Defining Moments

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Defining Moments
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The Resurrection.

• Determines your view of Jesus.
• What you believe about Jesus is largely
  determined by what you believe about the
  Resurrection.

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Acts 229-41

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The Resurrection

• Determines your view of Jesus.
• Changes your view of the world.

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1 Peter 13-9

• 3Praise 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, 4and
  into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
  or fadekept in heaven for you, 5who through
  faith are shielded by God's power until the
  coming of the salvation that is ready to be

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1 Peter 13-9

• revealed in the last time. 6In this you greatly
  rejoice, though now for a little while you may
  have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
  7These have come so that your faithof greater
  worth than gold, which perishes even though
  refined by firemay be proved genuine and may
  result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus
  Christ is revealed.

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1 Peter 13-9

• 8Though you have not seen him, you love him and
  even though you do not see him now, you believe
  in him and are filled with an inexpressible and
  glorious joy, 9for you are receiving the goal of
  your faith, the salvation of your souls.

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The Resurrection

• Determines your view of Jesus.
• Changes your view of the world.
• Shapes your view of yourself.

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John 2019-23

• 19On the evening of that first day of the week,
  when the disciples were together, with the doors
  locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood
  among them and said, Peace be with you! 20After
  he said this, he showed them his hands and side.
  The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the
  Lord.

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John 2019-23

• 21Again Jesus said, Peace be with you! As the
  Father has sent me, I am sending you. 22And with
  that he breathed on them and said, Receive the
  Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins,
  they are forgiven if you do not forgive them,
  they are not forgiven.

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Romans 61-14

• 1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning
  so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died
  to sin how can we live in it any longer? 3Or
  don't you know that all of us who were baptized
  into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
  4We were therefore buried with him through
  baptism into death in order that,

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Romans 61-14

• just as Christ was raised from the dead through
  the glory of the Father, we too may live a new
  life. 5If we have been united with him like this
  in his death, we will certainly also be united
  with him in his resurrection. 6For we know that
  our old self was crucified with him so that the
  body of sin might be done away with, that

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Romans 61-14

• we should no longer be slaves to sin
• 7because anyone who has died has been freed
  from sin.
• 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
  will also live with him. 9For we know that since
  Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die
  again death no longer has mastery over him.

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Romans 61-14

• 10The death he died, he died to sin once for
  all but the life he lives, he lives to God.
• 11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin
  but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
• 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your
  mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.

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Romans 61-14

• 13Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as
  instruments of wickedness, but rather offer
  yourselves to God, as those who have been brought
  from death to life and offer the parts of your
  body to him as instruments of righteousness.
  14For sin shall not be your master, because you
  are not under law, but under grace.