It's all about the Resurrection
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Easter Service 2nd Service
04-04-2021
Welcome to our normal worship service this morning
I hope you all didn’t eat to much so that you do not fall asleep this morning
This morning during our first service we talked about cheap grace vs amazing Grace
If you will recall grace is defined as getting what you do not deserve
Church and we are getting salvation for those who have repented and trusted in Jesus
This service was going to be on the amazingness of Gods Grace that we live under but we already talked about that
But the amazingness of what we celebrate should be what we celebrate everyday and every Sunday
Church it is the thing that sets us apart from any other religion
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact 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 worthless; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.
The thing that sets us apart from anyone else in the entire world is the resurrection
There are countless other religions that have had a central figure and that figure has died
But no other religion has their god sent there son to die for them and then brought their son back to life
No where does that happened expect in Christ
Church this is amazing
It is all about the resurrection
Paul says it that if Christ did not rise from the dead then you and I are still in our sins
If Christ did not rise then you and I are false teachers and actually preaching against God if in fact God did not raise Jesus from the grave
But we know the truth don't we church
God did raise Jesus from the grave
It is why we are no longer slaves to sin
It is why we now live in freedom and not slavery
Church we have testimony from the ladies who went to finish the body for burial
Even they missed when Jesus said He would be back
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; 5 and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? 6 “He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.” 8 And they remembered His words, 9 and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles. 11 But these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they would not believe them. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.
One of the best pieces of scriptures we have read
This is the account of when Jesus rose from the grave
Praise the Lord church this is what it is all about this morning
and church to be honest every morning
Everything hinges on Jesus not being there
When the ladies went to finish the body for burial they found the stone rolled away
The tomb was open so they could look into
The tomb was open so that you and I could look into and see that Jesus is no longer there
Church because if Jesus didn’t raise from the grave and beat death there is nothing for us here today but we know that is not true
Those ladies went and told the apostles that Jesus was alive and some of them went running back to see for themselves that our Lord was alive
Church this is what gives us hope
This is what gives us life
This is why we can go out to the world and proclaim that Jesus is alive because He is
Paul writes this
1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; 7 then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; 8 and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Paul writes to the church at Corinthian about the fact that Jesus did raise from the grave
Again church the good News of Jesus that you and I can and should share with the world that Jesus saves all hinges on the fact that Jesus is alive
Because since Jesus is alive we can have life
Church this is what we preach to the world
6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Church this is what we preach to the world that because Jesus is alive you and I can have life in and through Jesus
That is the good news
and just over about 2000 years ago when the ladies went and found the empty tomb they were witnesses to this verse
These verses go out into the world
Church we can live in freedom because we have Christ who is alive
do you understand that because of the resurrection we can go out and share with others
We can have life
It all hinges on the resurecction