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Today we are celebrating our risen savior, Jesus!
Risen from the dead!
That is what makes the difference, isn’t it?
The world is full of different religions, all of which have rules for what is good living, and the hope of a better future if you perform well enough in this life.
However, none of the men who started those religions are alive today.
They all passed away.
Their graves can be found.
They were powerless to save their own lives.
Where is the evidence that what they said was true?
However, Christianity is completely different!
Jesus not only talked about God’s righteous standards, He lived them.
Then, when evil men put Him to death, He rose again from the grave!
Just like He said He would!
What He said was true!
He proved it by rising from the dead!
The Resurrection is key to our faith.
The resurrection is the essential element of the good news of Jesus!
Paul writes it this way.
Witness, after witness, after witness.
When the New Testament was written, these witnesses were alive.
Had there not been witnesses, Christianity would not have lasted.
People would have found out if it was not true.
That sets Christianity apart!
Jesus rose again!
Jesus told the truth and proved it!
Jesus was victorious over death!
this is something that no one has ever done before, nor since!
That is why the Apostle Paul wrote about the importance of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15.
Our key verses for today are from that chapter.
Look with me at 1 Corinthians 15:55-57.
Victory!
That is what we are talking about this morning.
Let’s pray and ask God to remind us of the great victory that Jesus won for us.
Victory!
As I was thinking and praying about the message this morning, I found an article about Waterloo.
Does anyone remember Waterloo?
It was June of 1815.
Napolean had returned to power in France and was on the move against the Prussians and English.
He defeated the Prussians the first day, and forced the British to withdraw.
Then on the third day of fighting… The British were victorious with the aid of the Prussians.
From an old clipping, here is the way the news of the victory at Waterloo arrived in England.
There were no telegrams or telephones in those days, of course, but everyone knew that Wellington was facing Napoleon in a great battle, and that the future of England was in great uncertainty.
A sailing ship semaphored (signaled with coded flags) the news to the signalman on top of Winchester Cathedral.
He signaled to another man on a hill, and thus news of the battle was relayed by semaphore from station to station to London and all across the land.
When the ship came in, the signalman on board semaphored the first word: Wellington.
The next word was defeated, and then the fog came down and the ship could not be seen.
“Wellington Defeated” went across England, and there was great gloom all over the countryside.
After two or three hours, the fog lifted, and the signal came again: Wellington Defeated the Enemy.
Then all England rejoiced.
Can you imagine what those two to three hours were like?
Britain thought they were defeated.
They wondered what would happen now that Napolean had returned, and was victorious.
But then came the news of victory!
Can you imagine what those hours were like when the British thought they were defeated?
I imagine that is the way it was for the disciples.
Jesus had been arrested.
Up to that point, though the priests wanted Jesus dead, they couldn’t do anything because the people loved Him.
And His disciples claimed they would be loyal and fight for Him.
However, that night Jesus was arrested, the disciples fled.
They abandoned Jesus.
Then Jesus was crucified, died and was buried.
They mourned.
That thought it was the end.
Jesus, their master had been defeated.
There was no hope.
Or, so they thought.
Then came that glorious morning.
They women went to the tomb with spices, and came back excitedly proclaiming that Jesus was alive!
He rose from the dead!
Peter and John ran to the tomb.
It was open.
The stone was rolled away.
The body was gone!
But, rose from the dead?
John believed.
But Peter couldn’t believe it.
Later, still living in fear, the disciples were in a locked room when Jesus appeared to them.
John records it this way.
Victory!
Jesus rose from the dead!
His resurrection made all the difference in the world!
Now, these men who were living in fear, became bold.
They became the witnesses who travelled throughout the world spreading the good news of the death, burial AND resurrection of Jesus!
The resurrection really is key.
The resurrection brought the victory that changed these men into the bold apostles that turned the world upside down!
When the resurrected Jesus appeared to Paul, it radically changed His life.
Paul lived in a rigid system of works.
If you perfectly kept the law, you would be righteous.
And in his fervor to keep the law, he went so far as to kill Christians.
Paul would have been in Jerusalem when Jesus was there.
He would have been with the Pharisees, the group that Jesus kept having run-ins with because He would heal people on the Sabbath, breaking their traditions.
You see, they came up with a lot of traditions to keep from breaking the law of not ‘working’ on the Sabbath.
Jesus broke their traditions, so they were against Him.
Later, they were against those who preached about Jesus.
Thus, Paul began killing Christians.
While He was traveling to Damascus to get Christians there, the resurrected Jesus appeared to Him.
Paul had not repented nor believed upon hearing the gospel from the apostles, nor from other believers like Stephen.
however, when the resurrected Jesus appeared to him, he was a changed man.
From that point in his life, he was no longer on mission to take lives.
He was on mission to save lives by sharing the hope of Jesus!
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