Do you understand the logical basis for faith in Christ?

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• What if someone asked you this question Why
  Christianity?

2
Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• What if someone asked you this question Why
  Christianity?
• If you have not heard this question, your
  children will.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• What if someone asked you this question Why
  Christianity?
• If you have not heard this question, your
  children will.
• Christianity is not based upon a blind faith
  but rather a reasonable faith.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• (1 Pet 315 NKJV) - But sanctify the Lord God
  in your hearts, and always be ready to give a
  defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the
  hope that is in you, with meekness and fear

5
Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• Christianity is not just a system of philosophy
  or values.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• Christianity is not just a system of philosophy
  or values.
• It is dependent upon the identity of its founder,
  Jesus.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• (Mat 1613-17 NKJV) - When Jesus came into the
  region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His
  disciples, saying, Who do men say that I, the
  Son of Man, am? 14 So they said, Some say
  John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others
  Jeremiah or one of the prophets. 15 He said to
  them, But who do you say that I am?

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• 16 Simon Peter answered and said, You are the
  Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 Jesus
  answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon
  Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed
  this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• Contrast this with the religions of Buddha and
  Mohammed.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• If either figure never actually existed, you
  still would have in essence their religion.

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Do you understand the logical basis for faith in
Christ?

• If either figure never actually existed, you
  still would have in essence their religion.
• These systems have no crucial historical events
  at their foundations.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• Paul knew the consequences!
  (1 Cor 1512-19)

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• (1 Cor 1512-19 NKJV) - Now if Christ is
  preached that He has been raised from the dead,
  how do some among you say that there is no
  resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no
  resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not
  risen. 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our
  preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of
  God, because we have testified of God that He
  raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up if in
  fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead
  do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And
  if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile you
  are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who
  have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ,
  we are of all men the most pitiable.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• The apostles are liars.

17
What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• The apostles are liars.
• There is no forgiveness of sins.

18
What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• The apostles are liars.
• There is no forgiveness of sins.
• Those who died as a Christian are gone forever.

19
What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• The apostles are liars.
• There is no forgiveness of sins.
• Those who died as a Christian are gone forever.
• Those who make sacrifices to be a Christian are
  "of all men the most pitiable.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• The apostles are liars.
• There is no forgiveness of sins.
• Those who died as a Christian are gone forever.
• Those who make sacrifices to be a Christian are
  "of all men the most pitiable.
• The Jesus of the Bible is an impostor

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• Knowledgeable Atheists will challenge
  Christianity here.

22
What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• Knowledgeable Atheists will challenge
  Christianity here.
• Could Jesus have been only a good, moral man and
  nothing more?

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• Knowledgeable Atheists will challenge
  Christianity here.
• Could Jesus have been only a good, moral man and
  nothing more?
• Jesus claimed to be the Son of God!

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• (John 1036 NKJV) do you say of Him whom the
  Father sanctified and sent into the world, You
  are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son
  of God?

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• If people believed this claim, they would
  radically change their lives to follow Jesus.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• If people believed this claim, they would
  radically change their lives to follow Jesus.
• Jesus said his words were so important that one
  day men would be judged before God by how they
  followed them..

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• (John 1248 NKJV) 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.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• In light of his claims Jesus was either a liar, a
  lunatic, or the Lord.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• In light of his claims Jesus was either a liar, a
  lunatic, or the Lord.
• He was a liar if He claimed to be the Son of God
  and knew He was not. If this is true He should
  be exposed.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• In light of his claims Jesus was either a liar, a
  lunatic, or the Lord.
• He was a liar if He claimed to be the Son of God
  and knew He was not. If this is true He should
  be exposed.
• He was a lunatic if He claimed to be the Son of
  God but was just a man. Sane people do not make
  this claim!

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• In light of his claims Jesus was either a liar, a
  lunatic, or the Lord.
• He was a liar if He claimed to be the Son of God
  and knew He was not. If this is true He should
  be exposed.
• He was a lunatic if He claimed to be the Son of
  God but was just a man. Sane people do not make
  this claim!
• He is Lord if His claim is true.

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• There is no middle ground!

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What if there was no Historical Jesus?

• There is no middle ground!
• So far we have not considered any evidence. We
  have only identified the nature of
  Christianity and the foundation on which it rests.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• Many when they speak of faith think in terms of
  feelings, tradition, and prejudice.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• Many when they speak of faith think in terms of
  feelings, tradition, and prejudice.
• This is not the Biblical concept of faith.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• Many when they speak of faith think in terms of
  feelings, tradition, and prejudice.
• This is not the Biblical concept of faith.
• Faith is based upon evidence.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (Heb 111 NKJV) Now faith is the substance of
  things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (1 Pet 315 NKJV) But sanctify the Lord God in
  your hearts, and always be ready to give a
  defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the
  hope that is in you, with meekness and fear

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (John 832 NKJV) And you shall know the truth,
  and the truth shall make you free.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• Those who say faith is a blind leap in the dark
  are wrong.

41
The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• The Christian is not to "park his brains at the
  door".

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• The Christian is not to "park his brains at the
  door".
• At the heart of every sermon of the apostles is
  their eyewitness testimony of the raised Christ.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (Acts 232 NKJV) This Jesus God has raised up,
  of which we are all witnesses.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (Acts 314-15 NKJV) But you denied the Holy One
  and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be
  granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of
  life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we
  are witnesses.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (Acts 530-32 NKJV) The God of our fathers
  raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a
  tree. 31 Him God has exalted to His right hand
  to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to
  Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are
  His witnesses to these things, and so also is the
  Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey
  Him.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (Acts 1039-43 NKJV) And we are witnesses of
  all things which He did both in the land of the
  Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by
  hanging on a tree. 40 Him God raised up on the
  third day, and showed Him openly, 41 not to
  all the people, but to witnesses chosen before by
  God, even to us who ate and drank with Him after
  He arose from the dead.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• 42 And He commanded us to preach to the
  people, and to testify that it is He who was
  ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the
  dead. 43 To Him all the prophets witness that,
  through His name, whoever believes in Him will
  receive remission of sins.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• (Acts 1327-31 NKJV) For those who dwell in
  Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not
  know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets
  which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them
  in condemning Him. 28 And though they found no
  cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He
  should be put to death.

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The Nature of the Evidence - Historical,
Eyewitness Testimony.

• 29 Now when they had fulfilled all that was
  written concerning Him, they took Him down from
  the tree and laid Him in a tomb. 30 But God
  raised Him from the dead. 31 He was seen for
  many days by those who came up with Him from
  Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to
  the people.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• All personal knowledge that we have can be
  reduced to two categories - testimony and memory.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• All personal knowledge that we have can be
  reduced to two categories - testimony and memory.
• Testimony deals with things that others have told
  us..

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• All personal knowledge that we have can be
  reduced to two categories - testimony and memory.
• Testimony deals with things that others have told
  us.
• Memory relates to those things we have personally
  seen.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• All personal knowledge that we have can be
  reduced to two categories - testimony and memory.
• Testimony deals with things that others have told
  us.
• Memory relates to those things we have personally
  seen.
• Every day we accept things as true based upon
  testimony.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Consider some people of history we accept from
  testimony.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Consider some people of history we accept from
  testimony.
• Napoleon.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Consider some people of history we accept from
  testimony.
• Napoleon.
• Caesar.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Consider some people of history we accept from
  testimony.
• Napoleon.
• Caesar.
• George Washington.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Consider some people of history we accept from
  testimony.
• Napoleon.
• Caesar.
• George Washington.
• But not all testimony is valid!

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Consider some people of history we accept from
  testimony.
• Napoleon.
• Caesar.
• George Washington.
• But not all testimony is valid!
• Many will lie or simply are mistaken when they
  bear testimony.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• On what basis do we reject some testimony and
  accept other testimony?

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• On what basis do we reject some testimony and
  accept other testimony?
• Tests for Accepting or Rejecting Testimony.

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• On what basis do we reject some testimony and
  accept other testimony?
• Tests for Accepting or Rejecting Testimony.
• Is the person giving testimony in a position to
  know the facts?

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• On what basis do we reject some testimony and
  accept other testimony?
• Tests for Accepting or Rejecting Testimony.
• Is the person giving testimony in a position to
  know the facts?
• Does he have a ulterior motive in telling his
  account?

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Is this person of good character? Is he reliable?

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The Validity of Historical Testimony.

• Is this person of good character? Is he reliable?
• Are there other witnesses and do they agree?

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Were the apostles in a position to know the
  facts?

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• 1 John 11-3 That which was from the beginning,
  which we have heard, which we have seen with our
  eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands
  have handled, concerning the Word of life -- the
  life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear
  witness, and declare to you that eternal life
  which was with the Father and was manifested to
  us

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• that which we have seen and heard we declare to
  you, that you also may have fellowship with us
  and truly our fellowship is with the Father and
  with His Son Jesus Christ.

69
The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Did the apostles have any advantages in lying
  about the resurrection?

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• (1 Cor 1530-32 NKJV) And why do we stand in
  jeopardy every hour? 31 I affirm, by the
  boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our
  Lord, I die daily. 32 If, in the manner of men,
  I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what
  advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise,
  Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• (John 161-3 NKJV) These things I have spoken
  to you, that you should not be made to stumble.
  2 They will put you out of the synagogues
  yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you
  will think that he offers God service. 3 And
  these things they will do to you because they
  have not known the Father nor Me.

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Are the writings of the apostles historically
  accurate?

73
The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Are the writings of the apostles historically
  accurate?

74
The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Was there agreement between the numerous
  witnesses?

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• (1 Cor 151-6 NKJV) Moreover, brethren, I
  declare to you the gospel which I preached to
  you, which also you received and in which you
  stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you
  hold fast that word which I preached to you
  unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered
  to you first of all that which I also received
  that Christ died for our sins according to the
  Scriptures,

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose
  again the third day according to the Scriptures,
  5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the
  twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five
  hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater
  part remain to the present, but some have fallen
  asleep.

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• If you reject the New Testament as being
  unhistorical, you must for consistency reject
  all of ancient history!

78
The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Most knowledgeable atheists recognize this point.

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The New Testament Passes the Test.

• Most knowledgeable atheists recognize this point.
• Their main objections lie in another areas.

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The Resurrection Scene

• (Mat 2757-66 NKJV) Now when evening had come,
  there came a rich man from Arimathea, named
  Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of
  Jesus. 58 This man went to Pilate and asked for
  the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body
  to be given to him. 59 When Joseph had taken
  the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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The Resurrection Scene

• 60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had
  hewn out of the rock and he rolled a large stone
  against the door of the tomb, and departed. 61
  And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary,
  sitting opposite the tomb. 62 On the next day,
  which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief
  priests and Pharisees gathered together to
  Pilate,

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The Resurrection Scene

• 63 saying, Sir, we remember, while He was
  still alive, how that deceiver said, After three
  days I will rise. 64 Therefore command that
  the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest
  His disciples come by night and steal Him away,
  and say to the people, He has risen from the
  dead. So the last deception will be worse than
  the first.

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The Resurrection Scene

• 65 Pilate said to them, You have a guard go
  your way, make it as secure as you know how.
  66 So they went and made the tomb secure,
  sealing the stone and setting the guard.

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The Resurrection Scene

• Jesus was Dead.

85
The Resurrection Scene

• Jesus was Dead.
• Hear the description of an eyewitness.

86
The Resurrection Scene

• (John 1932-36 NKJV) Then the soldiers came and
  broke the legs of the first and of the other who
  was crucified with Him. 33 But when they came
  to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they
  did not break His legs. 34 But one of the
  soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and
  immediately blood and water came out.

87
The Resurrection Scene

• 35 And he who has seen has testified, and his
  testimony is true and he knows that he is
  telling the truth, so that you may believe. 36
  For these things were done that the Scripture
  should be fulfilled, Not one of His bones shall
  be broken.

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The Resurrection Scene

• Medical authorities today indicate that blood
  and water was positive proof of death.

89
The Resurrection Scene

• The body was placed in a new tomb.

90
The Resurrection Scene

• (Mat 2760 NKJV) and laid it in his new tomb
  which he had hewn out of the rock and he rolled
  a large stone against the door of the tomb, and
  departed.

91
The Resurrection Scene

• There would be only one way in and one way out.

92
The Resurrection Scene

• A large stone covered the entrance.

93
The Resurrection Scene

• (Mat 2760 NKJV) and laid it in his new tomb
  which he had hewn out of the rock and he rolled
  a large stone against the door of the tomb, and
  departed.

94
The Resurrection Scene

• This boulder was to prevent any easy access to
  the body.

95
The Resurrection Scene

• A Roman seal was placed on the stone.

96
The Resurrection Scene

• (Mat 2766 NKJV) So they went and made the tomb
  secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.

97
The Resurrection Scene

• This signified that the full power and authority
  of Rome would stand against the one who broke the
  seal.

98
The Resurrection Scene

• A Roman Guard was placed at the tomb

99
The Resurrection Scene

• (Mat 2765-66 NKJV) Pilate said to them, You
  have a guard go your way, make it as secure as
  you know how. 66 So they went and made the
  tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the
  guard.

100
The Resurrection Scene

• The tomb was inspected carefully.

101
The Resurrection Scene

• (John 203-8 NKJV) Peter therefore went out, and
  the other disciple, and were going to the tomb.
  4 So they both ran together, and the other
  disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first.
  5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the
  linen cloths lying there yet he did not go in.
  6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and
  went into the tomb and he saw the linen cloths
  lying there,

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The Resurrection Scene

• 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His
  head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded
  together in a place by itself. 8 Then the other
  disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in
  also and he saw and believed.

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The Resurrection Scene

• (John 2011 NKJV) But Mary stood outside by the
  tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down
  and looked into the tomb.

104
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the Jews?

105
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Mat 2762-66 NKJV) On the next day, which
  followed the Day of Preparation, the chief
  priests and Pharisees gathered together to
  Pilate, 63 saying, Sir, we remember, while He
  was still alive, how that deceiver said, After
  three days I will rise.

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Who Moved the Stone?

• 64 Therefore command that the tomb be made
  secure until the third day, lest His disciples
  come by night and steal Him away, and say to the
  people, He has risen from the dead. So the last
  deception will be worse than the first. 65
  Pilate said to them, You have a guard go your
  way, make it as secure as you know how. 66 So
  they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the
  stone and setting the guard.

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Who Moved the Stone?

• The Jews were the very ones trying to prevent the
  resurrection.

108
Who Moved the Stone?

• The Jews were the very ones trying to prevent the
  resurrection.
• If so they had a perfect time to present the body
  50 days later!

109
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Acts 232 NKJV) This Jesus God has raised up,
  of which we are all witnesses.

110
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Acts 236 NKJV) Therefore let all the house of
  Israel know assuredly that God has made this
  Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.

111
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the Romans?

112
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the Romans?
• The Romans would not want to risk their necks for
  what they would consider as "silly Jewish
  superstition.

113
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the Romans?
• The Romans would not want to risk their necks for
  what they would consider as "silly Jewish
  superstition.
• The penalty for a Roman guard's failure was death.

114
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Acts 1626-27 NKJV) Suddenly there was a great
  earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison
  were shaken and immediately all the doors were
  opened and everyones chains were loosed. 27
  And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep
  and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the
  prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about
  to kill himself.

115
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Acts 2742 NKJV) And the soldiers plan was to
  kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim
  away and escape.

116
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the Disciples?

117
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the Disciples?
• This was the best explanation the smartest men
  among the Jews could come up with.

118
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Mat 2811-15 NKJV) Now while they were going,
  behold, some of the guard came into the city and
  reported to the chief priests all the things that
  had happened. 12 When they had assembled with
  the elders and consulted together, they gave a
  large sum of money to the soldiers, 13 saying,
  Tell them, His disciples came at night and
  stole Him away while we slept.

119
Who Moved the Stone?

• 14 And if this comes to the governors ears,
  we will appease him and make you secure. 15 So
  they took the money and did as they were
  instructed and this saying is commonly reported
  among the Jews until this day.

120
Who Moved the Stone?

• If they were asleep, how did they know it was the
  disciples?

121
Who Moved the Stone?

• If they were asleep, how did they know it was the
  disciples?
• Why did the Romans authorities not prosecute the
  apostles as grave robbers?

122
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the apostles give their lives for a lie?

123
Who Moved the Stone?

• Did the apostles give their lives for a lie?
• Their account is believable.

124
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Mark 169-14 NKJV) - Now when He rose early on
  the first day of the week, He appeared first to
  Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven
  demons. 10 She went and told those who had been
  with Him, as they mourned and wept. 11 And when
  they heard that He was alive and had been seen by
  her, they did not believe.

125
Who Moved the Stone?

• 12 After that, He appeared in another form to two
  of them as they walked and went into the country.
  13 And they went and told it to the rest, but
  they did not believe them either. 14 Later He
  appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table
  and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of
  heart, because they did not believe those who had
  seen Him after He had risen.

126
Who Moved the Stone?

• Who then moved the stone?

127
Who Moved the Stone?

• (Acts 1327-31 NKJV) For those who dwell in
  Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not
  know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets
  which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them
  in condemning Him. 28 And though they found no
  cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He
  should be put to death.

128
Who Moved the Stone?

• 29 Now when they had fulfilled all that was
  written concerning Him, they took Him down from
  the tree and laid Him in a tomb. 30 But God
  raised Him from the dead. 31 He was seen for
  many days by those who came up with Him from
  Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to
  the people.

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Modern Day Attempts to Deny the Resurrection

• The Swoon Theory.

130
Modern Day Attempts to Deny the Resurrection

• The Swoon Theory.
• The enemies were closely watching the cross.

131
Modern Day Attempts to Deny the Resurrection

• The Swoon Theory.
• The enemies were closely watching the cross.

132
Modern Day Attempts to Deny the Resurrection

• (Mark 1531-32 NKJV) Likewise the chief priests
  also, mocking among themselves with the scribes,
  said, He saved others Himself He cannot save.
  32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, descend
  now from the cross, that we may see and believe.
  Even those who were crucified with Him reviled
  Him.

133
Modern Day Attempts to Deny the Resurrection

• (Mark 1544-45 NKJV) Pilate marveled that He was
  already dead and summoning the centurion, he
  asked him if He had been dead for some time. 45
  So when he found out from the centurion, he
  granted the body to Joseph.

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• The burial process itself would have killed Jesus.

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• (John 1939-40 NKJV) And Nicodemus, who at first
  came to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a
  mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred
  pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus,
  and bound it in strips of linen with the spices,
  as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

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• How could Jesus have done this?

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• (Luke 2413-15 NKJV) Now behold, two of them
  were traveling that same day to a village called
  Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem.
  14 And they talked together of all these things
  which had happened. 15 So it was, while they
  conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew
  near and went with them.

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• (Luke 2432 NKJV) And they said to one another,
  Did not our heart burn within us while He talked
  with us on the road, and while He opened the
  Scriptures to us?

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Jesus is the Son of God.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• (Rom 13-4 NKJV) concerning His Son Jesus Christ
  our Lord, who was born of the seed of David
  according to the flesh, 4 and declared to be
  the Son of God with power according to the Spirit
  of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Our resurrection is certain.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• (1 Cor 614 NKJV) And God both raised up the
  Lord and will also raise us up by His power.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• (2 Cor 413-14 NKJV) And since we have the same
  spirit of faith, according to what is written, I
  believed and therefore I spoke, we also believe
  and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who
  raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up
  with Jesus, and will present us with you.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• (Acts 1730-31 NKJV) Truly, these times of
  ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all
  men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has
  appointed a day on which He will judge the world
  in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained.
  He has given assurance of this to all by raising
  Him from the dead.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• We are compelled to obey the gospel of Christ.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• (1 Pet 321 NKJV) There is also an antitype
  which now saves us baptism (not the removal of
  the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
  conscience toward God), through the resurrection
  of Jesus Christ,

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• (2 Th 17-10 NKJV) and to give you who are
  troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is
  revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8
  in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do
  not know God, and on those who do not obey the
  gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall
  be punished with everlasting destruction from the
  presence of the Lord and from the glory of His
  power,

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• 10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified
  in His saints and to be admired among all those
  who believe, because our testimony among you was
  believed.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Do you believe that Jesus Christ was raised from
  the dead?

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Do you believe that Jesus Christ was raised from
  the dead?
• Are you living the Christian life? Are you ready
  for judgment?

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Dying words of atheists.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Ingersoll "0 God, if there be a God, save my
  soul, if I have a soul, from hell, if there be a
  hell.

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• Voltaire "I am abandoned by God and man I will
  give you half of what I am worth, if you will
  give me six month's life," to the doctor treating
  him. When told it could not be done, he
  continued, "Then I shall die and go to hell.

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The Significance of the Resurrection.

• Sir Thomas Scott "Until this moment I thought
  there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know
  and feel there are both, and I am doomed to
  perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty."