Resurrection of Jesus Christ

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Resurrectionof Jesus Christ

• Acts 1722-32

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If I can prove to you thatJesus Christ arose
from the dead..

• Will you ,who have never been baptized into Jesus
  Christ do so this morning ?
• Those of you who have been baptized and become
  unfaithful, will you return to the
• Lord Jesus and be restored?
• Those Christians here today who are luke-warm,
  who are not really zealous for Christ,
• Will you resolve to get excited and be really
• Workers for the Messiah?

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Did The Apostles Preach A Physical Resurrection
Of Jesus?

• Acts 122
• Acts 224
• Acts 231
• 1 Cor. 15
• Acts 315
• Acts 42,
• Acts 410
• Acts 433
• Acts 530

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• Peter speaks about replacing Judas
• Acts 122 beginning from the baptism of John,
  unto that same day that he was taken up from us,
  must one be ordained to be a witness with us of
  his resurrection.
• Peter speaking on Pentecost
• .Acts 224  whom God hath raised up, having
  loosed the pains of death because it was not
  possible that he should be holden of it.

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• Peter explaining on Pentecost
• Acts 2 31 he seeing this before spake of the
  resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not
  left in hell, neither his flesh did see
  corruption.
• Paul writing to the Corinthians
• I Cor. 151-4  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto
  you the gospel which I preached unto you, which
  also ye have received, and wherein ye stand 2 by
  which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory
  what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed
  in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all
  that which I also received, how that Christ died
  for our sins according to the scriptures 4 and
  that he was buried, and that he rose again the
  third day according to the scriptures

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• Peters sermon after healing the Lame man,and
  pointing to the power by which it was done!
• Acts 312 1And when Peter saw it, he answered
  unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye
  at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as
  though by our own power or holiness we had made
  this man to walk?
• It was done by God through Jesus Christ, whom
  ye killed!
• Acts 315  and killed the Prince of life, whom
  God hath raised from the dead whereof we are
  witnesses.
• Peter and John are put in prisonwhy?
• Acts 42 being grieved that they taught the
  people, and preached through Jesus the
  resurrection from the dead.

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• Peter preaches to the Sanhedrin
• Acts 410  be it known unto you all, and to all
  the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus
  Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God
  raised from the dead, even by him doth this man
  stand here before you whole.
• The Apostles who prayed for boldness to speak the
  Word..
• Acts 433  And with great power gave the apostles
  witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus
  and great grace was upon them all.

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• Peter and the other apostles preach to the
  Council who had charged them not to preach
• Anymore in the name of Jesus..We must obey God
  rather than man!...
• Acts 530  The God of our fathers raised up
  Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
• Then listen to Pauls preaching I Cor. 15
• Especially verse 14  and if Christ be not risen,
  then is our preaching vain, and your faith is
  also vain

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Look what the Apostles didthey preached it!

• His apostles preached that they saw Jesus
  after He physically rose from the dead.
• Acts 122, as one example, finds Peter and the
  other apostles choosing an apostle who was to
  become a witness of the resurrection of Christ.
• Then, on the Day of Pentecost, Peter insisted
  in his sermon to the multitude that had assembled
  to hear him that God raised up Jesus and thus
  loosed Him from the pangs of death (Acts 224).
• And to make sure that his audience understood
  that it was a physical resurrection, Peter stated
  specifically that Jesus flesh did not see
  corruption (Acts 231). His point was clear
  Jesus had been physically raised from the dead
  and the apostles had witnessed the resurrected
  Christ.

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How Did Jesus Christ Die?

• Johns Account
• 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
  he said, It is finished and he bowed his head,
  and gave up the ghost.

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What Do Others Say?

• Tacitus, the ancient Roman historian writing in
  approximately A.D. 115, documented Christs
  physical demise when he wrote concerning the
  Christians that their originator, Christ, had
  been executed in Tiberius reign by the governor
  of Judea, Pontius Pilatus (1952, 15.44).

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Evidence Is Overwhelming!

• The early disciples traveled far and wide to
  proclaim the central theme
• Christ died for our sins according to the
  scriptures and that he was buried and that he
  hath been raised on the third day according to
  the scriptures (1 Corinthians 153-4).

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Did The Apostles Suffer Die Because Of Teaching
The Resurrection?

• For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles
  last of all, as men doomed to death for we are
  made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels
  and men. We are fools for Christs sake, but ye
  are wise in Christ we are weak, but ye are
  strong ye have glory, but we have dishonor. Even
  unto this present hour we both hunger, and
  thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have
  no certain dwelling-place and we toil, working
  with our own hands being reviled, we bless
  being persecuted, we endure being defamed, we
  entreat we are made as the filth of the world,
  the offscouring of all things, even until now (1
  Corinthians 49-13).

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JESUS AROSE!

• The former treatise I made, O Theophilus,
  concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to
  teach, until the day in which he was received up,
  after that he had given commandment through the
  Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen
  To whom he also showed himself alive after his
  passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by
  the space of forty days, and speaking the things
  concerning the kingdom of God (Acts 11-3).

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It is true that --Jesus was raisedfrom the dead!

• Do you believe that???
• He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words,
  has that which judges him the word that I have
  spoken will judge him in the last day." (John
  1248, NKJV)
• "Then He said to them all, If anyone
  desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,
  and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."
  (Luke 923, NKJV)
• "No servant can serve two masters for
  either he will hate the one and love the other,
  or else he will be loyal to the one and despise
  the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
  (Luke 1613, NKJV)
• "He who finds his life will lose it, and he
  who loses his life for My sake will find it."
  (Matthew 1039, NKJV)
• Therefore let all the house of Israel know
  assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you
  crucified, both Lord and Christ." (Acts 236,
  NKJV)

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Is there a contradiction in the Bible about his
Resurrection?

• They are supplementary (with each writer
  adding names to make the list more complete), but
  they are not contradictory.
• If John had said only Mary Magdalene
  visited the tomb, or if Matthew had stated that
  Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were the only
  women to visit the tomb, then there would be a
  contradiction.
• As it stands, however, no contradiction
  occurs.

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A Good Illustration I found

• Suppose you have 10 one-dollar bills in your
  pocket.
• Someone comes up to you and asks, Do you
  have a dollar bill in your pocket? Naturally,
  you respond in the affirmative.
• Suppose another person asks, Do you have
  five dollars in your pocket? and again you say
  that you do.
• Finally, another person asks, Do you have
  ten dollars in your pocket? and you say yes for
  the third time.
• Did you tell the truth every time?
• Yes, you did.
• Were all three statements about the
  contents of your pockets different?
• Yes, they were. But were any of your answers
  contradictory? No, they were not
• . How so? The fact is supplementation does
  not equal contradiction!

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Someone has said

• In Acts,
• Luke mentions
• 1. 32 Countries
• 2. 54 cities
• 3. 9 Mediterranean islands.
• 4. He also mentions
• .95 persons
• (62) of which are not mentioned
  elsewhere in the N.T.,.
• And his references, where checkable, are
  always correct.
• This is truly remarkable, in view of
  the fact that the political/territorial situation
  of his day was in a state of almost constant
  change (1991, 272).

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Jesus Christ is REAL!

• The science of archaeology seems to have
  outdone itself in verifying the Scriptures.
• Eminent archaeologist William F. Albright
  wrote There can be no doubt that archaeology
  has confirmed the substantial historicity of the
  Old Testament tradition (1953, p. 176).
• The late Nelson Glueck, himself a pillar
  within the archaeological community, said
• It may be stated categorically that no
  archaeological discovery has ever controverted a
  Biblical reference.
• Scores of archaeological findings have been
  made which confirm in clear outline or exact
  detail historical statements in the Bible (1959,
  p. 31).

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All Done In A Corner?

• While Paul was on trial before King Agrippa, he
  said to Festus For the king knoweth of these
  things, unto whom also I speak freely for I am
  persuaded that none of these things is hidden
  from him for this hath not been done in a
  corner (Acts 2626).

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• "Why should it be thought incredible by you that
  God raises the dead?" (Acts 268, NKJV)

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Acts 1722-32

• 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill,
  and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in
  all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I
  passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an
  altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
  Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare
  I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all
  things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven
  and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with
  hands 25 neither is worshipped with mens hands,
  as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth
  to all life, and breath, and all things 26 and
  hath made of one blood all nations of men for to
  dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
  determined the times before appointed, and the
  bounds of their habitation 27 that they should
  seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after
  him, and find him, though he be not far from
  every one of us 28 for in him we live, and move,
  and have our being as certain also of your own
  poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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Acts 1722-32

• 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God,
  we ought not to think that the Godhead is like
  unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and
  mans device. 30 And the times of this ignorance
  God winked at but now commandeth all men every
  where to repent 31 because he hath appointed a
  day, in the which he will judge the world in
  righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained
  whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in
  that he hath raised him from the dead.
• 32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the
  dead, some mocked and others said, We will hear
  thee again of this matter.

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JESUS IS REAL!!

• He was on this earth.
• He died on the cross.
• He arose from the grave.
• He ascended into Heaven from this earth!
• And,
• He will come againI know He will.
• Because He said that he would.

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Acts 19-11

• 9 And when he had spoken these things, while they
  beheld, he was taken up and a cloud received him
  out of their sight. 10 And while they looked
  stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold,
  two men stood by them in white apparel 11 which
  also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing
  up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken
  up from you into heaven, shall so come in like
  manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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• I want to be with Himdont you?
• I want to go to Heaven when I die..dont you?
• I have to believe and obey, just like you
• if I want to dwell with my Saviour forevermore.
• Jesus wants you to be baptized. He said
  soMark 1615,16
• Jesus wants you to be faithful. He said so.
• I Cor. 1558
• When we sin as children of God, which we
  do, we can go to the Lord for
• His forgiveness. I John 21-2

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I KNOW JESUS DIEDAND THAT HE AROSE!

• Matt.285-6 And the angel answered and said unto
  the women, Fear not ye for I know that ye seek
  Jesus, which was crucified. 6 He is not here for
  he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place
  where the Lord lay.
• Mark 165-6  And entering into the sepulchre,
  they saw a young man sitting on the right side,
  clothed in a long white garment and they were
  affrighted. 6 And he saith unto them, Be not
  affrighted Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was
  crucified he is risen he is not here behold
  the place where they laid him.
• Luke 245-6 5 and as they were afraid, and bowed
  down their faces to the earth, they said unto
  them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? 6 He
  is not here, but is risen remember how he spake
  unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

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John 201-10

•  The first day of the week cometh Mary
  Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the
  sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from
  the sepulchre. 2 Then she runneth, and cometh to
  Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom
  Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken
  away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know
  not where they have laid him. 3 Peter therefore
  went forth, and that other disciple, and came to
  the sepulchre. 4 So they ran both together and
  the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came
  first to the sepulchre. 5 And he stooping down,
  and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying yet
  went he not in.

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• 6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went
  into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes
  lie, 7 and the napkin, that was about his head,
  not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped
  together in a place by itself. 8 Then went in
  also that other disciple, which came first to the
  sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. 9 For as yet
  they knew not the scripture, that he must rise
  again from the dead.
• 10 Then the disciples went away again unto their
  own home.

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God wants you to believe inJesus

• And obey HimHeb. 58,9
• Softly and Tenderly Jesus is calling..
• Will you, please, come to Him Now.
• 2 Cor. 62