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/Resurrection Questions/
Illustration: Professional golfer Paul Azinger was diagnosed with cancer at age 33.
He had just won a PGA championship and had 10 tournament victories to his credit.
He wrote, /"A genuine feeling of fear came over me.
I could die from cancer.
Then another reality hit me even harder.
I'm going to die eventually anyway, whether from cancer or something else.
It's just a question of when.
Everything I had accomplished in golf became meaningless to me.
All I wanted to do was live."/
Then he remembered something that Larry Moody, who teaches a Bible study on the tour, had said to him.
"/Zinger, we're not in the land of the living going to the land of the dying.
We're in the land of the dying trying to get to the land of the living."
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Jesus said, "What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own life?"
If it's really possible to live forever, there's no more relevant issue than the one we're dealing with this morning—if a man dies, shall he live again?
The Bible says, "If only in this life we have hope, then we are of all people to be pitied."
The more you live, the more you realize that life is coming to a dead end.
It is futile if there is not hope beyond the grave.
*1 Corinthians 15. 1-8 *
*Is there life after death?*
The answer is yes.
Jesus' resurrection proved it.
The Old Testament had predicted that the Messiah was going to die.
Jesus' death was not an accidental death.
It was the deliberate death of a person who offered his life as a sacrifice.
God laid all of our sins upon him; he became our substitute on the cross.
A woman wrote J. Vernon McGee: "Our preacher said that on Easter, Jesus just became unconscious on the cross and that the disciples nursed him back to health.
What do you think?" McGee replied, "Dear Sister, whip your preacher 39 times.
Nail him to a cross.
Hang him in the sun for six hours.
Run a spear through his heart.
Embalm him.
Put him in an airless tomb for three days.
Then see what happens."
Jesus Christ died and was buried.
He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.
He was then laid in a borrowed tomb.
Illustration: A little boy had brought his friend to church one Easter Sunday and they were watching a video of the crucifixion and resurrection.
The visiting little boy had this look of sadness when Jesus died.
The friend saw his discontent and said, “Don’t worry he’s dead but he’ll be back!”
*1 Corinthians 15.12-19*
Jesus Christ demonstrated that there is life after death.
In verse 12, Paul seems perplexed as to why people even asked the question.
"If it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?"
Now, we cannot prove that Jesus came back from the grave.
We can't put our faith in a test tube or show a video to provide evidence.
If only there would have been cell phones!
It would have been on You Tube!
BUT… We have the eyewitness testimony in Scripture.
We have the testimony of millions of people whose lives have been changed by Christ over the centuries.
We have the calendar and the church.
We have the Holy Spirit convicting us in our hearts today that he's alive.
So you have the option to examine the evidence and believe it or to disbelieve it.
/I love the life of //Winston Churchill.
Churchill arranged his own funeral.
There were stately hymns in St. Paul's Cathedral and an impressive liturgy.
But at the end of the service, Churchill had an unusual event planned.
When they said the benediction, a bugler high in the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral on one side played Taps, the universal signal that the day is over.
There was a long pause.
Then a bugler on the other side played Reveille, the military call.
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/This was Churchill's way of communicating that while we say "Good night" down here, it's "Good morning" up there.
Now why would he do that?
Because he believed in Jesus Christ, who said, "I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live."
When a man steps out of his own grave, he is anything that he says that he is, and he can do anything that he says he can do.
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*What is life after death like?*
*1 Corinthians 15.20*
Paul teaches that Jesus demonstrated what life after death was like.
First fruit means an example of that which is to come.
In other words, if you want to know what it's like to die and live again, look at Jesus' experience.
First, there was a separation from the body.
Just before Jesus died, he said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."
Jesus' body was buried in a tomb, but his spirit went to be with the Father.
He said to the thief on the cross, "This day you're going to be with me in paradise."
When we die, our spirits go immediately to be with God while our body goes to the grave.
The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:8, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord."
ILLUSTRATION: Hand (Spirit) Glove (body) When the spirit departs, the body is put aside like a lifeless glove.
We don't return to a number of other bodies like reincarnation teaches, and we don't go to a place where we're purged of our sin for years.
We go directly to be with God when we die.
There's a departure of the spirit from the body, then there is a resurrection of the body.
After three days, Jesus returned to the tomb to the same body.
He left the grave clothes behind.
He showed them the scars in his hands and feet.
In John 5:28, Jesus said, "Now don't be amazed at this.
But the time is coming when all that are in the grave will hear his voice and come out."
If God has the power to make matter out of energy, and to make Adam out of the dust of the ground, then he has the power to recreate our decomposed bodies.
The Bible says, "Nothing is impossible with God."
When Jesus suggested that he was going to open up the tomb of Lazarus, Lazarus's sister Martha objected.
"Oh no.
He's been dead four days.
There's already a bad odor.
His body's already beginning to decompose."
Jesus said, "Martha, you're going to see the glory of God."
He rolled the stone away, and he called out, "Lazarus, come forth."
And this man who had been dead for four days came out of the grave.
It doesn't matter if you've been dead four days or four centuries or four millennia.
When Christ commands it, there will be a resurrection of the body.
Thessalonians 4:16 says the Lord will come down from heaven with the spirits of those who have fallen asleep, there will be a loud command, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Now some skeptic may say, "Aw, that's too fanciful to believe."
Let me ask you a question: If you didn't know about conception and had never seen a birth, and I tried to describe it to you, would you believe it?
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