April 20, 2014
Morning Service

Luke 24

 

            It is not enough just to say “we believe in the resurrection.”  However, there is not enough time in one Sunday morning message to elaborate, and discuss all about it.  We will touch on some prophecies this morning, and what Jesus said concerning His D.B.R.

            It was 45 years ago today, in 1969, that I started my walk with the Lord.  I died at an altar of prayer at Evangel tabernacle, in Louisville, Ky.  9 years later we started our work on Warren St.  This all happened because I had a need of a changed life, and I knew that Jesus could give it to me.

            In this greatest book ever written, it tells of one Jesus of Nazareth, that was born of a virgin, lived a perfect, sinless life, performed many miracles, and was a teacher of the things of God.  It is told in this story that envious, and jealous men condemned this man to death, and He was without sin.  It tells how they gave Him a mock trial, beat Him, and put Him to death on Golgotha’s hill, outside of Jerusalem.  It tells how that while being put to death, He prayed for His executioners.  When He died the soldier standing by said, “surely this was the Son of God.”

            But this was not the end.  They placed Him in a borrowed tomb that belonged to Joseph of Arimathea.  Jesus had told His disciples upon 3 different occasions that He was going to Jerusalem to be killed, but that He would rise again.  And He did!!

            While reading this wonderful story in the Bible, we hear Jesus say, “I have not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil the law.”  We find that the Old Testament tells of the coming Messiah, and we see in the N.T.  where Jesus fulfills all the prophecies that pertain to the Messiah.  Some of the prophecies that sets Christianity apart from other religions is the prophecy concerning His resurrection.  Yes, He fulfilled Isa. 53, the suffering servant.  He was our sacrificial lamb.  He was numbered with the transgressors.  However, He also fulfilled this prophecy concerning His resurrection.  Psa. 16.  Psa 16:10  For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 

Job in the O.T. said this;  Job 19:25-27  For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:  (26)  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:  (27)  Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.    Job didn’t have all the revelation as do we, but God inspired him enough to let him make this statement.

As we read the wonderful stories in the Bible, we see that Jesus fulfilled all the types, and shadows of the O.T. sacrifices, and law.  Then through the writings of the Apostle Paul, and the other N.T. writers we see what God wants us to know concerning the resurrection.

 

These are the places I want us to look at this morning, and only briefly, but you need to take time, and study prayerfully these passages.  This is why you get the notes.

1.       The resurrection is mentioned in all 4 of the gospels.   Matt. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; St.Jn. 20.

2.      The Apostle Paul who said that God gave him the revelations on what he taught;  The most conclusive explanation of the resurrection is given in ICor. 15. 

3.      The Apostle Paul again;  IThess. 4:13-18.

Remember, these scriptures build our faith that there will be a resurrection in the end times.  The church will be taken into Heaven, and those not belonging to the church will be cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death.

 

THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION, AND YOU NEED TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR IT.