He is Risen 2022
Death and Resurrection • Sermon • Submitted
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What do I want them to know? The hope and power of the resurrection
Why? It gives hope, life, and freedom
What do I want them do? Confess and believe, remember, preach
Why? It gives hope, life and freedom
ME/WE
Sometimes one of the ways to truly understand something, to value sometime, to remember something is to ask the question “What WOULD IT LOOK LIKE if that were not true? Or that did not happen?”
that when we do this we get a fuller revelation, deeper understanding, we know more the true value of something, and many times we are reminded of it’s worth.
We see this with the WORD freedom, we come understand freedom more and more when look at what it means to not be free.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO NOT BE FREE?
It looks like oppression, captive, enslaved, imprisoned, what helps is to a times too is too or visit or talk to friends who have lived in oppressed countries, or as we see later talk to another who is a believer in Jesus and they can tell you what it means to be enslaved, not free by the power of sin
Know the opposite of something, it gives a greater clarity as to what it is.
When we talk to them That when someone says I am FREE they are saying I am captive, I am enslaved, I am not imprisoned, I have been set FREE.
ASKING THE QUESTION “WHAT IF THIS IS NOT TRUE?” GIVE US CLARITY, REMEMBERANCE, AND GREATER TO REVELATION TO WHAT SOMETHING IS.
THE REASON I BRING THIS UP, IS IT IS GOOD TO ASK THE QUESTION
What about the death and resurrection of Jesus, what if that was untrue, what’s at stake? What’s the big deal if it is false?
IS IT A SMALL DEAL EQUALIVAINTE TO whether you have cheese on your burger or not? (you prefer cheese but it is not life altering if you don’t have cheese)
NO, it’s a huge deal, mega deal, life changing deal, as we will see
Look at what Paul says
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
Vain is untrue pertaining to being untrue in view of lacking truth—
Vain is useless pertaining to being totally without purpose—‘in vain, for no purpose.’
Your faith is useless, it has not punch to it, has not power to it, It is not useful for anything
How so? How does our faith have no use to us if the DEATH and RESURRECTION does not happen?
I am going to list 6 supremely negative things that happen if the DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS is not TRUE
That is very obvious, If their is no DEATH and RESURRECTION of the MESSIAH it makes the Bible unreliable, unauthoritative, not truthful
WHY? HOW COULD I SAY THAT?
The Bible over and over talks about DEATH and RESURRECTION, a MESSIAH that would suffer and die.
We see in Psalm 22, Isaiah 53, Isaiah 6, and all over the Gospels, the PROPHETS
It was a main of Jesus’ teaching and why He has come
On a human level we can maybe trust a book or someone if they lie about something small or something a couple of times
But the Bible talks over and over about the death and resurrection of a future.
If there is not DEATH and RESURRECTION of a MESSIAH than the place the Bible should be located in the FICTION or FANTASY section of the book story along side FANTASY stories of a MESSIANCE FIGURES like FROTO BAGGIES, SUPERMAN, BATMAN, nice story, movie story, but that all it is
Maybe at best it could be in the self help section of stories of how to live
2. If there is no DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS
Paul says this
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 65.37 μάταιος, α, ον; ματαιότης, ητος
μάταιος, α, ον; ματαιότης, ητος f: pertaining to being useless on the basis of being futile and lacking in content—‘useless, futile, empty, futility.’
FUTILE: useless
We are getting Paul’s point over and over in in 1 Cor 15:17 USELESS, POINTLESS, it is not worth much
then Paul says you are still in your sins if there is no DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS
SIN, WE DO NOT LIKE THAT WORD
WHY? We try to erase? Why?
To sin means we act contrary to the will and law of God....if we disobey or act contrary to the law of God that makes us SINNERS, which also means that we are GUILTY and CONDEMNED and we don’t like that (no one does)
Therefore we try to eliminate SIN, even “churches” try to eliminate sin or
OR we create OUR OWN LAW where we can do not wrong…sin does not exist in our law system and therefore we are good people.
We can say that until we are blue in the face, scream it at the top of our lungs, share it with others, but no matter what we do our law system is not true
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
WHICH MAKES US ALL GUILTY, CONDEMNED
IF THERE IS NO DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS WE ARE ALL GUILTY
NO ONLY ARE WE CONDEMNED, GUILTY IF THERE IS NO DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS
3. IF THERE IS NO DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS, BECAUSE SIN REMAINS SOMETHING ELSE STILL REIGNS, what is it that still reigns? DEATH STILL REIGNS
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s Word says if DEATH AND RESURRECTION of JESUS DOES NOT HAPPEN....SIN remains DEATH reigns
We die, there is not life after death, it is just death, and we will see later eternal torment in hell.
This was not God’s plan, God’s plan is that we would live forever...ADAM and EVE were not CREATED TO DIE
BUT IF THERE IS NO DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS, DEATH IS VICTORIOUS....we all die and stay dead
But not only do we stay dead it gets much worse
4. If there is no DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS, our destiny is ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, another word for this place is HELL.
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous
and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Our destination, where we are headed it HELL, eternal punishment, weeping and gnashing of teeth because our sin remians.
If death is not defeated, if SIN is not atoned for paid for our destination is HELL.
To put it another perspective. If there is not DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS EARTH is HEAVEN and DEATH is HELL.
5. If there is not DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS, sin remains and OUR SIN brings separation between us and God, our relationship with God has a separation, there is
but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Sin brings separation between us and God.
Some say, well I will just do good, there is no amount of goodness that you can do to cross and bridge the gap between you and God, it remains if there is no death and resurrection of Jesus
as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands; no one seeks for God.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
6. We are in bondage to sin
Not does SIN bring BRING CONDEMNATION, DEATH, HELL, SEPARATION, IT BRINGS BONDADGE
if there is no DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS we remain in bondage to sin, SIN IS OUR MASTER, there is no freedom from SIN but just entanglement.
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
We are in bondage to sin
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 37.3 δοῦλος, η, ον
δοῦλος, η, ον: pertaining to a state of being completely controlled by someone or something
Sin will always be your master, if there is no DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS
We can try and try and try, but if
Sin will always remain
THIS IS NOT JUST BAD NEWS THIS IS A NIGHTMARE!
BIBLE IS UNRELIABLE
WE ARE CONDEMNED
DEATH REIGNS
ETERNAL DESTINTY IS HELL
SEPARATED FROM GOD
WE REMAIN IN BONDAGE
BUT HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS
WHAT’S THE GOOD NEWS???
THE DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS happened
BECAUSE THE DEATH and RESURRECTION of Jesus happened all the nightmare things I said become, not only UNTRUE, because TURN to BLESSINGS, greatest than we have ever dreamed.
He is Risen!
How do you know this? You were not alive 2000 years ago, I can give the powerful testimony that is my life, you can as well for those who believe.
And I also point you to the historians of that day
Who state it is not debated, historians, Christians and non-believers confirmed that Jesus did in fact over and over
Josephus a Jewish not Christian historian said it happened
“About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.”
In fact the religious Jews response of those who did not believe in Jesus said in the Talmud, there own teachings that Jesus body was stolen, not risen from the dead
and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
THIS WAS A CREED OF THE EARLY CHURCH THAT THEY WOULD REPEAT OVER AND OVER
Paul says, Jesus did die and rise, He is the Messiah.
Paul say go ask Peter, go ask the 12, go ask the 500 most are still alive, they now
Go ask his brother James, who did not believe Jesus was the Messiah until after the resurrection.
For not even his brothers believed in him.
I say this because we have this verifiable proof that the death and resurrection of Jesus has happened.
Jesus defeated DEATH and MADE ATONEMENT FOR SIN
BECAUSE THE DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS happen we do no remain in SIN
This is AMAZING NEWS!
Sin loses it’s hold on us
Jesus is the atoning sacrifice
The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
BECAUSE OF JESUS SIN HAS BEEN ATONED FOR, PAID,
JESUS PAID IT ALL
THIS MEANS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THIS… I have great NEWS
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
We are no longer guilty, we are no longer condemned.
because of what Jesus has done we do not walk around GUILTY or CONDEMNED
that is not our name
No because of what we have done but because of what Jesus has done for us
He PAID IT ALL
It gets better, not only are we not only are we not CONDEMNED, we are not brought into the family....no longer separated from God.
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
We are not just not condemned we are SONS and DAUGHTERS of GOD
We are not separated, we are in family together
I am you ABBA and you are my child
Not only are you NOT CONDEMNED, YOU are ADOPTED,
You are God’s child
Here where sometimes some of us get lose the affect or don’t grasp the DEATH and RESURRECTION of JESUS....
Jesus doesn’t just FORGIVE you, make atonement for you SIN, that gets us to zero, He brings us into the family
Not only does the death and resurrection of Jesus ATONE FOR MY SINS, make payment, for my sins that I am no longer condemned, adopted, forgiven,
There is more
GUESS WHAT NO LONGER REIGNS?
DEATH is DEFEATED
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
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.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Death has no reign on your body, through Jesus death and resurrection
WE LONGER DIE FOREVER, OUR DEATH on this SIDE OF HEAVEN IS NOT finality of everything....There is live after death.
So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
BECAUSE DEATH HAS BEEN DEFEATED, WE LIVE and NOT ONLY DO WE LIVE, our eternity is HEAVEN
Our destiny is not HELL, our eternity is HEAVEN
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ETERNALLY WE WILL BE WITH JESUS, FULLY ALIVE
WHERE THRE WILL BE NO SIN or DEATH, NO PAIN
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
The death and resurrection of Jesus for those who believe receive
NO condemnation
Adopted into the family of God
Death is defeated, we are DEAD to SIN and ALIVE in Christ
We have a future hope
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,
to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
THIS IS AVAILABLE TO ALL WHO BELIEVE
DO YO BELIEVE?
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Not condemned
Accepted/adopted
Sin is atoned for
Freedom from sin
Death is defeated
Future hope
And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.