Jesus is Alive

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Jesus is Alive!

• The Resurrection Part 15
• Discovering Jesus series
• Mt 281-10 and Selected

Pastor Dave Martin Cross Creek Community Church
Aug 29, 2004
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Review...

• Jesus is betrayed, arrested and found guilty of
  blasphemy Claimed to be the Son of God!
• The very Lamb of God is crucified for the sins of
  mankind!

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The Resurrection of Jesus...

• 1. The Resurrection was in fulfillment of Bible
  Prophecy!
• Predicted in the Old Testament
• Psalm 1610 because you will not abandon me to
  the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see
  decay.

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Resurrections in Scripture...

• Christ, the firstfruits
• Church-age saints at the Rapture
• Tribulation O.T. saints at 2nd coming
• Final Resurrection of the unsaved dead at the end
  of the Millennium

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The Resurrection of Jesus...

• Predicted in the Old Testament
• Predicted by Jesus in the Gospels
• Matthew 1621 From that time on Jesus began to
  explain to his disciples that he must go to
  Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of
  the elders, chief priests and teachers of the
  law, and that he must be killed and on the third
  day be raised to life.

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The Resurrection of Jesus...

• 2. Jesus PROCLAIMED His Triumph!
• To the spirits in prison
• 1 Peter 318-20a For Christ died for sins once
  for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to
  bring you to God. He was put to death in the body
  but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also
  he went and preached to the spirits in prison who
  disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in
  the days of Noah while the ark was being built...

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The Resurrection of Jesus...

• 3. Death, Hell and the Grave could not hold the
  King!
• The Power of the Trinity raise Jesus to life
  Acts 315 Jn 1018 1Pet 318
• Luke 245b-6a Why do you look for the living
  among the dead? He is not here he has risen!

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The Resurrection of Jesus...

• 4. Overwhelming Evidence Proves Jesus is Alive
• Acts 13 After his suffering, he showed himself
  to these men and gave many convincing proofs that
  he was alive. He appeared to them over a period
  of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

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Overwhelming Evidence

• Events surrounding the empty tomb
• Hundreds of eyewitnesses over 40 days
• Evidenced by changed lives
• 1 Cor. 153-8 For what I received I passed on to
  you as of first importance that Christ died for
  our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was
  buried, that he was raised on the third day
  according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared
  to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he
  appeared to more than five hundred of the
  brothers at the same time, most of whom are still
  living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he
  appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and
  last of all he appeared to me also, as to one
  abnormally born.

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Christs Resurrection Guarantees Our...

• Glorious Salvation from Sin!
• Romans 425 He was delivered over to death for
  our sins and was raised to life for our
  justification.

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Christs Resurrection Guarantees Our...

• Glorious Salvation from Sin!
• Victorious Power for Living!
• Philip. 310-11 I want to know Christ and the
  power of his resurrection and the fellowship of
  sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in
  his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the
  resurrection from the dead.

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Christs Resurrection Guarantees Our...

• Glorious Salvation from Sin!
• Victorious Power for Living!
• Expectant Hope for the Future!
• 1 Peter 13-5 Praise be to the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has
  given us new birth into a living hope through the
  resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and
  into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
  or fade--kept in heaven for you, who through
  faith are shielded by God's power until the
  coming of the salvation that is ready to be
  revealed in the last time.

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• 1 Cor. 1551-52 Listen, I tell you a mystery We
  will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--
  in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
  last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the
  dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be
  changed.
• 1 Thes. 416-17 For the Lord himself will come
  down from heaven, with a loud command, with the
  voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call
  of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
  After that, we who are still alive and are left
  will be caught up together with them in the
  clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we
  will be with the Lord forever.

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