THE POWER OF THE RESSURECTION

Arthur Wilder

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1. WHY DID CHRIST COME

A. THE TWO WORLDS

i. The world of God / Love This is the world before the fall of man

ii. The world of Self / Self-righteousness - Law This is the world after the fall of man

i. The world of God / Love This is the world before the fall of man

ii. The world of Self / Self-righteousness - Law This is the world after the fall of man

B. JESUS DIED UNDER THE WORLD OF SELF TO DELIVER US FROM THE WORLD OF SELF

i. It was self interest that nailed Jesus to the cross

Matthew 27:18 NIV - Anglicised

For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.

ii. God sent his Son, born under law to redeem those under the law.

Galatians 4:4–5 NIV - Anglicised

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.

2. WHY THE RESURRECTION

1. IT PROVES THE POWER OF GOD

i. To believe in the resurrection is to believe in God.

ii. Only he who created life can bring about to life again

iii. Nobody can bring life from the dead except God

i. To believe in the resurrection is to believe in God.

ii. Only he who created life can bring about to life again

iii. Nobody can bring life from the dead except God

I am the resurrection and the life

John 11:25–26 NIV - Anglicised

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

2. IT VALIDATES THE CLAIMS OF CHRIST TO BE GOD

I and the Father are one

John 10:30–33 NIV - Anglicised

I and the Father are one.” Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?” “We are not stoning you for any of these,” replied the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

If you have seen me, you have seen the Father

John 14:9 NIV - Anglicised

Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Before Abraham was born, I AM

John 8:58 NIV - Anglicised

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

, Word was God

John 1:1–3 NIV - Anglicised

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

NIV The Word Became Flesh

John 1:14 NIV - Anglicised

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

God the One and Only

John 1:18 NIV - Anglicised

No-one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.

You are the Son of God

John 1:47–51 NIV - Anglicised

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false.” “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig-tree before Philip called you.” Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.” Jesus said, “You believe because I told you I saw you under the fig-tree. You shall see greater things than that.” He then added, “I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

ii. IT VALIDATES THE CLAIMS OF CHRIST TO BE THE SON OF GOD

Calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God

John 5:18 NIV - Anglicised

For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

My Father will love him and we will come

John 14:23 NIV - Anglicised

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

iii. IT VALIDATES THE CLAIMS OF CHRIST TO BE THE MESSIAH

Are you the one?

Matthew 11:3–5 NIV - Anglicised

to ask him, “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

You have said it...

Matthew 26:63–64 NIV - Anglicised

But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” “Yes, it is as you say,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: In the future you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

You are right in saying I AM...

Luke 22:70 NIV - Anglicised

They all asked, “Are you then the Son of God?” He replied, “You are right in saying I am.”

3. PROVES HIS AUTHORITY OVER THE TEMPLE becuase He was driving out the money changers.

3. PROVES HIS AUTHORITY OVER THE TEMPLE

Destroy this temple and I will raise it in 3 days

John 2:18–22 NIV - Anglicised

Then the Jews demanded of him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?” Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

4. PROVES HIS SINLESS CHARACTER & DIVINE NATURE

Nor Let his HOLY ONE see decay

Psalm 16:10 NIV - Anglicised

because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

Nor Let his HOLY ONE see decay

5. IT PROVES THE DIETY OF CHRIST AND VALIDATES OLD TESTAMENT PROPHESIES OF HIM

Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead

Mark 8:31 NIV - Anglicised

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Betrayed, Killed, Raised after Three Days

Mark 9:31 NIV - Anglicised

because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”

mocked, spit on, flogged, killed, raised from the dead

Mark 10:34 NIV - Anglicised

who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.”

17 – And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:14–19 NIV - Anglicised

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.

6. IT PROVES JESUS POWER OVER DEATH.

I hold The keys of death and the grave

Revelation 1:18 NIV - Anglicised

I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

3. FOUR THINGS REQUIRED TO ACCESS THE RESURRECTION LIFE OF GOD

1. You died with Christ

Baptized into his death

Romans 6:3 NIV - Anglicised

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?

Anyone who has died has been freed from sin

Romans 6:6–7 NIV - Anglicised

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

2. You Were Raised with Christ

Just as Christ was raised so we can have him new life

Romans 6:4 NIV - Anglicised

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

We were raised with Christ

Colossians 2:12–14 NIV - Anglicised

having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having cancelled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.

3. You Have New Life

We too may live a new life

Romans 6:4 NIV - Anglicised

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Christ will also give life to your mortal bodies

Romans 8:11 NIV - Anglicised

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

4. You Are No longer Under The Power Of Sin.

We died to sin, how can we live in it any longer

Romans 6:1–4 NIV - Anglicised

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning, so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Power of sin is the law

1 Corinthians 15:56 NIV - Anglicised

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Released from the law-serve in the new way of the Spirit

Romans 7:6 NIV - Anglicised

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

B. LIVING IN THE RESURRECTED LIFE REQUIRES LORDSHIP... THE I AM...

i. COUNT THE COST

COUNT THE COST

The cost of being a disciple

Luke 14:25–35 NIV - Anglicised

Large crowds were travelling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’ “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure heap; it is thrown out. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

The cost of being a disciple

We are to make disciples- not converts

Matthew 28:18–20 NIV - Anglicised

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow...

Mark 8:31–38 NIV - Anglicised

He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

ii. CONFESS JESUS AS LORD

CONFESS JESUS AS LORD

ii. CONFESS JESUS AS LORD

If you confess Jesus as Lord

Romans 10:9–10 NIV - Anglicised

That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

If you confess Jesus as Lord

Acknowledges me before men.

Matthew 10:32–33 NIV - Anglicised

“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.

iii. RUN TO WIN

RUN TO WIN

Run in such a way as to get the prize

1 Corinthians 9:24–27 NIV - Anglicised

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last for ever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.

Run in such a way as to get the prize

He wants to please his commanding officer

2 Timothy 2:3–5 NIV - Anglicised

Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No-one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules.

He wants to please his commanding officer

WHAT SHOULD BE YOUR RESPONSE?

RESPOND TO THE GOOD NEWS BY GIVING IT YOUR ALL

HOW TO GIVE IT YOUR ALL....

If he was willing to give his all, what should my response be?

Decide To Be All In!

Those who go halfway never experience the power of real christianity luke warm

Revelation 3:14–16 NIV - Anglicised

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

him

Fully accept the message of the good news of Christ

Accept the message of the good news of Christ

Those who accepted the message him were baptized

Acts 2:41 NIV - Anglicised

Those who accepted his message were baptised, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Confess and Believe

Romans 10:9–10 NIV - Anglicised

Be Baptized

Be baptized

Be Baptized

Those who accepted the message him were baptized

Acts 2:41 NIV - Anglicised

Those who accepted his message were baptised, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Pledge of a good conscience

1 Peter 3:21 NIV - Anglicised

and this water symbolises baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience towards God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

4 THINGS TO EMPOWER YOU TO CONTINUE IN YOUR NEW LIFE.

4 THINGS TO EMPOWER YOU TO CONTINUING IN YOUR NEW LIFE.

4 THINGS TO EMPOWER YOU TO CONTINUE IN YOUR NEW LIFE.

1. CONTINUE IN The Word

If you continue in my word

If you

John 8:31–32 NIV - Anglicised

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, fellowship, communion

Acts 2:42 NIV - Anglicised

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, fellowship, communion

2. CONTINUE IN Fellowship

They devoted themselves to fellowship

Acts 2:42 NIV - Anglicised

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Everyday they met together

Acts 2:46 NIV - Anglicised

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

3. CONTINUE TO EAT TOGETHER AND TAKE COMMUNION

They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread

Acts 2:42 NIV - Anglicised

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

They devoted themselves to the breaking of bread

Everyday they met together

Acts 2:46 NIV - Anglicised

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

Everyday they met together

4. CONTINUE IN PRAYER

CONTINUE IN PRAYER

And to prayer

Acts 2:42 NIV - Anglicised

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Pray without ceasing

1 Thessalonians 5:17 NIV - Anglicised

pray continually;

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