Introduction:
Daniel 12:2 - And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 5:29 - ...those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Witnesses to the Resurrection (1 Cor 15:1-11):
- The Church . (1 Cor 15:1-2)
Romans 10:9 - because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- Scripture . (1 Cor 15:3-4)
Isaiah 53:10 - Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Psalm 16:10 (Acts 2) - For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
- Eyewitnesses (1 Cor 15:5-8)
- Global Impact . (1 Cor 15:11)
Three Realizations of Those Who Live in His Grace:
- I am Unworthy . (1 Cor 15:9)
- I am Defined by grace. (1 Cor 15:10a)
- I am Powered by grace. (1 Cor 15:10b)
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Open your Bibles with me please to 1 Corinthians 15.
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While you're turning there, we're going to pray.
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Our Father in heaven, we bow ourselves before you.
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And Father, you know usually when we come together there's this, I guess sort of spirit of celebration, but it's something about this night every year.
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There's just a heaviness over all of us.
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And maybe it's just as fallen people, but redeemed people, maybe it's just this thought that the God of the universe came here and we mocked Him.
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We mocked you.
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That you came here as a man and we violently beat you and publicly executed you and blasphemed your name.
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There's a heaviness with that.
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And there's a heaviness that comes with the truth that you knew that was going to happen and you went through with it, because you knew that would be the means by which we would be saved from our own sin.
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So yes, Father, tonight, this is a heavy night for us.
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And we do come in here with the sense of, "He came to his own, and his own did not receive him." God. Father, we come in here with this real sense of this is what you did because you love us. So I pray, Father, as we turn to your Word, that you would eliminate distractions, but let our Word, let your Word, Father, bring us to your presence, Father. We praise you in Jesus' name. Amen.
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1 Corinthians chapter 15, for the next four messages, we're going to be in this chapter.
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And we're going to be talking about one thing for these four messages, and that one thing is resurrection. But you know, if we're going to talk about resurrection, tonight we have to talk about death. In fact, people have been talking about death a lot lately, haven't they? Oh, the last 13 months or so? That seems that anybody, that's all anybody wants to talk about. It's always in our faces. But you know, death is nothing new. It's still one per person. And the thing that strikes me, especially over these last 13 months and this obsession with the numbers of deaths.
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The thing that astonishes me is so many people seem consumed by this idea of death, but we're not consumed with the question of what happens to me when I die.
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I guess we don't really turn to the doctors for that portion, do we?
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We turn to religion.
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And depending on what religion you turn to, you're going to get all kinds of answers.
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What happens when I die?
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Some religions teach soul sleep.
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You just kind of go to sleep forever, or maybe not forever, who knows.
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And some religions teach annihilation.
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When you're dead, it's over.
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There is no conscious existence, excuse me, you're just, you're done.
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And you just completely cease to exist entirely.
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And some religions teach reincarnation, that you'll come back as something or someone else down the road and you just keep getting cycled through.
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And some religions teach that when you die, your essence gets absorbed back into the oneness of the universe cosmos or some hippie stuff, I don't know.
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But the Bible, God's Word, teaches something exclusively.
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And that is the concept of resurrection.
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Here's the reality.
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According to God's Word, every single person in this room or watching this stream, every single person that has ever lived or will ever live, every single person, someday is going to resurrect from the dead.
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Believers are going to get an eternal body that's going to suffer eternally apart from the presence of God.
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And believers are going to get an eternal body that is going to enjoy the presence of God in glory forever.
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It's in the Old Testament, right?
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Daniel 12.2 says, "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Jesus said the same thing in the New Testament.
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We talked about it somewhat recently, John chapter five.
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Jesus said, "Those who have done good "to the resurrection of life, "and those who have done evil "to the resurrection of judgment." It's a big deal.
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So we're going to get laser focused on this subject.
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Resurrection.
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It's not just a doctrine on a page.
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The one that we believe in, the one on whom this church is founded, Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead and he promised us that we would have our own resurrection.
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But you know, we're a lot like the Corinthian church.
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There is so much confusion, you know, about resurrection.
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Does it happen?
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I don't think it does happen.
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How does it happen?
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There is all this confusion and all these questions, and that's why we have 1 Corinthians 15, the resurrection chapter.
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It's going to clear it up.
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So we're going to take a hard look in a series called "Because Jesus Was Raised." And you're like, "Hang on.
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Already with your title, your message, you're getting a little presumptuous because you're assuming that I believe in the resurrection.
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What kind of evidence do you have for that?" And I would say, "Fact check this.
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First Corinthians 15, if you're taking notes, these are the witnesses to the resurrection.
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Number one, the church is the witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Look at the first couple of verses.
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It says, "Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and which you stand, and by which you are being saved.
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If you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain." Stop there.
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Paul is writing this to believers.
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obviously some very confused believers because of some outside influence we're gonna talk about that down the road but he was reminding these believers hey hey you built your life on this belief in Jesus Christ resurrecting from the dead and you're saved through that belief and when we talk about resurrection Church you have to understand that believing Jesus literally rose from the dead is not a part of what we believe. It is the very heart of what we believe.
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Do you understand? It's not a fringe issue. It is the absolute, non-negotiable, essential issue of the gospel. That Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead. Romans 10.9 says, Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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Do you notice the condition on being saved there?
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Believing that he was raised from the dead.
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Like, well, why do I have to believe that?
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Can't I just believe like some of the other stuff?
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Why do I have to believe that?
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Because it's believing Jesus is who he said he is.
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That's why.
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It's trusting his word.
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And if you can't believe this truth about Jesus, then nothing else Jesus said should matter to you.
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Because he promised this, and his resurrection guarantees our own resurrection.
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And the first proof that Paul gives here of the resurrection is that Jesus Christ is alive and transforming people in the church.
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That's the first witness.
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that the church, hear me, the church is full of people who claim to have been transformed by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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You don't believe me?
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I'm going to ask you right now, if you would claim that Jesus Christ has transformed you upon your belief in his resurrection, I want you to stand up.
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If you believe that, I want you to stand up.
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All right, there you go.
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There's your witnesses.
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There are your witnesses.
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Thank you very much.
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You may be seated.
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That's Paul's point here.
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What are we gonna do with all these people like yourselves that are testifying?
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I believe that and he changed me.
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There's your first witness.
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The second witness is scripture.
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Look at verses three and four.
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Paul says, "For I delivered to you as of first importance "what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures.
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That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
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Notice that phrase that got repeated.
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Paul says that Jesus' death and His resurrection is according to the Scriptures.
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And you're like, "Well, what Scriptures are those?" We would be here until Christmas if I was going to go through the Old Testament.
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I'm just going to give you a couple of examples.
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It's from Isaiah 53.10.
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In this one verse you see the prophecy of his death and his resurrection.
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"Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him.
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He has put him to grief.
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When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring.
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He shall prolong his days.
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The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." Another key scripture talking about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Very important is Psalm 16.10.
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This is really important because when Peter preached to Pentecost, this was the scripture that he used to prove that the Christ had to rise from the dead.
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He says, "For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol." That was the grave.
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He says, "Or let your Holy One see corruption." See, God promised to His Messiah, to just put it in less poetic words, He says, "My Messiah will not rot. His body will not corrupt." Meaning, He will not stay dead.
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So there's your second witness, the Scriptures.
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Your third witness to the resurrection, eyewitnesses.
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Look at verse 5.
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It says that "He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve, then He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom were still alive, though some had fallen asleep.
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Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles, Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me." Stop there. Paul gives a list.
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He goes, "You want to know some people that have seen the resurrected Christ?" This isn't an exhaustive list, by the way.
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He doesn't mention the women at the tomb, he doesn't mention the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
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Okay, he's like, "I'm going to give you enough witnesses that will keep you busy for a while if you really want to do some investigating.
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First of all, Cephas. Who's that? That's Peter.
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That's the Aramaic way of saying Peter.
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The disciples.
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Then he talks about Jesus appearing to more than 500 believers.
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You're like, "Jeff, can you tell me more about that?" "No, I can't because he gives us all the information we have.
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I don't know where that was, when that was." But Paul encourages fact-checking.
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He says, "Look, a lot of those people are still alive, and if you want to ask them, go ask them." He mentions James, you're like James the Apostle, right?
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No, he's probably talking about Jesus' half-brother.
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Jesus had half-brothers, yeah.
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Mary and Joseph had other children after Jesus.
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And they would be Jesus' half-brothers and sisters because they had the same mother but they didn't have the same father.
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You with me?
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I can start over.
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Well Jesus had a half-brother named James and I think that's who he's talking about here because when you go to Galatians chapter 1 you see a connection here with Paul and then he mentions all the Apostles. Then Paul says he appeared to me. We talked about that when we went through Acts. Now on this list James and Paul were kind of unique because they didn't believe in Jesus before he appeared to them. You're like, "What's your point?" My point is this, if Paul was like, "All of Jesus' buddies say he's still alive." Skeptics would say, "Oh yeah, of course all his buddies say he's alive.
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Maybe they're in on it.
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Maybe they're making it up.
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Maybe this is some kind of scam.
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Maybe something fishy is going on here." And Paul's like, "Okay, what about James and I?" Because you see, we had no motivation to make up something like Jesus resurrecting because we did not believe in him.
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But He showed up, and He changed us.
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The last witness to the resurrection, we're just going to...
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I don't know what else to call this.
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We're just going to call it global impact.
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We're going to jump down to verse 11.
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Look what he says.
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He goes, "Whether then it was I or they, so we preach, and so you believed." In other words, he's like, "Whether it's I'm preaching or somebody else is preaching, it's It's the same message and you're believing it because it's about the message, excuse me, not the messenger.
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Right?
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Like, what do you mean?
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Here's what I mean.
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Between places I've been and people that I know and I'm still in contact with all over the world, you realize the same message is being preached globally.
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that this Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
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And when this message is preached, it's met with the same results.
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Lives are transformed.
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I mean, I can tell you stories about Romania, and Nepal, and Ghana, and Uganda.
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And in 2019, four of us from this church went to the mountain jungles of Thailand, as far away from civilization as you can get.
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And do you know who we found there?
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There were people that were radically transformed from the message of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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And you don't have to just take my word for it.
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We have a lot of people in our church that are involved in missions that you can talk to people that have either been or have connections to the Dominican Republic, India, Cuba, Mexico, Papua New Guinea.
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And guess what they met?
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Guess who they met in all these places?
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that have been radically transformed by the message of the resurrection of Jesus.
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So those are the witnesses to the resurrection.
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But you know, almost as amazing as the resurrection itself is the means by which eternal life is granted.
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And you notice I skipped a couple of verses. We're going to circle back.
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I want you to look at verse 9.
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Verse 9, he says, about Jesus appearing to him, commenting on that, he says, "For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God." Paul reminds us here, he says, "I was on my way to persecute the church, and God, Jesus Christ, intercepted me.
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And it should have been to give me His wrath. Right?
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But He gave me grace.
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Look at verse 10.
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He says, "But by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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And His grace toward me was not in vain.
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On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me." Paul says, "His grace toward me wasn't in vain." Meaning God didn't waste His time on me, because I put His grace to use.
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But it wasn't really me doing the work.
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It was His grace working in me and through me.
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So, the first thing we need to get our heads around, as we're talking about resurrection, is the glorious reality that it causes us to live in grace.
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I just want to talk about grace for a few moments.
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What is grace?
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It's one of those church words that we throw around a lot.
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And if somebody's going to pin you down for a definition of it, you're like, "Oh, let me Google that." What is grace?
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Well, I guess if you go to a theology textbook, grace would say it is the unmerited favor of God.
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That's true.
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I heard a preacher say it this way one time, he said, "Grace is God giving to you what He requires from you." And I really like that.
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But to me, the best definition of grace that I've ever heard came through this little story.
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It's an allegory.
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But to me, it helps us understand grace.
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But I just want you to imagine, if you would please, that you have a 15-year-old son.
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And I want you to imagine, we're pretending here, but imagine you have this 15-year-old son and he goes to a party.
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And at this party, there's another 15-year-old boy who hates your son.
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And this other boy knew your son was going to show up at this party, and he's had this plan ready for weeks.
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He's planning when your son shows up, he hates your son so bad he's going to murder him.
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And that's what happens.
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Your son shows up at the party and he is literally stabbed in the back, blindsided, murdered.
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Are you in the story?
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Because you see, if you as the parent decide you're going to hunt that kid down and you're going to kill him with your bare hands for what he did to your son, that's called vengeance.
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Or let's say you decide you're going to cooperate with the police and you're going to do everything in your power to make sure he gets arrested, and he does, and he goes to court, and he's tried and convicted, and he's in jail for the rest of his life.
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That's called justice.
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Let's say you help the police track that kid down and he ends up in court, and you show up in court and through some inexplicable way you were able to convince the judge to drop all the charges and the judge does and that kid that murdered your son walks out of the courtroom completely free no repercussions that's called mercy but if you take this 15 year old son who murdered, 15 year old kid rather, that murdered your son, if you take this kid into your house and you raise him as if he was your own son, that's called grace.
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We have a hard time with grace as human beings because there's something in us that says surely there is something that I have to do in order to be right with God, but you can't earn it, you can't work for it, and you can't be good enough to get it, because if you could, it would be really hard to make sense of why Jesus died on that cross. Grace is a gift to be received. Did you receive it? On your outline, here are three realizations of those who live in His grace. These are three statements that are completely understood by people who have embraced the grace of Jesus Christ.
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And it all comes from verses 9 and 10, letter A, your first realization, "I am unworthy." Do you notice that? Paul said, "For I am the least of the apostles unworthy to be called an apostle." You have to recognize your unworthiness.
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That you are a sinner by birth and by choice.
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And you've broken God's law and you're guilty of breaking God's law.
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But that's the point that people miss.
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Most people think, okay, yeah, I've done some stuff that, yeah, I shouldn't have.
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Yeah, I've sinned.
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But, you know, I'm gonna try to be a good person from now on and I'm gonna try to do good things.
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But there's a problem with that kind of thinking.
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You know, getting back to the courtroom, if there was a criminal who was in court clearly guilty of committing a crime, and the judge, he says to the judge, "But your honor, I'm gonna tell you what, your honor, "yes, I am guilty, but I promise your honor, "I'm gonna try to do better from now on." And the judge says, "Well, that's good enough for me, "you can go." That's how some people view God.
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Now, would that happen in the courtroom?
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Absolutely not.
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The judge would say, "Hey, I'm glad you want to improve your life, but the reality is you're still guilty, and that's how we are before a holy God." You have to get there. You have to get there.
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It's not, "Okay, I'll try Jesus. Okay, I'll try church.
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Okay, I'll try to do things like Bible way." You don't get it.
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You have to get to the place where you're like, I am such a mess and I don't deserve anything.
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And then you come to a service like this and you look at the cross and the lights start to come on a little bit about grace.
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I'm unworthy.
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Second realization is this, I'm defined by grace.
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Once we truly receive God's grace, please hear me 'cause I know, Listen, we all need to hear this.
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We are defined by His grace.
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Meaning this, when you are in Jesus Christ, you're not living in the past, in your shame, head down.
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Yeah, I know I'm forgiven, but I was such a horrible person and we're not called to live that way.
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Nor are we called to swing the pendulum the other way and live arrogantly.
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Like Jesus sure is lucky to have me on his team.
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We recognize that we didn't earn anything and we humbly accept everything that he gives us and wants to do through us.
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I've shared with you before about serving in the prison ministry and we had a lot of fun in there, didn't we Mark?
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We had a lot of fun in prison ministry.
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I know that sounds weird, but Mark will back me up on that.
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We had a lot of fun in prison ministry.
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But there were some times that weren't so fun.
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And that is when Mark and I would show up for Bible study and somebody would come in that I went to high school with and they would look at me and they'd go, "Jeff Miller, what are you doing here?" I'm like, "I'm here to lead Bible study." They're like, "You're here to lead Bible study?" Like, "Yeah." "Why are you doing that?" Like, "Well, I'm a pastor now." "You're a pastor now?" Like, how in the world?
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'Cause they knew who I was.
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And what do you say about something like that?
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I only have one response.
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It's right here.
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Exactly what Paul said, and you better embrace this too.
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Do you see verse 10?
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He says, "But by the grace of God, I am what I am." It's all I got.
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How about you?
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Have you done some things that you're not proud of?
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Have you had some nasty thoughts that you'd be ashamed?
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People knew?
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Do you have a checkered past?
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Could somebody come to you and say, "How could someone like you think that you're going to serve God in the church and you're gonna go to heaven? How could somebody like you think that? Because I know what a rotten piece of garbage you were.
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How in the world could you say something like that?" We're just like Paul, we're like, "Look, I know I'm not worthy, but it's by God's grace that I am what I am today.
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It's not me. I didn't clean my act up. God got a hold of me. And it was His grace.
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Church, listen. Something, something is going to define you.
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You're going to allow something to be your identity.
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And I guess it could be your mistakes. I wouldn't recommend it.
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It could be your pride. I don't recommend that either.
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But you could be identified by God's grace to say, "Hey, you know, it's by God's grace I am what I am." The last thing, the last realization of someone who lives in His grace says, "I'm powered by grace." Do you see that at the end of verse 10?
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He said, "His grace toward me was not in vain.
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On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them." Meaning the other disciples.
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He says, "Though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me." Grace is a motivator.
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It's kind of a paradox when you think about it.
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Actually there's a couple of paradoxes going on here.
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Here's the first one.
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Instead of making me sit back and be lazy, grace moves me to work as hard as I can for Jesus.
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That's a paradox.
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Because I would think grace, God giving us everything, would make me tempted to just flop down on the beanbag and say, "Hey, God's got this.
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He don't need me.
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He does everything.
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He's got the power, so I'll just coast through life." But somehow, grace motivates me to work as hard as I can.
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The second paradox you saw in the text, I work as hard as I can, but it's not really me doing the work, it's God.
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And you're like, "Well, how does that work?" I don't know how that works, but you don't need to figure out how it works. Just get to work Serve God out of love and appreciation and his power doing what he's called and equipped you to do See, this is what it means to live by grace and It's for this grace that Jesus went to the cross Then ask the worship team to come up and if our elders would come We're going to gather around the Lord's table and as they're getting ready, I want you whether you're streaming this or Sitting here with us today Jump back up to verse 3 because tonight We're going to remember that he died for our sins Now first Corinthians 15, like I said that focuses all about the resurrection But there is no resurrection unless Jesus first dies.
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So we're going to save the party for Sunday.
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Tonight we look to the cross.
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And again, looking at verse 3 in 1 Corinthians 15, I just want you to see that Paul explains Jesus' death on the cross with three words.
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Do you see them?
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He says, "Christ died for our sins." It was my rebellion that put Jesus Christ on that cross.
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It was my selfishness that put Jesus Christ on that cross.
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It was my guilt that put Jesus Christ on that cross.
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And it was yours.
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But while Jesus Christ was on the cross, God treated Him as if He lived your life.
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So that God can treat us as if we live Jesus' life.
Small Group Discussion
Read 1 Cor 15:1-11
What was your big “take-away” from this passage / message?
How do you know when it’s really God’s grace working in you, and not just your own talents / strength / personality / etc (1 Cor 15:10)?
How would you explain to a new believer what it means to “find your identity in Christ” (1 Cor 15:10)?
Breakout
Pray for one another. Pray for those who heard the Gospel message at HBC and surrounding churches.