JESUS IS LIFE (Part 2) - October 18, 2020

We serve a living Savior – Savior of the world!

JESUS IS LIFE Part 2
(“Resurrection Life”)

REVELATION 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires (is willing), let him take the WATER OF LIFE freely.

LIFE IS A CHOICE

Deut. 30:19,20 …I have set before you LIFE and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE LIFE… love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for HE IS YOUR LIFE and the length of your days…

LIFE IS PRECIOUS!

TO BE PRO-LIFE IS TO BE PRO-GOD, BECAUSE GOD IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE!

RESURRECTION LIFE

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I AM the RESURRECTION and the LIFE. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live.
I PETER 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a LIVING HOPE through the RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ from the dead…

LIVING HOPE

“LIVING HOPE” IS A DESIRE THAT YOU ARE CONVINCED IS BASED UPON A CERTAINTY!
PETER’S LIFE WAS ANCHORED IN WHAT HE CALLED A “LIVING HOPE” BECAUSE OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION.

RESURRECTION POWER

Philippians 3:10 …that I may know Him and the power of His RESURRECTION…
JOHN 5:29 …and shall come forth—those who have done good, to the RESURRECTION OF LIFE, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation (damnation).

JESUS CHRIST’S resurrection offers abundant HOPE and confirms the truth of His other promises.

DID JESUS REALLY RISE FROM THE DEAD?

Although there are many sceptics and unbelievers – IT IS TRUE!

MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS

Acts 1:3 to whom He also PRESENTED HIMSELF ALIVE after His suffering by MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Luke 24:2,3 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. ³Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. (& the guards were missing!)
Luke 24:4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments.
Luke 24:11 And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did NOT believe them.
Luke 24:12 Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.

MANY POST RESURRECTION APPEARANCES

MARY MAGDALENE (John 20:14)
WOMEN RETURNING FROM THE TOMB (Matthew 28:9,10)
PETER LATER ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON (Luke 24:34)
DISCIPLES ON THE EMMAUS ROAD (Luke 24:13-33)
THE APOSTLES (Thomas absent) (Luke 24:36-43)
THE APOSTLES (Thomas present (John 20:26-29)
THE SEVEN BY THE LAKE OF TIBERIAS (John 21:1-23)
A MULTITUDE OF OVER 500 BELIEVERS ON A GALILEAN MOUNTAIN (Corinthians 15:6)
THE ELEVEN APOSTLES (Matthew 28:16-20)
AT THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST (Acts 1:3-12)
SAUL WHO BECAME PAUL THE APOSTLE (Acts 9:3-6)
STEPHEN BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (Acts 7:55)
THE APOSTLE JOHN ON THE ISLAND OF PATMOS (Revelation 1:1-10)

NO BODY WAS EVER PRODUCED BY THE JEWISH LEADERS
THE REMARKABLE CHANGE IN THE LIVES OF THE DISCIPLES
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST (Acts 2:1-4)
THE CHANGED LIVES OF THOSE WHO HAVE OPENED THEIR HEARTS TO JESUS CHRIST DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES
THE PROPHECIES OF CHRIST CONCERNING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN DOWN THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY
THE QUESTION OF REJECTION OF CHRIST ISN’T SO MUCH “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!” – BUT ”I WON’T” (desiring to live our lives our way, & pursue our own selfish pleasures and pursuits).
JESUS CLAIMED THAT HE WOULD CONQUER DEATH BY RESURRECTING AFTER THREE DAYS AND RETURN TO HIS DISCIPLES IN A GLORIFIED BODY.

(No other spiritual leader – Buddha, Mohammed, leaders of Hinduism or any other leader has made or validated such a claim)

THE RESURRECTION

Jesus RESURRECTION validates everything He claimed about Himself and His mission!
JESUS BASED THE VALIDITY OF HIS CLAIMS OF WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE TAUGHT UPON HIS ABIITY TO CONQUER DEATH.
THE RESURRECTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE VERY FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY.

I CORINTHIANS 15 If Christ did not rise from the dead our faith would be in vain (useless).

(vs 12-20)

I CORINTHIANS 15:1-8 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you THE GOSPEL which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, ²by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. ³For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴and that He was buried, and that HE ROSE AGAIN the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. ⁶After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, … ⁷After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. ⁸Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

JESUS PROPHESIED HIS RESURRECTION

Matthew 17:22-23 Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the ands of me, and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES

In His death, Jesus fulfilled around 300 prophecies from the Old Testament!

JESUS IS ALIVE FOREVER!

Revelation 1:17-19 … I am He who LIVES, and was dead, and behold, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades (hell) and of Death.
REVELATION 2:8 These things says the first and the last, which was dead, and IS ALIVE;…
MATTHEW 28:6-10 …6 He is not here: FOR HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. ⁷and go quickly and tell his disciples that HE IS RISEN from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him. behold, I have told you.” ⁸So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word. ⁹And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, JESUS MET THEM, saying, “Rejoice!” So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him. ¹⁰Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there THEY WILL SEE ME.” ¹⁶Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. ¹⁷When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

LIVING SAVIOR

WE SERVE A LIVING SAVIOR – SAVIOR OF THE WORLD!

I TIMOTHY 4:10 …we trust in the LIVING GOD, who is the SAVIOR of all men, specially of those that believe.

I JOHN 4:14 …and we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the

SAVIOR OF THE WORLD!

JESUS IS COMING SOON!

Revelation 22:7,12,20 Behold, surely I COME QUICKLY!

PERSONAL APPLICATION

Revelation 1:17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.

INSIGHTS – 1

REVELATION OF THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD BRINGS DEATH TO THE FLESH!
PSALM 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11 ⁹Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, That at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

INSIGHTS – 2

REVELATION OF THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD BRINGS SUBMISSION AND WORSHIP!

INSIGHTS – 3

AS CHRISTIANS WE CAN BE TRIUMPHANT & VICTORIOUS IN THIS LIFE THROUGH JESUS, WHO OVERCAME THE GRAVE, DEATH, AND THE DEVIL!
ROMANS 6:5-6 ⁴Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was RAISED FROM THE DEAD by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His RESURRECTION …
ROMANS 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also GIVE LIFE to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
I JOHN 3:2 …we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see him as He is.