The Resurrection
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Last week we covered the darkest day in history. The day when the king of the universe was executed.
The day when it seemed the forces of darkness had won.
The day when grief and sorrow plagued the hearts of His followers as they saw the one who they believed to be the messiah, the one who they thought would defeat the Romans and establish His earthly kingdom. Their hearts were broken as they watched him who they loved die on the cross.
What they didn’t realize, is that by going to the cross, He had conquered sin and death. There now was victory, for His death was needed for us to have victory. He had established His kingdom.
Read Luke 24:1-12
Christ was Raised
Christ was Raised
This isn’t a new concept, but many people haven’t let that sink in.
How marvelous it is that our savior lives.
We don’t believe the words of Jesus becasue He died, we believe it because He was raised!!
Dying is the easy part, anyone can do that!
By Jesus being raised, it shows that what He said was true.
Romans 1:3-4
3 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
4 and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Anyone could claim to be God, that doesn’t make it true!
God declared that Jesus was indeed who He claimed to be by raising Him from the dead.
This is how we know that our believing wasn’t in vain.
I serve a risen savior, He’s in the world today
I know that he is living, whatever man may say!
Because Christ was raised, He is our hope in life and death!
Knowing that their is life after death for those who know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
1 Corinthians 15:52
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 imperishable, and we shall be changed.
If you know Jesus as your Lord and savior you have everlasting life with Christ becasue we are Justified through His work on the cross.
Justification
Justification
Romans 4:24-25
24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Jesus suffered and died for our trespasses. For all the things that we have done wrong.
He was raised for our justification.
Because Jesus rose from the dead, we know that the price of redemption had been fully paid. If it had not, Jesus would still be dead.
His resurrection is proof that God accepted the payment in full and we now have justification.
1 Corinthians 15:17
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
If Christ hadn’t been raised, we wouldn’t be justified and would still be in our sins.
But He has been raised we are free from sin.
Why Seek The Living Among The Dead?
Why Seek The Living Among The Dead?
Find this an interesting statement.
Why are you here looking for Him?
Why are you searching for a dead messiah?
Our hope cannot be in someone who is dead and gone.
If someone couldn’t save themselves, what hope would they have of saving us.
This is the joy of resurrection Sunday.
We serve a God who isn’t dead in a tomb with no hope of saving anyone.
We serve a God is has risen.
We serve a living God, who is enthroned on high.
How many Christians I see, searching for the Living among the dead.
They look for gratification in the things of this world.
Their hope is in the things of this world.
Colossians 3:1
1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
When we serve a living king, we are to set our minds where He is at.
How many times do we spend dwelling on the problems and the pressures here in this world, rather than on the things of God?
How often do we forget that behind the problems and difficulties of this life, there is a God who is still on the throne; one who still rules over all things.
How often do we just put our head down grit our teeth and get through the trial, rather than to lift our faces to God, and see what He plan is for us through that trial.
How often do we take time away for things that matter for eternity; time in the bible and prayer, for the lesser things that we deem as more important at that moment.
How often do we seek the living among the dead.
1 Peter 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
How often do we seek hope in things of this world, rather than on high.
Hope in the Greek means an expectation of things that are coming.
Jesus is raised, therefore we don’t just have a desire that we might rise.
But our hope is an expectation placed in the living one. That we will rise just as He had risen.
For He is our living hope.
OUR GOD IS NOT DEAD
He is on high
We place our hope in the one who is alive evermore interceding for us at the Fathers side!
Because He has been raised. We have an inheritance, one that will never fade, one in heaven.
Yet we forget about this and place our hope in the stock market, in our carriers, in our spouses, in our kids and grand kids.
Hoping that they will not let us down, hoping that they won’t fail. Hoping that they will never leave us, never forsake us, never let us down when that is a job description belonging to God alone! OUR LIVING HOPE!
I’m not saying that having those things is wrong, but if that is where our hope is, we are seeking to obtain something from the dead that can only be given by the living.
Seeking to get from the world, only what God can give.
We have victory, not through our works, but we have victory in Jesus who was raised for our justification.
Today is a day set aside to remember what Jesus has done. But this day and others; let us remember that He is alive, becasue of this we are justified. Because He is alive, let us not look to the pitiful things in this world, trying to stitch together a life in which we manage to “get by.” But let us look to Jesus, the living one, who makes us new. For we are now new creations in Him.