Coming Alive

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Coming Alive!

• Text Mt. 281-8 Selected
• Resurrection Sunday
• Cross Creek Community Church
• Pastor Dave Martin April 20, 2003
• Gods Word is Powerful, Relevant, and Life
  Changing!

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John 1419 Before long, the world will not see
me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live,
you also will live.

• Easter is all about change, Its all about

COMING ALIVE!
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• Matthew 281-8 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the
  first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the
  other Mary went to look at the tomb.
• 2There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of
  the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the
  tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His
  appearance was like lightning, and his clothes
  were white as snow. 4The guards were so afraid of
  him that they shook and became like dead men.
• 5The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid,
  for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who
  was crucified. 6He is not here he has risen,
  just as he said. Come and see the place where he
  lay. 7Then go quickly and tell his disciples 'He
  has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you
  into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have
  told you." 8So the women hurried away from the
  tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell
  his disciples.

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Coming Alive

• 1. Live a life filled with MEANING!
• 1 Peter 13-4 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, 4and
  into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil
  or fade--kept in heaven for you,

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We attempt to find fulfillment in our
possessions, vices, busyness, activities, or
religious experiences. Feelings of

• Exhaustion Tired, worn out, overloaded
• Emptiness Stretched, busy yet unfulfilled
• Enslavement Trapped, guilt, regret, schedules
• Come Alive this Easter!

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Coming Alive

• 2. Live a Life filled with CHRIST!
• Ephes. 316-19 I pray that out of his glorious
  riches he may strengthen you with power through
  his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ
  may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I
  pray that you, being rooted and established in
  love, 18may have power, together with all the
  saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and
  deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this
  love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be
  filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
  
• Know Love Faith - Filled

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Three people who Came Alive in Christ
(All seen at the tomb of Jesus in John 1938-208)

• Nicodemus the Moral Religionist (John 31-21)
• Mary Magdalene the Immoral Possessed (Luke 82)
• Simon Peter the Average Person (Mt 418)
• Everyone needs Christ!

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Coming Alive

• 3. Live a Life filled with Resurrection POWER!
• 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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Come Alive In Christ this Easter!

• Discovering
• Forgiveness and Peace!
• Purpose for Living!
• Hope for the Future!
• John 1419 Before long, the world will not see
  me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live,
  you also will live.

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