Law of Moses () provided for an offering of the firstfruits of crops to God. The firstfruits were the guarantee of the full harvest to come. The NT sees the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the firstfruits of the full ingathering of all God’s people when Jesus Christ comes again.See also ; ;