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Welcome
What a great day to be here with you today!
This is the day we celebrate the day Jesus made all things new.
Today we celebrate not a dead Savior, but a Risen, Reigning, King who has given us life.
We celebrate His victory over death and because of that, our victory too.
I want to begin by reading a little Scripture
Jesus made many claims during his time on earth.
His claims were significant and those that only God himself could make.
I want to read one of those claims from the Gospel of John:
John 11:25–26 (NASB95)
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.
Do you believe this?”
The same question that Jesus asked Martha that day is the same question that Jesus is asking each one of us today: Do you believe this?
Do you truly believe Jesus is the resurrection and the life?
Do you believe that by placing your faith in Jesus Christ, you can have eternal life.
Do you believe that Jesus those who believe in Jesus as the Christ will never die?
Prayer
Worship that is pleasing
For people to believe in You today
INTRODUCTION
What I want us to think about today are the undeniable facts of the resurrection.
And that if this resurrection is true, then what does that means for us?
And how can the resurrection change our lives?
It seems to me today that people will believe just about anything without any basis of facts.
People believe that the world somehow created itself out of nothing which is impossible according to the First Law of Thermodynamics.
Some people believe in reincarnation which is simply a suggestion and has no basis of fact.
People even believe today that they have somehow been transformed into an animal.
This belief is so prominent they even have a name for it called Lycanthropy (li-can-thropy).
What I want to show you today why the resurrection is more than a myth, it is a fact.
And it has a foundation of proof that should convince even the biggest skeptic.
Turn with me to John 20:1-2 “Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.
So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
The Christian church stands as a testimony that the resurrection is true
Explanation
Jesus has just been crucified.
He was betrayed in the garden by Judas.
He was placed on trial by the Jewish leaders and they handed Him over to the governor Pilate.
Pilate had Jesus beaten severely, and stood Him before His own people who demanded that He be crucified.
The Scripture says Jesus carried His own cross to a place called Golgatha which means the place of the skull.
And there they raised Him up on that cross until He died.
The next day was the Sabbath, and according to Jewish law the body had to be taken down off the cross.
So He was taken down, wrapped in grave cloths, anointed with spices, and laid Him in a tomb.
This happened on a Friday.
The Sabbath was Saturday.
And the Scripture jumps immediately to the first day of the week.
Creation
God created the earth in 6 days Gen 1-2.
God brought the earth into existence, the animals, and then on the sixth day He created us in His image.
On the seventh day, when God finished His work of creating what did He do?
He rested!
And he blessed that day and called it holy and told Israel that they must rest on the seventh day as well.
And named called that day the Sabbath.
When Jesus hung on cross do you remember what He said before He died?
He said, “It is finished”.
The work that the Father had given Jesus to do on earth, the mission that God had called Him to was complete.
Then came the Sabbath and Jesus rested in the tomb just as God had rested when He finished His work.
Our verses says: “on the first day of the week”
This is not the 7th day but the 8th day.
Boys were circumcised on the 8th day.
Pentecost happened on day 8 of the seventh week.
The feast of tabernacles was 8 days long.
The point is to say this day was a new beginning of creation!
This is the day that a new created order began.
It is a day when the Lord Jesus Christ stepped out of the grave and brought A new kind of life!
This is the day when the Creator went back into the garden that Adam failed in to conquer death and sin once and for all and walked out the grave victorious!
And everyone who believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life!
Application
This is why the church gathers on Sunday!
This is the day after the Sabbath, the 8th day.
You can look out into the world today and see here that had never been here before the resurrection of Jesus Christ: THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH!
It is estimated that there are over 37 million Christian churches across the globe!
There are over 380,000 in America alone!
Are so many people believing a lie or is the church something that came as a result of the resurrection?
Why do people come together as a church?
It is because the people of God who have received the grace of God that gave them a new life.
People cannot create a church.
(Not a true church).
A true church is born by people being born again into the Kingdom of God!
Christianity is not about something that we do, it is something that we have become.
Each one of us in Christ, has become a new creation, a new person, a free person with a future promise of permanent redemption.
And now every single Sunday is set aside to worship this Risen King who has called us out of the grave!
Jesus’ resurrection is the first fruit for everyone who will ever believe in Him.
What are first fruits?
When you plant a garden or a crop you’ll have some plants come up before anything else.
Every time I plant corn there will alway be a few who come up before the entire crop.
And what this tells me is those few plants guarantee that the rest are going to come.
That means that I didn’t plant the corn in cold ground, or too wet ground.
It is a good crop.
Jesus is our first fruit.
He was the first to rise from the dead that is why Paul says he is the “firstborn” of all creation.
This does not mean Christ is born, but that He is the first to rise from the dead.
And what this means for us is that since He arose, we will be resurrected too.
Since Jesus walked out of the grave, we will walk out of the grave too!
There is life after death and on this glorious day 2000 years later we must fall down and worship the one who can give life to our souls!
“For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive” (1 Cor 15:22).
It is because “he is risen!” that death itself has been defeated.
This is more than just a fact of this life, for it is also what gives this life its meaning and purpose.
He is risen indeed!
The eye witness accounts unmistakably testify that the resurrection happened
John 20:4–8 (NASB95)
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