Three Easter B. Q.

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• Three EasterB. Q.s
• Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
• Whats at stake?
• What real difference does it make?

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Easter B. Q. 1 Did Jesus REALLY rise from the
dead?
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Five Options
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Five Options Jesus Died
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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus Rose ---
• (1) Biblical Christianity!

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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus didnt rise

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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus didnt rise
• (2) the apostles were deceived

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Theory 1 The Disciples went to the wrong tomb
(Oops Theory)
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Theory 2 The Hallucination Theory
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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus didnt rise
• (3) the apostles were myth makers

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Theory 3 The Disciples were really good
myth-makers.
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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus didnt rise

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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus didnt rise
• (4) the apostles were deceivers

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Theory 4 The Disciples stole the Body (the big
conspiracy theory!)
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Matthew 2811-15 11While the women were on their
way, some of the guards went into the city and
reported to the chief priests everything that had
happened. 12When the chief priests had met with
the elders and devised a plan, they gave the
soldiers a large sum of money, 13telling them,
You are to say, His disciples came during the
night and stole him away while we were asleep.
14If this report gets to the governor, we will
satisfy him and keep you out of trouble. 15So
the soldiers took the money and did as they were
instructed. And this story has been widely
circulated among the Jews to this very day.
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• Five Options
• Jesus Died
• Jesus didnt rise

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• Five Options
• Jesus didnt Die
• (5) He was resescitated by the cool of the tomb

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Theory 5 The Swoon Theory
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The best possible Theory Jesus actually rose
from the dead!
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Easter B. Q. 2 Whats at stake if Jesus didnt
rise from the dead?
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1 Corinthians 151-22 1Now, brothers, I want to
remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which
you received and on which you have taken your
stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you
hold firmly to the word I preached to you.
Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3For what
I received I passed on to you as of first
importance that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried,
that he was raised on the third day according to
the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Peter,
and then to the Twelve. 6After 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. 7Then he appeared to
James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all
he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally
born. 9For I am the least of the apostles and do
not even deserve to be called an apostle, because
I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the
grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me
was not without effect. No, I worked harder than
all of them yet not I, but the grace of God that
was with me. 11Whether, then, it was I or they,
this is what we preach, and this is what you
believed.
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1 Corinthians 151-22 (contd) 12But if it is
preached that Christ has been raised from the
dead, how can some of you say that there is no
resurrection of the dead? 13If there is no
resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ
has been raised. 14And if Christ has not been
raised, our preaching is useless and so is your
faith. 15More than that, we are then found to be
false witnesses about God, for we have testified
about God that he raised Christ from the dead.
But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are
not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised,
then Christ has not been raised either. 17And if
Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile
you are still in your sins. 18Then those also
who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19If
only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are
to be pitied more than all men.
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1 Corinthians 151-22 (contd) 20But Christ has
indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits
of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since
death came through a man, the resurrection of the
dead comes also through a man. 22For as in Adam
all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
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Easter B. Q. 3 What difference does it make if
Jesus really rose from the dead?
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1. The resurrection of Jesus proves the ultimate
truth that Christianity is true!
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2. The resurrection of Jesus proves Good Friday
worked!
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3. The resurrection of Jesus proclaims Christ is
Victor over Death
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4. The resurrection of Jesus is a Guarantee of
our life to come
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5. The resurrection of Jesus proves that your
sins are forgiven if you trust Him!
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6. The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
you have for your life now in Jesus
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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Romans 61-23
• 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 dont 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,
  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.

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Implications from this passage

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Implications from this passage
• a. We were united with Jesus in his Death

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Implications from this passage
• a. We were united with Jesus in his Death
• b. As a result, sin has been completely atoned
  for in the wrath of God being poured upon Jesus.

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Implications from this passage
• a. We were united with Jesus in his Death
• b. As a result, sin has been completely atoned
  for in the wrath of God being poured upon Jesus.
• c. We were united with Jesus in his Resurrection

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Implications from this passage
• a. We were united with Jesus in his Death
• b. As a result, sin has been completely atoned
  for in the wrath of God being poured upon Jesus.
• c. We were united with Jesus in his Resurrection
• d. As a result, we are given new life in Jesus
  Christ

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Acts 518-20
• 18They arrested the apostles and put them in the
  public jail. 19But during the night an angel of
  the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought
  them out. 20Go, stand in the temple courts, he
  said, and tell the people the full message of
  this new life.

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• 2 Corinthians 516, 17
• 16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly
  point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in
  this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if
  anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation the
  old has gone, the new has come!

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• 1 John 511-13
• 11And this is the testimony God has given us
  eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He
  who has the Son has life he who does not have
  the Son of God does not have life. 13I write
  these things to you who believe in the name of
  the Son of God so that you may know that you have
  eternal life.

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• Galatians 220
• 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no
  longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I
  live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of
  God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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• The resurrection of Jesus is the very source
  you have for your life now in Jesus
• John 336
• 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life,
  but whoever rejects the Son will not see life,
  for Gods wrath remains on him.

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The Lord is Risen! I am Risen Indeed!
BELLINI, Giovanni Resurrection of Christ
1475-79 Oil on panel, Staatliche Museen, Berlin