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*Epic Jesus – His gospel saves!*
*A VERY SPECIAL SUNDAY Video Clip!  *Just like Eliana & Elysia I pray you’ll come back on Easter weekend.
Easter weekend is truly a very special Saturday night and Sunday morning!
WHY - because Jesus came back from the dead never to die again!
*Speaking of coming back from the dead let me introduce you to 55 year old Richard Paylor.  *
Richard is a 23 year veteran truck driver.
How many here have ever eaten something while driving?
Well, Richard has too.
On March 29 Richard was driving his tractor-trailer and decided to snack on an apple.
The only problem is that he begins to choke.
There’s no one there to help him.
Something tells me he should have pulled over immediately, but he did not.
Paylor says he then blacked out.
Witnesses say the truck swerved before crashing into a concrete barrier near Reading, PA.  *Now here’s what’s crazy*.
The impact dislodged the apple from Paylor's throat.[i]
Police recovered a chunk of apple on the dashboard.
Paylor was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
He told the Reading Eagle, /"I guess I have to thank the wall.”
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            Call me crazy, but he might be better off thanking God!
I was counting, were you?
Richard didn’t CHEAT death once, but twice.
Jesus however beat death once and for all, but not everyone believes that to be true!  *Turn in your Bibles to 1st Corinthians 15.*  *Do you need a Bible?  *Last week we focused on verse 58 where Paul gives three commands.
Be steadfast!
Be immovable!
Abound in the work of the Lord!  *And the reason why*?
Jesus is epic!
And what makes Jesus impressively great is that he /came back from the dead and you will too, but only if you do what Steve Perry sang so well, “Don’t Stop Believin’!”/
Paul is dealing with people right here WHO ARE ON THE VERGE OF not believing!
*Is that you today?*
What has thrown a wrench in your life that’s now tempting you NOT to believe that Jesus is EPIC!  *Or maybe it’s a person*.
Robert Lalonde was driving his car and he saw this license plate - BAA BAA.
He was clueless as to the meaning until he noticed it was attached to a black Jeep.
“/BAA BAA black jeep have you any wool.”/
*Go to 1st Corinthians 15:33.*
*(33 & 34)* What was their sin?
The sin of unbelief.
There were some “black sheep” teachers in Corinth who were teaching that Jesus was less than epic.
*Go now to the beginning of 1st Corinthians 15.*  *Let’s read verse 1.*
This verse is a preacher’s dream.
These Corinthians had forgotten Paul’s words which are actually the words of Jesus!
I don’t feel so bad now.
Some messages are forgettable.
But many are not.
Every preacher worth his salt realizes his purpose.
/I say what’s already been said.
I proclaim what’s already been proclaimed./
I am one giant post-it-note!
*Why do you use post-it-notes?*  It’s to leave a message, right?
No, you use post-it-notes to pull pranks on people.
What message are these people saying?
*(Post-it-note trucks)* I use post-it-notes to remind me to do something.
/Email John!
Call Tricia!
Get milk!
Go home!  /Paul wants to remind us of what Jesus said and did!
We call this the gospel!
*Go back to verse 1.  *This word “gospel” is this word - euaggelion (yoo·ang·*ghel*·ee·on) which means */“glad tidings or good news/*/!//”/[iii]  *I have good news for you*.
It’s supposed to be 85 today!
*I have good news for you*.
Our government is still functioning.
*I have good news for you*.
Charlie Sheen left Columbus.
*I have good news for you*.
The chair you are sitting on was tightened and cleaned “big time” this past week.
*I have good news for you*.
$443,833.22 has been pledged for our Five Smooth Stones emphasis.
We are going to defeat all five giants, but not without your help!
What’s amazing is that this $443,000+ represents only 82 commitments!
Hopefully some of you turned yours in today, but what we know is that 418 people give at Westerville Christian.
This means that 336 still have an opportunity to respond.
*Please turn in your card no later than next weekend.*
*I have good news for you.
*Well, actually Paul does.
Let’s read what Paul has already preached.*
Go back to chapter 1 and find verse 17.  (Read 17, 18, 30 – 1st Cor.
2: 1-2!*  *I have good news for you!*  Jesus was crucified for you and for me!  Let’s focus our attention on Jesus’ sacrificial death.
Ushers, would you go now and prepare for communion!
*Since we’re already in 1st Corinthians let’s read what Paul said in chapter 11 verse 23!  (Read 23-26)* Jesus died!  That’s not unusual.
153,000 people die every day![iv]
What makes Jesus’ death epic is that he died for you!
I won’t die for you and even if I could – it wouldn’t matter because I’m not sinless.
Jesus is the sinless Son of God!  Put your faith in him!
*Let’s pray!  (Communion here)*
            J.C.
Ryle said years ago, /“//The Lord’s Supper was intended to remind us, by the visible, tangible emblems of bread and wine, that the offering of Christ’s body and blood for us on the cross, is the only atonement for sin…”*[v]*/  *Tell me again what the word “gospel” means?
Good news*.
Honestly, Paul thinks it’s even better than that.
*Let’s read 1st Corinthians 15: 1-2a.
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Every state has a motto[vi].
Ohio’s state motto is “With God All Things Are Possible.”
Teri Matheson is a comedian and she suggested a few new state mottos.[vii]
For instance the state motto for *Alabama* is We Dare Defend our Rights.
She suggested this change:  At Least we're not Mississippi.
*Arizona**’s* motto is God Enriches.
Her suggestion:  But it’s a Dry Heat.
*Illinois*:  State Sovereignty, National Union*.
*Her change:  Please Don't Pronounce the "S" *Kentucky*:  "United we stand, divided we fall"  Her suggestion:  Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names.
*North Carolina*:  To be, rather than to seem.
Her suggestion:  Tobacco is a vegetable.
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