Sermon Tone Analysis

*                                                         The Resurrection *

*                                               Ho 13:14*  *               Part 2 of 3*                          3~/16~/08 a.m.

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*In this series of messages on the Resurrection we will look at 3 areas;*

*First – the purpose of the Resurrection*

*Second - the privilege of the Resurrection*

*Third – the proof of the Resurrection*

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*The privilege of the Resurrection *

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*The Resurrection *

*Ho 13:14*  “I will *ransom *them *from the power of the grave;*

                 I will *redeem *them* from death.*

O Death, 2I will be your plagues!

/(where is your punishment?)/

                 O Grave, 4I will be your destruction!

(/where is your sting?)/

                  Pity is hidden from My eyes.”



*1 Co 15:50-57*   50 Now this I say, brethren, that  flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery:  We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

 For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal /must/ put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written:  /“Death is swallowed up in victory.”/

55     /“O Death, where is your sting?

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     /O Hades, where is your victory?” /

56 The sting of death /is/ sin, and the strength of sin /is/ the law.

57 But thanks /be/ to God, who gives us  the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

*Jn 5:28-29*  28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will  hear His voice 29  and come forth—  those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

*Resurrection* is a rising to life from death for the saved

                        and a rising from death to condemnation for the lost.

*The purpose of the resurrection for the Christian is to rescue us from death, hell, and the grave*

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*The privilege of the Resurrection *

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            Because He lives – we have *blessings*; glory & rewards

*Joy* – He has triumphed over death; eternal life

*Peace* – our sins have been forgiven; fellowship w~/God  

*Purpose* – He walks with us every day; live w~/God   

*Love* – His presence fills our hearts; in His presence

*Hope* – He is coming again; He kept His word

 

*Because He lives – *

*we have blessings; glory & rewards*

 

*The Resurrection is an emblem of the new birth.

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*Col** 2:11-15*.

11 In Him you were also  circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12  buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with /Him/ through  faith in the working of God,  who raised Him from the dead.

13 *And you*, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh,* He has made alive together with Him,* having forgiven you all trespasses, 14  having wiped out the 9handwriting of requirements (/certificate of debt with its) /that was against us, which was contrary to us.

And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

15  Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

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*The Resurrection Gives eternal life     *

*Re 20:6*   *Blessed and holy /is/ he who has part in the first resurrection*.

Over such  the second death has no power, but they shall be  priests of God and of Christ,  and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

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*The Resurrection Delivers from spiritual death     *

*Re 20:11-15*    11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face  the earth and the heaven fled away.

And there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead,  small and great, standing before God,  and books were opened.

And another book was opened, which is /the Book/ of Life.

And the dead were judged  according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

13 *The sea gave up the dead who were in it,  and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.

And they were judged, each one according to his works.

14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.

 This is the second 4death/, (the lake of fire)./.

15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life  was cast into the lake of fire.

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*We have Life because of the Spirit of the resurrection*

 *Ro 8:10*   10 And if Christ /is/ in you, the body /is/ dead because of sin, but *the Spirit /is/ life* because of righteousness.



*Ro 8:11*   11 But if *the Spirit of  Him who raised Jesus from the dead* dwells in you,  He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 4through (/Or because of) /His Spirit who dwells in you.

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*The Resurrection makes our faith real – because He is risen    *

 *Jn 14:19*    19 “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but  you will see Me.  Because I live, you will live also.

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*The Resurrection is the Fulfillment of Scripture & Proves His Sonship     *

* Luke 24:45-48* 44 Then He said to them,  *“*These /are/ the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that* all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and /the/ Prophets and /the/ Psalms concerning Me*.” 45 And  He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

46 Then He said to them,  “*Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,* 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name  to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

*48** And  you are witnesses of these things.

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*Due to the fulfillment of Scripture We can have Confidence*

*Job 19:25-27*  25     For *I know /that/ my Redeemer lives*,

     *And He shall stand at last on the earth; *

*26     And after my skin is destroyed, this /I know,/ *

*     That  in my flesh I shall see God, *

*27     Whom I shall see for myself, *

*     And my eyes shall behold, and not another.

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*     /How/ my heart yearns within me! *

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*Due to the fulfillment of Scripture by the Resurrection we can know we are Accepted of God*

*Ps 49:15*   15     But God  will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,

                          For *He shall  receive me.*

 

*The Resurrection helps us concerning sorrow*

*1 Th 4:13*    13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, *concerning those who*

*                         have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others  who have no hope.

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*Is 25:8-9*    8     *He will  swallow up death forever*,

     And *the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; *

     The rebuke of His people

     He will take away from all the earth;

     For the Lord has spoken.

9     And it will be said in that day:

     “Behold, this /is/ our God;

     We have waited for Him, and He will save us.

This /is/ the Lord;

     We have waited for Him;

*      We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

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*The Resurrection destroys or /abolishes the/ /Birth pangs of death /*

*Ac 2:23-24*    Him,  being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of

                       God, …., having 7loosed the 8pains of death,

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*Due to His resurrection we have liberty*

*Ro 8:21*   because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of

                 corruption into *the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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*His resurrection was to justify the sinner     *

*Rom.

4:25; *Jesus our Lord , 25  who was delivered up because of our offenses, and  *was*