The Resurrection of Jesus Christ By Pastor Fee Soliven 1 Corinthians 15:16-22 Sunday Morning April 5, 2015 1 Corinthians 15:16-22 (New Century Translation) 16 If the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith has nothing to it; you are still guilty of your sins. 18 And those in Christ who have already died are lost. 19 If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world. 20 But Christ has truly been raised from the deadthe first one and proof that those who sleep in death will also be raised. 21 Death has come because of what one man did, but the rising from death also comes because of one man. 22 In Adam all of us die. In the same way, in Christ all of us will be made alive again. BIBLICAL HOLIDAYS SPRING FEASTSFALL FEASTS Passover (Nisan 15) Jesus Death Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15-22) Jesus Burial First Fruits (Nisan 17) Resurrection Pentecost (Sivan 6) Holy Spirit Trumpets (Tishri 1&2) Repentance Tabernacles (Tishri 15) Rejoicing Yom Kippur (Tishri 10) Redemption 50 Days Historically Fulfilled During Jesus First Coming The Church AgeTo Be Fulfilled By The Second Coming of Jesus (Second Advent) (First Advent) 1. Jesus Had To Die So We Can Have Eternal Life God had to give up His only Son to pay the ransom for our sins! John 3: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For 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. The Paul the Apostle and The Prophet Isaiah Clearly Described Jesus' Death, Burial and Resurrection Romans 8: Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Isaiah 53 1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 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. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they made His grave with the wicked--But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors. 2 Corinthians 5:21 "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." BIBLICAL HOLIDAYS SPRING FEASTSFALL FEASTS Passover (Nisan 15) Jesus Death Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15-22) Jesus Burial First Fruits (Nisan 17) Resurrection Pentecost (Sivan 6) Holy Spirit Trumpets (Tishri 1&2) Repentance Tabernacles (Tishri 15) Rejoicing Yom Kippur (Tishri 10) Redemption 50 Days Historically Fulfilled During Jesus First Coming The Church AgeTo Be Fulfilled By The Second Coming of Jesus (Second Advent) (First Advent) Jesus was crucified and was buried in the tomb. The Feast of Passover The Feast of First Fruits Jesus Rose Again on the third day! The Feast of Unleavened Bread Jesus is in the Tomb 2. The Power of His Resurrection! Philippians 3: Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Colossians 1:15 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation." Romans 8:29 "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." Revelation 1:5 "and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood" Romans 8:5-13 (New Century Translation) 5 Those who live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about the things the Spirit wants them to do. 6 If peoples thinking is controlled by the sinful self, there is death. But if their thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace. 7 When peoples thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey Gods law and really are not even able to obey Gods law. 8 Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God. 9 But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But the person who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. 10 Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God. 11 God raised Jesus from the dead, and if Gods Spirit is living in you, he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from the dead, and he will give life through his Spirit that lives in you. 12 So, my brothers and sisters, we must not be ruled by our sinful selves or live the way our sinful selves want. 13 If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirits help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life. 3. The Power of The Resurrection in the Believer! 1 Thessalonians 4: But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. Revelation 19:5-9 5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all you His servants and those who fear Him, both small and great!" 6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! 7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready." 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9 Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!' " And he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God." Matthew 22:1-14 (New Century Translation) 1 Jesus again used stories to teach them. He said, 2 The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding feast for his son. 3 The king invited some people to the feast. When the feast was ready, the king sent his servants to tell the people, but they refused to come. 4 Then the king sent other servants, saying, Tell those who have been invited that my feast is ready. I have killed my best bulls and calves for the dinner, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast. 5 But the people refused to listen to the servants and left to do other things. One went to work in his field, and another went to his business. 6 Some of the other people grabbed the servants, beat them, and killed them. 7 The king was furious and sent his army to kill the murderers and burn their city. 8 After that, the king said to his servants, The wedding feast is ready. I invited those people, but they were not worthy to come. 9 So go to the street corners and invite everyone you find to come to my feast. 10 So the servants went into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. 11 When the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man who was not dressed for a wedding. 12 The king said, Friend, how were you allowed to come in here? You are not dressed for a wedding. But the man said nothing. 13 So the king told some servants, Tie this mans hands and feet. Throw him out into the darkness, where people will cry and grind their teeth with pain. 14 Yes, many are invited, but only a few are chosen. Are You In Christ? Do You Have His Power To Be Raised From The Dead? Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Jude Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." For the Joy of the Lord is your Strength Nehemiah 8:10