Series: The Importance of... The Importance Of Easter

Series: The Importance of...The Importance Of Easter

The Importance Of EasterJohn 3:13-16(NKJV) 13No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

The Importance Of Easter

Plan for redemption

The Importance Of EasterPlan for redemption

Infirmity of sin in our livesIsaiah 64:6(KJV) 6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Romans 3:23(KJV) 23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

The Importance Of EasterPlan for redemptionInescapableness of sin’s penalty

Romans 6:23(KJV) 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Importance Of EasterPlan for redemptionInability to save self

The Importance Of EasterPlan for redemptionInsufficiency of our works and goodness to save usEphesians 2:8-10(KJV) 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

The Importance Of EasterPlan for redemptionImpartiality

Isaiah 53:6(NKJV) 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

The Importance Of EasterPlan for redemptionIllustration of God’s great love for each of us – vs 16

The Importance Of Easter

Promise of Resurrection

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

Initiates hope

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

Important at most

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

Impossible with manJohn 2:19-21(NKJV) 19Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” 21But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

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1 Corinthians 15:1-11(NKJV) 1Moreover, 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,

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

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, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 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.

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

9For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

Inescapable1 Corinthians 15:12-22(NKJV) 12Now 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? 13But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 14And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.

The Importance Of EasterPromise of Resurrection

15Yes, 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. 16For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

The Importance Of Easter20But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

The Importance Of Easter

Path to Righteousness

The Importance Of Easter

Path to Righteousness John 3:17-21(NKJV) 17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

The Importance Of Easter

Path to Righteousness 20For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

The Importance Of EasterPath to RighteousnessIn Christ (alone) – 17, 18

The Importance Of EasterPath to RighteousnessInterested in the Light – 19 - 21

The Importance Of EasterPath to RighteousnessInquire of Him

Luke 11:10(KJV) 10For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

The Importance Of EasterPath to RighteousnessIncorporate the Lord and His ways - 21

Isaiah 55:7(KJV) 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Hebrews 12:1(KJV) 1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

The Importance Of EasterPath to RighteousnessInfluenced by His love – 21a

The Importance Of EasterPath to RighteousnessIndentured to the Lord

The Importance Of Easter

Path of Rejection

The Importance Of EasterPath of RejectionInhospitable to God and His ways

The Importance Of EasterPath of RejectionInhospitable to God and His waysIniquity and evil ways

The Importance Of EasterPath of RejectionInhospitable to God and His waysIniquity and evil waysIndentured to sin and Satan and in their minds without hope

Romans 6:23(KJV) 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Importance Of EasterPath of RejectionInhospitable to God and His waysIniquity and evil waysIndentured to sin and Satan and in their minds without hope

Inherent nature (Adamic nature)

The Importance Of EasterPath of RejectionInherent nature (Adamic nature)

Romans 5:12(NKJV) 12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

The Importance Of Easter

Positive revelation or result of

Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection

The Importance Of EasterPositive revelation or result of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrectionIndividual salvation can be yours

The Importance Of EasterPositive revelation or result of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrectionIndividual salvation can be yours

Interim can be a great time as well

The Importance Of Easter

He (Jesus) is risen!

The Importance Of Easter

He (Jesus) is risen!

He is risen indeed!