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Prayer
Two weeks ago: Death of Christ - all that it accomplished for us
At our Kid’s Easter Event last Friday, we had PIZZA for everyone that came...
And so when I got up to speak I asked the kids if they thought that PIZZA was GOOD!!
They all screamed “YES!!”
I said - Well what’s GOOD about it?
(pepperoni, cheese, etc)
And then I said - OK, does anyone know what NEXT FRIDAY is called?
(this past Friday)
they struggled with that one..
SO i said - It’s called GOOD FRIDAY!
WHO KNOWS why it’s called GOOD Friday?
And they yelled out - Because it’s PIZZA Day!!
And so I had to explain what GOOD Friday was about - And i said - Good Friday is the day that we CELEBRATE the death of Jesus Christ.
*Puzzled looks
And i said - Now why do you think we would CELEBRATE the death of someone?
Why would we call that day GOOD Friday??
What is GOOD about the death of Jesus?
And so we got into why the death of Jesus is GOOD!
And as I looked out at all the kids sitting there…and the parents behind them...
I thought...
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM - WILL have to deal with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Every Person that has ever lived, and will ever live - has dealt with or WILL deal with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Ignoring it - IS a way of dealing with it - and consequences will follow
What i want to do today is ask the question - Have You Dealt With the Resurrection?
ALL of US - whether we know so or not, have come to the SAME fork in the road...
SLIDE: Fork in the Road - Pic
And so what I’d like to do today - Is look at those in Scripture who went LEFT at the fork…and then look at those who went RIGHT...
And in DOING so, I’d like us to ask ourselves…which way have i headed?
If I was to look around me, would I be standing with THIS (left) crowd....or THIS (right) crowd?
Important questions to ask...
SLIDE: Did The Resurrection Happen?
Those Who Say No
Did The Resurrection Happen?
If you remember last week, we discussed the BURIAL of Christ...
And what we looked at was:
In Part - how the Burial of Christ was the priority of Rome
Remember what the chief priests discussed after the Crucifixion?
The chief priests and the pharisees, and Pilate and some soldiers...
put all their energy into PREVENTING the followers of Jesus from:
stealing the body of Jesus
faking His resurrection
They KNEW what was at stake!
They couldn’t AFFORD for the body of Christ to be stolen, and a resurrection story to begin to spread!
And so from the ROMAN perspective…the Burial of Jesus Christ was - PRIORITY!
GET THIS RIGHT - Pilate would have been thinking!
GET THIS RIGHT - the chief priests and pharisees would have been thinking!
Did they GUARD the tomb?
Did they GET IT RIGHT? - Listen - they DID what THEY COULD!
Did it matter?
He ROSE from the dead!
They could have placed His body in the back of a Brinks Truck, buried it 10,000 feet below the ground....would it have mattered?
NO
But what I want to do FIRST is look at how the Guards responded to the Resurrection!
THIS is following the resurrection...
Couple of things:
The World Suppresses the Truth of the Resurrection in Unrighteousness
Let me explain...
You remember how this has played out the last 2 weeks?
What was the Chief Priests, and Rome’s priority following the crucifixion?
What was their priority regarding the BURIAL?
All their ENERGY was focused on NOT LETTING - the Body of Christ to be STOLEN!
PRIORITY 1 - Don’t let His followers STEAL THE BODY!
WHY? - Because they will spread A LIE...
What was the LIE? - that Jesus Rose from the dead!
In the Roman/Chief Priest’s world view....
SLIDE: Reality vs. Lie (1)
So we look at this and we see that ACCORDING to the chief priests and Rome...
REALITY was...
they were going to steal Christ’s body in order to SPREAD a LIE...
THIS was reality for them!
BUT THEN...
SLIDE: Reality vs. Lie (2)
…the resurrection HAPPENS…and the guards KNEW it!
They were there!
They realized that what they THOUGHT would be the LIE - was actually TRUE!
HOW DID THEY RESPOND TO THAT TRUTH?
SLIDE: Reality vs. Lie (3)
Do you see what happened?
What they thought would be the lie BECAME reality....
and what they had embraced as reality - became their LIE!
The very lie that the GUARD was meant to prevent…became the LIE they used against the RESURRECTION!
Do you see how they SUPPRESSED the truth of the resurrection…?
THEY WERE THERE!
Those guards KNEW what had happened!
And their WORLD - literally got flipped upside DOWN....
and yet it didn’t matter - they EMBRACED the LIE!
What about you?
See, to the guards that day - the resurrection WASN’T good news!
Is the Gospel GOOD NEWS to you?
If not, then you’re in the NO crowd.
The Death, burial and resurrection of Christ is a physical representation of what we need - Spiritually!
And so if you don’t believe that Christ was REALLY DEAD…!
Then you DON’T believe that apart from Christ, you’re REALLY dead in your sin!
And if you don’t believe that Christ was REALLY raised to NEW LIFE…!
Then you don’t believe that you’ve been Spiritually REBORN!
If you LOOK at the Sacrifice of Christ - and you find it INSUFFICIENT - then in the end, you will be Spiritually Insufficient before God...
If you look at the Sacrifice of Christ - His Death, Burial, and Resurrection, and you find it LACKING in ANY AREA...
If you DON’T believe that Jesus Christ was REALLY dead...
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