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Of the accounts of the Resurrection that we read, this one by far is my favorite.
I love the close, and very emotional interactions between Mary and Jesus, and between Thomas and Jesus
On Friday night, we read the story of the crucifixion.
And I said, can you imagine the devastation that Jesus’ closest followers and family must have felt
As He was tortured and killed.
But now, just 3 days later, can you imagine the relief that they must be feeling.
I mean, their heads must be spinning at all that has taken place.
The Apostle John is coming to the end of his account of the life of Jesus, and now he lets us in on why he sat down to record the life of Jesus.
verse 31
These are written so that you may…what?
be informed?
So that you may say, “Wow, what a great story!
That Jesus was quite the guy!”
So that you would have a good example to copy
So that you might believe.
I believe that John is talking here about all that he has written so far in his Gospel.
He wrote all of this down, not just for a historical record, but so
So that we might believe.
And that in our belief, we may have LIFE in His name.
And so there are two questions in front of us today:
Do you believe?
Have you found life?
True and abundant life?
And really, these are not two different questions.
It is one question sort of in two parts.
Because when it comes to the kind of life that we are talking about here, you can’t have that life if you don’t believe.
of particular interest to us today is the resurrection of Jesus.
Do you believe in the resurrection of Jesus, and have you found the life that comes from believing in the resurrection?
If you are thinking, “yeah, I believe in the resurrection”
But on the other hand, you are saying, “But when it comes to the life that Jesus talked about in John 10, and the life that John seems to be talking about…well, I’m not sure.
I mean, I asked Jesus into my heart, and I believe as well as I can that I’m going to heaven when I die, but I don’t know about this abundant life bit”.
If that’s you this morning, that I would challenge you to consider whether you really believe or not.
Because what John is talking about here, and the abundant life that Jesus talked about in chapter 10 verse 10, is more than a “going to heaven when I die”, although that is important.
It is an experiential belief.
A belief that is active and life changing.
As a pilot in Mozambique, I had a lot of people in my plane that had never flown before.
Other people, especially “westerners”, were experienced flyers but had never been in a small plane before.”
Some of them had this fear of flying
Now, I never really did this, but maybe I could have quizzed them a little bit.
I could have asked them, so what is it that you are scared of?
Do you believe that I’m a good and knowledgeable pilot and that I will make good decisions and get us there safely?
Do you believe that the airplane will stay in the sky?
That it is well-maintained?
And they could have said,
Sure, we believe that you are a good pilot and will make good decisions
Sure, we believe that the airplane is well-maintained and will stay in the sky
But then could have still refused to get in the airplane and put their belief into experience.
But it was those folks who actually got in the plane, nervously strapped in, hung on, and gave me a big thumbs up during the flight
And who got out at the destination, shook my hand, and thanked me for the great flight
It was those folks for whom belief was now rooted in experience
And when it comes to the resurrection, that is my question this morning.
Have you experienced the resurrection?
Is your belief rooted in experience?
I believe that this what John is concerned about as well.
Do you believe in the resurrection, and has that belief been rooted in experience?
Is it going into your heart?
Maybe you still aren’t sure.
What does it look like for belief in the resurrection to go beyond head knowledge and into experience?
Well, again there is a lot we could talk about
Paul gives us a glimpse of this in Romans 8.
Paul is explaining in this chapter that we have been set free from the sinful nature so that we are free to walk after the Spirit instead of after the flesh
Romans 8:5-11 “5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”
There are a number of things that Paul gives us as indications that the Resurrection of Jesus is changing our experience.
The Resurrection should change the way we think
Romans 8:5 “5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”
The Resurrection should change what we think about.
Or, what we “set our mind upon”.
What we fixate on.
What we are controlled by
What is it that you think about?
For guys, it could be women
It could be money that we think about constantly
How to make it
How to save it
How to make the business succeed
It could be sports
We just came through March madness and I thought about my bracket a lot.
For an athlete to succeed at the highest level, his or her mind must be on their sport every day from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed
Even when they aren’t actively training, their mind still is on their sport, controlling what they do and how they live
What I believe Paul is telling us in Romans is that the resurrection should change what we think about
Those who live according to the Spirit “set their minds on the things of the Spirit”
Literally, he is talking about “what do you aspire to?”
Simply put, they think about How can I please God today?
That is what is on their minds.
They think about things that are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise
All of these things are completely opposite from what our adversary would want us to think about, and sometimes, maybe all the time it is a battle
But the resurrection should transform our mind, our thinking.
Romans 12 calls it “the renewing of the mind”.
It’s like new skin growing over a wound, it’s like restoring an old car or an old house.
Those old things that used to be on our minds, lustful thoughts, the pursuit of wealth, bitterness, all those things start to disappear from our thinking
Replaced with those things that please God.
The things of the Spirit.
Those things that are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise
The Resurrection changes the way we live, what we do
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