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10 For you will not leave my soul among the dead
or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.
19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” 21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.
We are celebrating Pascha today, and for those of you who don’t know what that is, it is what the Greeks and Latins call Easter. I don’t much like saying Easter because that name is linked to the worshipping of the Goddess Ishtar or Easter, which was a pagan holiday celebrated during the spring equinox. This false goddess was the goddess of fertility and sex. Bunnys and eggs were used as signs for the goddess because it represented rebirth (fertility) and what they would often do is paint the eggs to celebrate the coming in of spring and the rebirth of plants and crops. That’s why we don’t particularly care to use the word Easter, I like to use Resurrection Day or Pascha which is what this day was called by early christians. Pascha is also the equivalent to Passover. As a Christian, why do we celebrate or why should we celebrate the passover? Because Jesus was our Paschal Lamb, he was the lamb that Moses prophesied of and every true Christian believer has the blood of Christ applied to the door post of their hearts. So we thank God for blessing us to see another Resurrection Day/Pascha.
31 For I swear, dear brothers and sisters, that I face death daily. This is as certain as my pride in what Christ Jesus our Lord has done in you.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. 2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.
3 I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. 4 He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.
1 Cor 15:
A remainder, of the Good News that had been preached before.
This good news will save you if you continue to believe in its message. What message of Good News?
That Jesus died for our sins (He paid the price for our sins) just as the scriptures foretold. What Scriptures?
1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:1-5
1 Who has believed our message?
To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?
2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
3 He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
That Jesus was buried and he was raised again from the dead:
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
He was seen by a host of witnesses numbering over 500 people.
He was seen by a host of witnesses numbering over 500 people.
The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation of our belief as Christians. That is why Satan tries to attack that foundation, because he knows that if he can attack a persons foundational belief the whole house will come down.
The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the foundation of our belief as Christians. That is why Satan tries to attack that foundation, because he knows that if he can attack a persons foundational belief the whole house will come down.
How does Satan attack the foundation? By getting you to doubt any of the three parts that are vital to our faith, again the three necessary components are the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Death: I have heard false doctrines that claimed that Jesus didn’t die on the cross, that God wouldn’t allow one of his prophets to suffer such a death. I have even heard unbelievers say that Jesus never really existed. Other times I have heard people say that Jesus was fully dead when they buried him. However, when you look at the scriptures, all the scriptures point to the fact that Jesus died.
Buried: He was buried, they didn’t do a body swap, he was buried and sealed up into a tomb.
Resurrected: No one came and stole his body away, Jesus didn’t have a stunt double portraying him, and no Jesus was not a spirit or an apparition, Jesus was dead for three days, but the scripture declares that God raised him from the dead. He came back to life, he had a physical body that could be touched and handled.
Our salvation, our deliverance, our healing comes from the fact of Jesus’ resurrection:
The salvation, healing, and deliverance was a direct result of the gospel being preached. In a sense it was God putting his approval upon the gospel that the apostles preached.
The apostles were ambassadors of the kingdom of God. Their mission was to preach the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ they were fulfilling the mandate that Jesus gave to them to preach repentance and the kingdom of God.
The miracles that the Apostles performed, let the people know who heard the gospel that what they were preaching was true and authentic.
10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Remember that Isaiah prophesied, that the Messiah/Christ would be beaten so that we could be made whole, he would be whipped so that we could receive healing. That’s the good news that should be presented today, it’s good news to know that if your broken you can be made whole. There are a lot of things that can break us, we can be broken physically, we can be broken mentally, we can be broken spiritually. There are traumatic experiences that can break us, there are diseases that can break us, there are demonic oppressions, and forces of evil that can leave us broken, but the good news today is that Jesus took a beating for you so that you could be made whole. All you have to do is grasp ahold of what Christ has done in faith, ask God to make you whole, seek God until he makes you whole, and praise Him in advance for making you whole.
When Jesus took the stripes, when his back was ripped open, he took that so that you could be healed! Healing is available to you today, I want you to know the greatest disease that is plaguing this world is the disease of sin. It is where drunkeness comes from, it is where drug addiction stems from, it is where hatred stems from, it is where murder stems from, it is where bodily disease stem from, all because the sin of Adam. But the good news today is that Jesus stripes, his blood, his sacrifice can heal you of all those things!
Going back to the text:
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
1 Cor 15:12-
At the very onset of Christianity, there were doubters and naysayers who did not believe in the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ. There were some that were masquerading in the church like Christians but they were Sadducees, and if you know the history of the sadducees, they did not believe in the resurrection. Why? Because they thought that the concept of resurrection was absent in Old Testament Theology. But Jesus proved them wrong in their rationality as one day he says:
At the very onset of Christianity, there were doubters and naysayers who did not believe in the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ. There were some that were masquerading in the church like Christians but they were Sadducees, and if you know the history of the sadducees, they did not believe in the resurrection. Why? Because they thought that the concept of resurrection was absent in Old Testament Theology. But Jesus proved them wrong in their rationality as one day he says:
29 Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.
31 “But now, as to whether there will be a resurrection of the dead—haven’t you ever read about this in the Scriptures? Long after Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had died, God said, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ So he is the God of the living, not the dead.”
Matthew 22:
42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. 43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. 44 They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.
1 Cor 15:
Jesus’ resurrection was a prelude for every believer to look forward to:
Jesus’ body was buried in brokenness, but was raised in glory.
Jesus’ body was buried in weakness, but it was raised in strength.
Jesus’ body was buried as a natural human body, but was raised as a spiritual body.
11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
21 He will take our weak mortal bodies and change them into glorious bodies like his own, using the same power with which he will bring everything under his control.
When God raised Jesus from the dead, it was God’s final proof that Jesus’ ministry was legit. The religious leaders had denied him, lied against him, falsely accused him, plotted against him, and ultimately killed him, but God still got the glory! It seemed like Jesus was defeated, it seemed like Jesus was out for the count, but God raised him from the dead and that is the hope that we have as believers!
As believers, you are gonna have people, things, principalities that will come against you, your gonna have some lies told on you, you’re gonna be falsely accused, people are gonna plot against you, Satan and the demon’s of hell are gonna plot against you, but you must remember what the word says “No weapon formed against me shall prosper” and Jesus said “Upon this rock I’ll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. If you are in Christ and if Christ’s spirit is residing in you, then you need to declare the word of the LORD that the “Gates of Hell shall not prevail”!
Paul said:
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,
Christ suffered, but after he suffered he was exalted! When God raised Him from the dead, the scriptures declare that God highly exalted him, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (). He’s King and He’s in Control! And if He’s in control then:
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.
Soon and very soon, all of this suffering is going to be over, all of this disappointment is going to be over, all of this pain is going to be over, sin is going to be over, demons going to be over, Satan is going to be over!
16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
2 Cor 4:16-18
25 He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.
We got to look to Jesus, we got to keep our eyes focused on Jesus and focused on glory!
It’s no time for us to be fixated on all of these other things because they are temporal. I’m glad about that this morning that this stuff we dealing with today it’s only temporary....God is going to bring us out after awhile.
When you start feeling discouraged, when you start feeling fearful, when you start to feel like you want to throw in the towel, take another look.....a look at what? A look at Jesus!
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
2 We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne. 3 Think of all the hostility he endured from sinful people; then you won’t become weary and give up.