"Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!"
Review: Matthew 28:6
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Open up your Bibles to Matthew 28.
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If you need a Bible, they are available in the back of your seats.
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And you can keep that as our gift to you.
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If you need a copy of God's Word.
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Matthew 28.
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Verse 6.
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He is not here.
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For He has risen as He said.
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Come, see the place where He lay." From the cross, we studied seven words, seven statements from our Lord.
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He was arrested.
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He was accused.
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He was beaten.
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He was mocked.
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He was crucified.
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He was dead and he was buried.
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The Lamb of God sacrificed for us all.
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But after three days in the grave, today we're going to look at just one word from the tomb.
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One statement.
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He is not here, for He has risen.
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As he said, "Come, see the place where he lay." More was said.
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But for this morning, you're going to see that this statement tells you everything that you need to know.
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I want you to actually back up to verse 1 here.
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We're going to sort of set the seed here.
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We're going to be looking over the shoulder of some faithful women.
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Verse 1 says, "Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb." Now when you compare the four gospels, you realize that there are more women involved.
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There was Mary Magdalene, there was Mary the mother of James and Joseph, there was Salome who was the mother of James and John, and there was Joanna.
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The Bible says that they were at the tomb on Friday when the rock was placed, and they went back to see the grave.
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Mark actually tells us that they were going to anoint Jesus, a process that had already started but they were going to finish anointing the dead body of Jesus Christ, so they thought.
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Look at verse 2. It says, "And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it." It says there was an earthquake. And you know, if you study your Bibles, a lot of times when God is doing something really big, He accompanies that with an earthquake. It's almost like God reaches down from heaven and grabs the earth and He says, "I'm up to something here!" We saw it when God gave the law. Earthquake. We saw it when Jesus was on the cross. Earthquake.
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And spoiler alert, read the book of Revelation. The events bringing the close of this age.
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here at the empty tomb, earthquake.
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Well, what caused the earthquake?
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You know, the Bible actually tells us what caused the earthquake.
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It says right here, look again.
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It says, "Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended." It sounds like he was one heavy angel.
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That when he descended from heaven and hit the ground, it shook the earth.
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What do you think that looked like?
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Then he rolled back the stone.
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Now, I think sometimes it's depicted as very wrongly, but sometimes we think, because of these depictions, we think that the angel rolled the stone back to let Jesus out, almost as if he had resurrected and was just kind of in the tomb waiting, and the angel shows up and says, "Okay, I'm here to let you out." And that is not how that went down at all.
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Because by the time the angel got there, Jesus was alive and gone.
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So why did he roll back the stone?
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He didn't roll back the stone to let Jesus out.
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He rolled back that stone to let the women see in.
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Look at verses 3 through 6.
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It says, "His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
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And for fear of him, the guards trembled and became like dead men." Do you think?
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Do you think?
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An angel descends from heaven, hits the ground, shakes it, rolls a stone back and plops down?
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Yeah.
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Totally get that, right?
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But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
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He is not here.
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For He has risen as He said.
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Come, see the place where He lay." Can you imagine?
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Can you imagine what was going through those ladies' minds As they're walking to the tomb, they'd seen Jesus die.
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They saw Him placed in the tomb.
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They're literally carrying the spices to anoint Him.
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Can you imagine what went through their minds when that angel said, "He's not here.
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He has risen as He said He would.
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Come.
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Look at the place where He was.
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ, church, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of our faith.
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It is the chief doctrine.
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It is the pinnacle.
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It is the most important event in history.
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Because if Jesus was still in that tomb, if there was no resurrection, there would be no church.
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There would be no Christianity.
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there would be no hope.
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You're still in your sins, your faith is worthless, and you've got nothing to look forward to.
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But, but!
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He is not here.
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For He has risen.
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As He said.
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Come.
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See the place where He lay.
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And you might say, "Okay, well, okay, the Bible says Jesus resurrected, but what does that have to do with me?
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That was 2,000 years ago and a whole other part of the world.
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What does that have to do with me?" And the Bible says, "That has everything to do with you." Jot this reference down, but it's Romans 4.25.
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I want to talk about that for just a minute.
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Romans 4.25 says, "Jesus was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification." In other words, Jesus was crucified for our sin, and He rose from the dead for our, the Bible says, our justification.
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I want you to think of it in terms of almost like your bank account.
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How much debt did you owe to God?
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The answer is infinite.
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You had an infinite, perfect, total debt.
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Imagine going to the bank and saying, "How much money do I have in my account?" And they just show you one of those sideways eight infinity symbols.
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Negative infinity, that's what you owe.
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You had an infinite, perfect, and total debt.
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But you see, the Bible says that Jesus didn't just take us to a zero balance.
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The Bible doesn't say that Jesus said, "Okay, I'm going to die for your sins.
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Now you're at zero.
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You don't owe God anything.
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We're good." The Bible says that Jesus did something even greater, according to 2 Corinthians 5.21.
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He gave us, He put on our account an infinite, perfect, total righteousness to all who would believe.
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So just as your debt was infinite, negative infinity.
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See Jesus' death on the cross took you to zero, and His resurrection from the dead puts you in the positive, giving you the righteousness of God.
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And again, this is for all who would believe.
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Saying, "Believe in Jesus," doesn't just mean that you acknowledge Him.
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Believing in Jesus doesn't just mean that you walk out of here today and say, "Okay, yeah, I went to church, okay, didn't disagree with too much that the preacher said." That's not what it means to believe in Jesus.
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Believing is personalizing.
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Believing means, "Jesus did this for me." Believing means, "I deserve God's wrath, and Jesus took it for me." Believing means, "Jesus rose from the dead to give me His righteousness." Have you personalized it? Do you believe it?
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Have you taken this message from historical facts, historical events, to a personal act from Jesus on your behalf?
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There's a difference.
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Did a man named Jesus of Nazareth die on a cross 2,000 years ago?
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History tells you that.
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Just like history tells you about Abraham Lincoln or George Washington or whatever.
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Everybody readily acknowledges that.
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That's not the issue.
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The issue is, did you personalize that?
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Does that mean something to you personally?
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Have you received Jesus Christ?
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He is not here, for He has risen.
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As He said, "Come, see the place where He lay." So what do we make from the word from the tomb?
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For those who were there, and for us, I want to leave you with two things this morning that you have to take with you.
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First of all, it's a declaration.
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And secondly, it's an invitation.
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First of all, it's a declaration of who Jesus is.
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It's a declaration of who Jesus is.
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Very simply, the angel said, "He is not here, for He has risen as He said." Let's be honest, if Jesus didn't rise from the dead, He was just a martyr.
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He was just a martyr.
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He was a guy that had strong beliefs about something, and He made the wrong people angry and they killed Him.
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If He didn't rise from the dead.
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If Jesus Christ didn't rise from the dead, He was either a liar, or He was delusional.
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Because, notice the angel says, "He is not here, for He is risen." Did you see those last three words?
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"As He said." Did Jesus say that was going to happen?
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Matthew 12.40, Matthew 16.21, Matthew 17.23, Matthew 20.19, Matthew 27.64, it was restated, then you go to the Gospel of Mark 9.31, Mark 10.34, Luke 9.22, Luke 18.33, Luke 24.7, verse 21, verse 26.
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Jesus said over and over and over, this is how it's going down.
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I'm going to be arrested, I'm going to be put in the hands of sinful men, I'm going to be crucified, and on the third day I'm going to be raised from the dead.
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And every single time He said it, it went right over their heads.
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Why? They just were spiritually blind, they didn't see it.
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Even the women were showing up to anoint the corpse.
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Even though Jesus over and over and over said, I'm going to raise from the dead." They just couldn't wrap their brains around it.
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Oh, but He did.
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It completed His mission.
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It proved His deity.
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Therefore, listen to this, "Therefore, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God ordained that to be the focal point of your faith." that the resurrection of Jesus is the God-ordained focal point of faith.
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Romans 10.9 says, "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." 1 Thessalonians 4.14 says, "For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep." 1 Peter 1.3 says, "God the Father caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." So again, the focal point of our faith is not, "Do you believe that Jesus lived?" Or even, "Do you believe that Jesus died?" The focal point of faith is this, "Do you believe Jesus is who He said He is?" rose from the dead as He said He would for the reasons that God says He did.
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What reasons?
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For your salvation, for your assurance of heaven, for your adoption as a child of God, for your being a co-heir with Christ, for your eternal life.
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Jesus rose from the dead to accomplish all of those things.
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So understand from the tomb, this is a declaration.
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He is not here.
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He has risen as He said.
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It's a declaration.
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He proved who He was.
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He proved who He is.
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So it's a declaration.
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Secondly, it's an invitation.
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It's an invitation for us to discover who Jesus is.
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Look at the rest of verse 6.
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This is what I want to give to you today.
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The angel said to the women, "And I say to you, come, see the place where He lay." "Come," the angel says, "Look, come.
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I want to show you where He was laying." Do you know what I thought about a lot this week?
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It's really interesting to me.
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For everything the Bible says about the resurrection of Jesus, you know, I just shared with you and showed you how it's the focal point of our faith, right?
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And it's the most significant event in history, and churches all over the Pittsburgh area and all over the world are celebrating this event.
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It's the biggest thing to ever happen, right?
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Do you know what's interesting about that?
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For this to be as important as God says it is, as His Word declares it is, and as every Bible preacher gets up and is declaring today, for as important as it is, do you know that nobody actually saw Jesus raised from the dead?
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Nobody saw it.
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Nobody was there in the tomb when bloody, lifeless Jesus sat up.
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Nobody was there to witness.
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And I'm like, "Wait, wait, wait." This has gone through my mind like crazy this week.
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I'm like, "If this is that important, why wasn't it witnessed by anybody?" Oh, well, many people experienced it, and many went out and preached it, and many people have given their lives for it, so please don't mishear me.
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I'm saying the thing that I've been really thinking a lot about this week is just the fact that nobody saw it.
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Eventually, literally, hundreds of people saw the risen Jesus.
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That's not what I'm saying at all.
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The Bible says hundreds of people saw Him after He rose from the dead.
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But all that was seen at first was the empty tomb.
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At first, all that was seen was the empty tomb.
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And here's the thing that I've been just kind of wrestling through this week is, why did God do it that way?
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You're waiting for an answer, aren't you?
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If I were Jesus, did you ever play that game?
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Oh, I have.
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If I were Jesus, do you know what I would have done?
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I'll tell you exactly what I would have done.
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if I were Jesus.
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Do you know what I would have done?
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I would have risen from the dead immediately and it would have been the loudest, brightest explosion in history.
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And I would have come flying out of that tomb.
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And do you know what I would have done?
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I thought a lot about this this week.
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Do you know what I would have done?
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With lightning shooting from every pore of my body.
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I would have stood in the exact place that Pilate condemned me, in the exact place that the crowds were screaming crucify him.
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I would have stood in that exact place in front of all of those people and I would have said, do you believe now who I am?
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That's what I would have done.
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Do you believe now?
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You who mocked me and insulted me, and laughed at me, and beat me, and crucified me, do you believe I'm the son of God now?
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Look at me!
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That's what I would've done.
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I would've made sure that every single person saw me.
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And I would say, especially the people who mocked me.
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but that's not how he did it.
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He rose from the dead.
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Nobody saw that event.
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And then, he showed himself.
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Mind-blowing.
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He showed himself, but only to the people who believed in him.
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He only showed himself to the people who loved him.
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Did you know that?
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No, I so wouldn't have done it that way.
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I would have blown a hole in the side of Herod's palace.
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I would have made sure that every single person saw me.
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He only showed himself to those who believed in him.
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And eventually the Apostle Paul, and if you've been at our church for any amount of time, you know that we've been sort of studying that story, haven't we?
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This gets us back to the original question of why.
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Why was this the way that He chose to do it?
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Why was the empty tomb the evidence that He left for the world?
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"Come, see the place where He lay." That's the evidence the world gets.
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Here's why.
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God doesn't force Himself on anyone.
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He could.
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He could reach down from heaven and He could grab you and say, "You're going to have a relationship with Me because I created you, pal." He could do that.
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But He doesn't.
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Here's what God has done instead.
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Gloriously. So much more gloriously.
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He has - listen to this please - He has ordained faith as the means by which people who want to know Him can enter into a loving and fulfilling relationship with Him.
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Or people who don't want to know Him can refuse to believe and live their entire lives apart from God.
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That's a terrible plan by the way, if you choose the second one.
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The empty tomb.
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That's the evidence that's given to the world at large.
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That's the evidence given.
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Because the empty tomb, the empty tomb allows us to investigate, or the empty tomb allows us to be ignorant.
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We can investigate it.
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Jesus rose from the dead, really? I gotta check that out. Is there truth to that?
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And what does that mean?
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You can investigate that, or you can choose to be ignorant.
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You can leave here today and say, some people there seem pretty fired up about that, but honestly, I don't really care.
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The empty tomb allows you to do that.
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The empty tomb allows you to be honest or dishonest.
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The empty tomb allows you to be honest to say, Look, Jesus has to be God.
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He has to be.
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He has to be.
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Look at everything that happened.
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Look at everything that took place.
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He has to be God.
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But you know, the empty tomb also allows you to be dishonest.
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It allows people to say, "Well, there must be some other explanation "as to why we didn't see Jesus' body in the tomb." Have you heard these things?
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Idiotic.
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There's no other word for it.
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You heard these, here's a theory, it's actually, the Bible talks about how people were trying to promote this theory from day one, and people still hold to this theory.
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But one theory about why the tomb was empty was that the disciples stole his body.
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Okay, so here's how that theory goes.
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When Jesus was arrested, you remember how the disciples sort of scattered like cockroaches when the lights come on, and only John was there.
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Remember that?
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Remember the big, bad, brave disciples all hiding?
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So this theory goes that these disciples somehow either overpowered or snuck past or whatever the guards and rolled the tomb, and then they stole Jesus' body out of the tomb, and then to really sweeten their plan, they're like, "Here's what we're going to do.
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We're going to go tell people that He rose from the dead.
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And even when people say, "Hey, stop saying that or we'll kill you," we'll keep saying it anyways.
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Like, who signed on for that plan?
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That plan makes no sense on about eight levels.
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This idea that the disciples stole Jesus' body.
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That's not even the dumbest one that I've heard though.
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Do you want to hear the dumbest one?
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The dumbest one is, Jesus didn't really die.
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Oh, he was beaten half to death, and he was hanging on the cross, and these soldiers, who basically their whole job was to know how to kill people, and they took him down, and they said he was dead, and they put him in the tomb.
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Here's how this theory goes.
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I seriously can't say this without laughing, but this theory goes, they put him in the tomb, and they say the cool air from the tomb revived him.
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Jesus was dead, and it's like this, Mostly dead. Mostly dead. Mostly dead.
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And the cool air came on, and Jesus was like, "Ah!" And Jesus was in the tomb, and keep in mind, He was just crucified and beaten.
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So the cool air revived Him, as cool air does, you know.
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And then Jesus rolled the stone out of the way.
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Keep in mind, you know, the beating and all that.
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Jesus, eye of the tiger, He was like, "Roll the stone out of the way." And then crucified Jesus walked on His nail-pierced feet to His disciples, tattered and bloody and beaten, looking like something too graphic to show in a zombie movie.
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But Jesus showed up to His disciples like that and said, I rose from the dead." And they were like, "Yes, you did, obviously." And they went out and told people about the glorious risen Lord that was revived by the magic waft of air in the tomb or whatever.
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Oh, there's more. I'm not going to waste your time. There's more.
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You can look them up. There's so many stupid theories out there.
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Look, the empty tomb lets you be honest and it lets you be dishonest.
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you can be honest and say, "Look, there's really only one explanation for what happened to Jesus.
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He's God, and He rose from the dead, and He is awesome!" Or, "He wasn't really dead, magic tomb, air, disciples as commandos or whatever." You have the choice.
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And finally, the empty tomb allows you to see with eyes of faith, or it allows you to remain hard-hearted.
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The empty tomb allows you to see with eyes of faith.
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You can look at that empty tomb and you can say, "He loves me.
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He died for me. He rose from the dead for me. I will worship Him." Or, you can remain hard-hearted and say, "I don't want Him to be my Lord.
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Nobody tells me what to do. I live life on my own terms." I guess the empty tomb lets you have that option, doesn't it?
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He is not here, for He has risen, as He said.
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"Come, see the place where He lay." Would you bow your heads with me please?
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I'm going to lead us in a prayer in a moment.
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But if you are sitting here today, and you have never received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, if you've never embraced this gift that He accomplished on the cross and with the resurrection.
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Listen, it's time to step up.
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It's time to stop shrinking back. It's time to stop making excuses.
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It's time to stop trying to justify in your own mind.
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Today is the day that you need to pray, "God, I'm crying out to You.
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I've lived life my own way for too long, and I've been wrong, and I see what You've done for me.
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God, I see that you love me.
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God, I see that you sent your son to die for me.
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God, I see that you rose your son from the dead so that all of my sins can be forgiven and I can have a relationship with you and I can have the promise of heaven.
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God, you did that for me.
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I'm giving my life to you today." Somebody here needs to pray a prayer like that.
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Somebody here needs to pray, "God, I've known about this message.
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But I've never really taken it that seriously.
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It's just been sort of an event in my mind, but I've never embraced it that this has everything to do with me.
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And God, today, today, April 1st, 2018, today, God, I'm done playing games.
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I want to receive the gift of eternal life that you purchased for me at the blood of your own Son, secured for me with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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And I'm going to ask you, as you're praying, if there's somebody here that wants to make that decision today, I want you to go to that sign that says "Pray" in the corner and meet up with one of the members of our prayer team or come to guest reception back in the other corner where I'll be after service.
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I would be more than happy to pray with you. We can step aside.
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But this is way too important to put off.
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The Bible says that today is the day of salvation.
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This week we've had two deaths in our family.
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And as horrific and tragic as that is, it's a reminder of the urgency of the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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None of us are guaranteed tomorrow.
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Do you need to pray that prayer?
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Do you need to cry out?
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Do you need to turn from your sin, say, "I'm tired of living for myself and living for my sin.
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I'm turning from my sin, I'm turning to Jesus Christ today.
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Don't leave here until you've done business with God.
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Join us at the prayer sign in one corner, join me in guest reception in the other after we close our service.
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Don't leave until you've done business with God.
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Father in heaven, we can't even fathom these events.
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the impact that it must have had on those people who originally saw the empty tomb.
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And today, Father, with eyes of faith, we again look at that empty tomb.
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And oh yes, Father, You could have put Jesus on brilliant display for the world to see.
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But that's not how You chose to work.
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You have given all of us an empty tomb to look at.
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You see that Jesus Christ reveals Himself to the people who are seeking Him.
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Just like He did after His resurrection, we know that's still happening.
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He's going to reveal Himself.
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Your Holy Spirit is going to reveal Your majesty and Your glory, Father, to those who have a heart, who are seeking Him.
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And I pray, God, I pray for the same wonder, The same awe, the same worship to continue to be repeated today as it was that day that that angel said to those women, "He is not here, for He has risen as He said." Come, see the place where He lay.
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Thank you, Father.
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Thank you.
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Thank You, Father.
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We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Matthew 28:6
Why do you think nobody saw Jesus actually resurrect, they just saw the empty tomb at first?
Why is the resurrection the focal point of faith? Why is believing Jesus resurrected the most important thing (See Romans 10:9)?
How does the resurrection of Jesus Christ impact your daily living today?
Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.
