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*Easter Message – April 8, 2007 \\                   “I Will Come Back” \\                         Luke 24:36-49*
 
On December 7, 1988 … at 11:41 a.m.
local time … *{PP} *(of earthquake devastation) … a magnitude 6.9 earthquake shook northwestern Armenia (which borders Turkey).
It was followed four minutes later by a magnitude 5.8 aftershock.
In his book … /When Christ Comes/ … Max Lucado tells a beautiful story that came out of this tragedy … which I want to share this morning to teach about Easter … and the promised return of Christ.
He writes … “The Armenian earthquake needed only four minutes to flatten the nation and kill thirty thousand people.
*{PP}* (2nd earthquake picture).
Moments after the deadly tremor ceased … a father raced to an elementary school to save his son.
When he arrived … he saw that the building had been leveled.
Looking at the mass of stones and rubble … he remembered *a promise* he had made to his child … “No matter what happens … I’ll *always* be there for you.”
*{PP}* (Black screen)
Driven by his own promise … he found the area closest to his son’s room … and began to pull back the rocks.
… Other parents arrived and began sobbing for their children.
“/It’s too late/” … they told the man.
“/You know they are dead.
… You can’t help./”
Even a police officer encouraged him to give up.
But the father refused.
… For eight hours … then sixteen … then thirty-two … thirty-six hours he dug.
His hands were raw … and his energy gone … but he refused to quit.
Finally … after thirty-eight wrenching hours … he pulled back a boulder and … heard his son’s voice.
He called his boy’s name … “Arman!
Arman!”
And a voice answered him … “Dad … it’s me!” … Then the boy added these priceless words … “I told the other kids not to worry.
I told them if you were alive … you’d save me … and when you saved me … *they’d* be saved too.
Because you *promised* … ‘No matter what … I’ll *always* be there for you.’
” [PAUSE]
 
Do you know that God has made that same promise to us? … He says … no matter what happens … “*I will come back*.”
In John 14 Jesus said … *{PP}* (John 14:1-3) “Do not let your hearts be troubled.
… Trust in God … trust also in me.
In my Father’s house are many rooms … if it were not so … I would have told you.
*{PP}* (John 14:1-3) I am going there to prepare a place for *you*.
And *if* I go and prepare a place for you … I *will* *come back* … and take you to be with me … that you also may be where I am.”
Can we believe this promise?
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Do we *dare* believe this promise?
Maybe you … never have doubts.
Maybe you’re like that boy … who just knew … (even with the world crashing in around him) … that his father would come and rescue him.
… But I think most of us … myself included … experience times of doubt.
Is God really there?
… Will He *really* come back for us?
How can we *know* for sure?
… How can we know that Jesus will do what he said?
… That He will return … and set us free from the crushing rocks of pain … and death that crash in on us in this life … and take us to be with Him? … [PAUSE]
We know … because He’s already done it once.
[PAUSE]
And if Jesus *has* risen from the dead … then He has won the victory over death.
And if He has won the victory over death … then *we share* in that victory.
In Romans 6:5 … Paul says …  *{PP}* (Romans 6:5) “If we have been united with him like this in his death … we will *certainly* *also* be united with him in his resurrection.”
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You see … if we are included in His death … we will also be included in His resurrection.
… He conquered death.
When Jesus went down to the grave … he took down death itself.
Paul told the Thessalonians …  *{PP}* (1 Thessalonians 4:14) “We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.”
And to the church in Corinth he wrote …  *{PP}* (1 Corinthians 15:22-23) “For as in Adam all die … so in *Christ* all will be made *alive*.
… But each in his own turn … Christ, the firstfruits; … then, when *he comes* … those who belong to him.”
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Paul is saying that the resurrection of Jesus … is a preview of our *own resurrection*.
[PAUSE]
Because Jesus is alive … He will come back for us … and we will experience a resurrection like His. … *That’s* the promise.
But can we trust this promise?
… Is Jesus really alive today so that He can come back for us?
The entire hope of Christianity hinges on Jesus really being alive today.
Did Jesus *really* rise from the dead?
This is not only a good question.
It is *the* question.
Paul also wrote … *{PP}* (1 Corinthians 15:22-23) “If Christ has not been raised … your faith is futile … you are still in your sins.”
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Simply put … if Jesus *is* alive … His followers will join Him and be with Him forever … *but* … if Jesus is *not* alive … there is no hope in Christianity.
But why would you believe in something so remarkable as a person rising from the dead?
To explore the answer … let’s look at Luke chapter 24 … and why the original disciples believed in the resurrection.
Jesus had just appeared to two of His followers … on the road to Emmaus … and revealed Himself to them when He opened the scriptures to them … and broke bread and prayed with them.
So these followers come to Jerusalem to find the apostles and tell them what happened.
… We’ll pick up the story in Luke 24:36-49 which says … *{PP}* (Luke 24:36-49) “36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.
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38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
39 Look at my hands and my feet.
It is I myself!
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