Resurrection Sunday 2017

Resurrection Sunday 2017

Resurrection Sunday 2017

Shawn Bumpers / General; Kids

Specials / Resurrection of Jesus Christ; Easter / 1 Corinthians 15:3–8; John 20; Mark 16; Luke 24:1–12; Matthew 28:1–8

Resurrection Sunday Service for 2017

Ephesians 2:17–18 NKJV

And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Contradiction has been a key feature in the lives of all people.

Contradiction is not limited to those who claim no knowledge of God.

Dependence on works for salvation reveals another contradiction in the hearts of many people.

To clothes ourselves in our own works to go before the Father is like saying, “Lord, see how clean my works have made me?”

Contradiction is found in people, including atheists and Christians.

On a larger scale, contradiction is found in nations.

Psalm 2:1–3 ESV

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”

Contradiction is an abundant quality of mankind.

Contradiction is NOT OF SCRIPTURE, … it is not in God, … it is not in Jesus … and it is not in the plan of God. 

If the gospel story ended there … it would not be good news … Jesus would not have been the Messiah.

My best for you is yet to come.

Romans 8:28 NKJV

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:35–39 ESV

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

V1

It is important that we remember that the gospel message does not end with the death of Jesus.

The gospel depends on the Father’s acceptance of Jesus’ sacrifice.

We know His sacrifice was accepted because He rose again.

John 1:29 NKJV

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

The imagery takes us back to the Passover Lamb and the whole sacrificial system

1 Peter 1:18–21 NKJV

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Jesus’ death on the cross:

• Established a new covenant:

• Was a victory: 

• Brought redemption: 

• Brought forgiveness and cleansing: 

• Brought sanctification:

God’s perfect Son fulfilled God’s perfect requirement of God’s perfect law.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Jesus’ resurrection:

• Proved He’s the Messiah: 

• Confirmed God’s acceptance of His sacrifice:

• Empowers us to live for God:

2 Corinthians 3:5 NKJV

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

Romans 6:4 NKJV

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

• Means He is interceding on our behalf:

• Assures our own resurrection to eternal life:

1 Corinthians 15:20 NKJV

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

• It testifies to the truth of scripture. 

• Is proof of future judgement:

The resurrection of Jesus is CENTRAL to the gospel message.

John 11:25 NKJV

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

God reconciled sinful man to Himself.

He did this by placing our sins upon His sinless Son, Jesus … who died in the our place. 

In verse 1 of John 20, Jesus is in the tomb … at least in the minds of the disciples.

You know, some Christians act like Jesus is still in the tomb.

In chapters 18 and 19 of John, Jesus was:

The veil

Joseph of Arimathea went to Pilate and received permission to remove the body of Jesus.

He placed Him in his own family tomb, which had never been used and was but a little distance from Calvary.

Hebrew word, “Selah.”

סֶ֫לָה

We find this word in the Psalms, where saying “consider” after a refrain makes sense …

Habakkuk 3:13 NKJV

You went forth for the salvation of Your people, For salvation with Your Anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked, By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah

Genesis 3:15 NKJV

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

But we should not only stop and consider the death and resurrection of Christ.

The knowledge of something so remarkable means we have to do something with it … make a choice, take an action.

The resurrection of Jesus is a dividing point … A place where the line cannot be straddled.

A full 3 days and 3 nights had passed … the sign of Jonah.

Matthew 12:40 NKJV

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

V2-10

Mary ran to get Peter and John

John leaned in to look

The Shroud of Turin

Matthew 12:39 NKJV

But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Hebrews 11:1 NKJV

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

John 20:29 NKJV

Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

If we are walking by faith, then nothing changes … if we are walking by sight, then we stumble.

2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

John 14:1–4 NKJV

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

The gospel of Matthew informs us that there was a guard set around the tomb

V11-12

Mary remained behind.

She saw 2 angels in white, sitting where Jesus had lain … One at the head and one at the foot.

The “mercy seat” of the Ark of the Testimony or Covenant was a kofar.

Likewise, the blood sacrifices prescribed by God in the OT, provided a cover.

John 19:30 NKJV

So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

V13-16

You can imagine Mary, choking out the words through her sobs:

He called Mary by name, “Miriam!” but she called Him Rabboni, which means “Great Teacher.”

v17

Jesus tells Mary there is a new relationship established.

John 1:12 NKJV

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

v18-23

So, Mary went to tell the disciples she had seen who?

THE LORD, and in doing so, she became the first person to declare the resurrection of the LORD Jesus.

Romans 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.