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Opening
Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world.
Because of that event, history was split.
Every time you write a date on your letters, your cheques or any document, you’re using the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the reckoning date.
What is the significance of Easter?
It is highly important because it proves that Jesus is who He said He is.
He was God in the form of flesh who came to seek and save the lost.
There were three (3) dramatic series of events on that Easter Weekend.
His Trial
His Death
His Resurrection
The Trial
Jesus actually went through six trials.
In that one night, he was brought before Annas, Caiaphas (the high priest), the Sanhedrin (the religious Supreme Court), Pilate (the governor of Jerusalem), Herod (the governor of Galilee), and then back to Pilate.
At the end of those six trials, what did they find to accuse him of?
Nothing.
He had done nothing wrong.
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They want Him dead for the sole reason of not accepting Him to be the Son of God as He rightfully claimed.
To everyone whom Jesus is presented already made some kind of decision as to who He was.
They either believe that He’s a liar or a lunatic, or they believed that He is the Lord.
The Death
His death was foretold
Isaiah
After a night of beatings and mocking.
After being spat on, slapped, vilified & struck repeatedly, they crowned Him with thorns.
Early the next morning, they made Him carry His cross to a hill outside of Jerusalem called “Golgotha”.
It was seamlessly unending agony and pain while they drag Him with whip and kick.
It was 9 in the morning when they crucified Him.
Above His head they placed a notice that read: “The King of the Jews”.
Crucifixion perhaps is the most torturous & brutal way of death ever devised by men.
His arms was spread apart, while His hands was stretched out wide against the cross and nailed through the bones in each of His wrist.
Before nailing His feet to the cross, they bent His knees a little to give Him room to slide up and down as He grasp for His every stroke of breath.
Death on the cross is like death by suffocation.
You can breath in, but it is super difficult to breath out.
After 6 long hours of excruciating pain, Jesus said, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?”,
( which means, My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?) and then He breathed His last.
Normally, they would break his legs, but since Jesus is dead, they opted not to, but to make sure, they stuck a spear in His side and water gushed out instead of blood, which, doctors say, only happens if the heart rips.
You can call it what you want, but Jesus died of a broken heart.
Why Jesus have to die?
Because He alone was able to pay for our sins.
We deserved punishment, but Jesus paid he penalty
The Resurrection
His resurrection was foreshadowed in the OT
In Jonah:
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Jesus Christ’s resurrection was predicted
In the OT
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By Jesus Christ himself
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Jesus Christ’s resurrection was anticipated by the raising of the dead
In the OT
None of the OT or NT miracles are true resurrections.
Those raised resumed life as before, their bodies unchanged.
Resurrection for Jesus Christ and therefore for his people means a changed body and permanent life in glory.
This is the “better resurrection”.
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In the miracles of Jesus Christ
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After Jesus died, they took His body and laid it in a tomb and a giant stone was set in front of the cave.
The religious leaders, worried that the body of Jesus will be stolen, asked for Roman guards to be posted in front of the tomb.
They don’t want Him out of there, but of course He did get out and appeared to many people.
It was preceded by suffering and death
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It took place on the first day of the week
The disciples were reluctant to believe it
The risen Christ appeared to many people
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The disciples were reluctant to believe it
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The disciples saw the evidence and were ultimately convinced
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The risen Christ appeared to many people
To the disciples:
To Mary Magdalene:
To two on the Emmaus road
To Peter:
To Paul:
To over 500 people
The resurrection was followed by Jesus Christ’s entry into glory
To James
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Responses to His Resurrection and Appearance
Jesus Christ’s resurrection body was spiritual but not ghostly
Fear & Alarm
Doubt & Disbelief
Belief and Joy
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What does this means to us today?
In one sense, Jesus is still on trial today.
He’s on trial in the hearts of those who have not yet acknowledged Him as the Son of God.
Savior of the World.
If you managed to follow our 5-day reading plan over the course of our recent 5-day Prayer & Fasting, you will see that people continue to seek for proof that everything that was told about Jesus was actually true.
- Back in 1961, archeologists led by Dr. Antonio Frova found evidences to support the claim of the Bible that there was really a “Pontius Pilate” who lived, governed and tried Jesus.
They found from what they believed to be a “Roman Theater” a limestone block with his name in-scripted on its face.
- In December of 1990, a new park was being built in Jerusalem when construction workers stumbled into an ossuary, in other words “bone box”.
Archeologist Zvi Greenhut investigated the box and found ornate design on the outer side of the box with the name “Caiaphas”, the high priest during Jesus’ time.
- And yet in 1956-1957, another discovery was made when they found the gate of the cave of Gethsemane.
The place believed to be where Jesus prayed before He was arrested.
- In 1968, remains of a young man believed to be in his twenties was found in a tomb inside a bone box.
They claimed that he was crucified because, amazingly, a 5-inch nail was still attached to his heel.
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