04 April 5, 2015, Luke 24;1-12, Easter, The Declaration

Luke 24:1-12
The Declaration - He Is Risen!
April 5, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

What’s the number one thing?

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The Glory of God!

1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink,
or whatever you do, do all to the glory
of God.

April MemoryVerse:
I Peter 1:3
3 Praise be to the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great
mercy He has given us new birth into
a living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Friday, April 17, 2015 | 6:30 pm |
Fellowship Hall East
• Dr. Jason Lisle: Creation vs Evolution vs ID,
Apologetics, Cosmology,The Big Bang,
Astro Physics, Astronomy
• Mark Cahill: Apologetic Evangelism, Do
Something, BiblicalTruth
• JayWatts: LifeTraining Institute,The Case
for Life, BiblicalWorldviews

Saturday: April 18, 2015 | 9:00 am - 2:00 pm |
Fellowship Hall East
• JayWatts: “Back to the Cross, Apologetics in
Service to the Gospel”
• Mark Cahill: Apologetic EvangelismTraining
(2hrs) (Breakout Session)
• Dr. Jason Lisle: How the Heavens Declare God’s
Glory (Breakout Session)
• JayWatts: “The Case for Life” (Breakout Session)

Saturday Lunch | 12:15 pm | Cost $10 (Purchase by
April 12)
• Dr. Jason Lisle: “Ultimate Proof of Creation”
• Mark Cahill: “No Excuses”
Sunday, April 19, 2015
• 9:00 & 10:30 am Sunday School Sunday
• School Option: Fellowship Hall East: Dr. Jason
Lisle: “Why Genesis Matters”

Sunday, April 19, 2015
• 9:00 & 10:30 am Worship Services – Sanctuary
• Apologetic Message – Mark Cahill: “One
Heartbeat Away”
Evening Service – Sanctuary
• 5:00 pm Dr. Jason Lisle: “DiscerningTruth:
Exposing Errors in Evolutionary Arguments”
• 6:15 pm Mark Cahill: “OneThingYou Can’t Do in
Heaven”

Secret Church Simulcast
Friday, April 24, 2015, 6:00 - 11:59 PM
Contact: HalWarren
Taught by Dr. David Platt,
President of the I.M.B.
Books may be purchased for $10 in
the Missions office starting April 12.

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We have three challenges that the
Education
Department has
placed before
us in 2015:

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1.) Memorize the monthly memory
verses and
know each
month we
are hiding
God’sWord
in our heart.

January verse: Romans 10:9
February verse: Ephesians 2:8-9
March verse: Romans 3:23
April verse: I Peter 1:3

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2.) Share your faith with one person
each month and build a relationship
with them, so they will not only
become a
disciple – but a
disciple maker
themselves.

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3). Ask two Sunday School class
members to share how they have
seen God at work during the week.

Next Sunday:
Luke 24:13-35
The Promise Fulfilled
April 12, 2015

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The priest examined the lamb for
imperfections, not the man who
brought the
lamb to
serve as the
substitute
for his sins.

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Except through Me – John 14:6

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What are the only three things that
are presently on this earth that are
going to Heaven?
1) ___ __ _____ ___
2) ____ ______
3) ____ __ ____ ___

What are the only three things that are
presently on this earth that are going to
Heaven?
1) All of _____ ____. Isa 40:8, 1 Peter 1
2) Some ______. 1 John 5:11-13
3) Some of ____ _____. 1 Cor 3:11-15

Heaven?
1) All of God’sWord. Isa 40:8, 1 Peter 1
2) Some ______. 1 John 5:11-13
3) Some of ____ _____. 1 Cor 3:11-15

Isaiah 40:8 NKJV
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.”
(also 1 Peter 1:23-25)

Heaven?
2) Some people. 1 John 5:11-13
3) Some of ____ _____. 1 Cor 3:11-15

1 John 5:11-13 NKJV
11 And this is the testimony: that God
has given us eternal life, and this life is
in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has
(eternal) life; he who does not have
the Son of God does not have life.

13aThese things I have written to you
who believe in the name of the Son of
God, that you may know (not hope
so, not maybe) that you have eternal
life,
1 John 5:11-13a NKJV

Heaven?
2) Some people. 1 John 5:11-13
3) Some of your works. 1 Cor 3:11-15

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 NKJV
11 For no other foundation can anyone
lay than that which is laid, which is
Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds
on this foundation with gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

13 each one’s work will become clear; for
the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire; and the fire will test each
one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s
work which he has built on it endures, he
will receive a reward.

15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer
loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as
through fire.
(You can lose your rewards but not your
salvation.)

Hebrews 11:6 NKJV
6 But without faith it is impossible to
please Him, for he who comes to God
must believe that He is, and that He is
a rewarder of those who diligently
seek Him.

Revelation 4:10 NKJV
10 the twenty-four elders fall down
before HimWho sits on the throne
and worship HimWho lives forever
and ever, and cast their crowns before
the throne,

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The greatest reward a person can ever
have is the _________ __ ___.

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The greatest reward a person can ever
have is the presence of God.

Psalm 16:11 NKJV
11 You will show me the path of life;
InYour presence is fullness of joy;
AtYour right hand are pleasures
forevermore.

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Yesterday is the past,
Tomorrow is the future,
Today is a gift – that’s why we call it
The Present!

Isaiah 40:10 NKJV
10 Behold, the Lord GOD shall come
with a strong hand,
And His arm shall rule for Him;
Behold, His reward is with Him,
And His work before Him.

12And behold, I am coming quickly,
and My reward is with Me, to give to
every one according to his work.

Ephesians 2:10 NKJV
10 For we are His workmanship
(poem), created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God prepared
beforehand that we should walk in
them.

Luke 24:1-12 NKJV
The Declaration - He Is Risen!

Luke 24:1-12 NKJV
He Is Risen
1 Now on the first day of the week, very
early in the morning, they, and certain
other women with them, came to the
tomb bringing the spices which they had
prepared.

2 But they found the stone rolled away
from the tomb. 3Then they went in
and did not find the body of the Lord
Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were
greatly perplexed about this, that
behold, two men stood by them in
shining garments.

5Then, as they were afraid and bowed
their faces to the earth, they said to
them, “Why do you seek the living
among the dead? 6 He is not here, but
is risen! Remember how He spoke to
you when He was still in Galilee,

7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be
delivered into the hands of sinful men,
and be crucified, and the third day rise
again.’” 8 And they remembered His
words.

9Then they returned from the tomb
and told all these things to the eleven
and to all the rest. 10 It was Mary
Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother
of James, and the other women with
them, who told these things to the
apostles.

11 And their words seemed to them like
idle tales, and they did not believe them.
12 But Peter arose and ran to the tomb;
and stooping down, he saw the linen
cloths lying by themselves; and he
departed, marveling to himself at what
had happened.
Luke 24:1-12 NKJV

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In 1 Corinthians chapter 15, Paul
gives the most extensive treatment of
the resurrection in all of Scripture.

1 Corinthians 15:3b-9 NKJV
The Risen Christ
3b that Christ died for our sins according to
the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried,
and that He rose again the third day
according to the Scriptures,

5 and that He was seen by Cephas (Peter),
then by the twelve.6 After that He was
seen by over five hundred brethren at
once, of whom the greater part remain to
the present, but some have fallen asleep.
7 After that He was seen by James, then by
all the apostles.

8Then last of all He was seen by me also,
as by one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who
am not worthy to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
1 Corinthians 15:3b-9 NKJV

COMMENTARIES CONSULTED:
• J.Vernon McGee'sThruThe Bible
• Wiersbe Expository Outlines
• Ray Stedman

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John MacArthur, Jr.
(Born June 19, 1939)

Just as the heart pumps life-giving
blood to every part of the body, so the
truth of the
resurrection gives life
to every other area of
Gospel truth.

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The resurrection is the pivot on which
all of Christianity turns and without
which none of the other truths would
much matter.

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Without the resurrection, Christianity
would just be wishful thinking, taking
its place alongside
all other human
philosophy and
religious
speculation.

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The first two sermons preached after
Pentecost both focused on the
resurrection of
Christ
(Acts 2:14-36;
3:12-26).

Because of that truth, the heart-
broken followers of the crucified
Rabbi were turned into the
courageous witnesses and martyrs
who, in a few years, spread the Gospel
across the Roman Empire and turned
the world upside down.

Acts 17:6 NKJV
6 But when they did not find them
(Paul and Silas), they dragged Jason
and some brethren to the rulers of the
city, crying out, “These who have
turned the world upside down have
come here too.

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No fear or dread in this life can
quench the
hope and
joy of an
assured
life to come.

True NewTestament Christianity is a
religion of the resurrection.
"Our Savior's resurrection is truly of great
importance in Christianity, so great that
His being or not being the Messiah stands
or falls with it.", said John Locke.

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Because it is the cornerstone of the
Gospel, the resurrection has been the
target of Satan's
greatest attacks
against the church.

If the resurrection is eliminated, the
life-giving power of the Gospel is
eliminated, the deity of Christ is
eliminated, salvation from sin is
eliminated, and eternal life is
eliminated.

"If we have hoped in Christ in this life
only, we are of all men most to be
pitied" (1 Corinthians 15:19).
If Christ did not live past the grave,
those who trust in Him surely cannot
hope to do so.

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Without the resurrection, salvation
could not have been provided, and
without belief in the resurrection
salvation cannot
be received.

"If you confess with your mouth Jesus
as Lord, and believe in your heart that
God raised Him from the dead, you
will be saved" (Romans 10:9).
• It is not possible, therefore, to be a
Christian and not believe in the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The doctrinal problem on which
1 Corinthians chapter 15 focuses was
not the Corinthians' disbelief in
Christ's resurrection but confusion
about their own.

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Paul was not trying to convince them
that Christ rose from the dead but
that one day they, too, would be
raised with Him
to eternal life.

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To lay the foundation in the first
eleven verses, Paul reviews five
evidences for Jesus' resurrection.

The five evidences, Paul presents are:
1) the church (v1-2);
2) the Scriptures (v3-4);
3) the eyewitnesses (v5-7);
4) a special witness, the apostle
himself (8-10); and
5) the common message (v11).

1 Corinthians 15:1-2
TheTestimony of the Church

The Risen Christ, Faith’s Reality
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you
the Gospel which I preached to you,
which also you received and in which
you stand,

2 by which also you are saved, if you
hold fast that word which I preached
to you—unless you believed in vain.

Because of the reality of Christ's
resurrection and of their trust in it,
they were now a part of His church
and thereby were evidence of the
power of that resurrection.
• Their lives had been transformed
because of the resurrection.

Obedience and continuous
faithfulness mark the redeemed.
The endurance and growth of the
church of Jesus Christ for over 2,000
years is evidence of His resurrection
reality.

His church and HisWord have
survived skepticism, persecution,
heresy, unfaithfulness, and
disobedience
because of our
belief in His
resurrection.

Critics have denounced the resurrection as
a hoax and fabrication, but have never
explained the power of such a fabrication
to produce men and women who gave up
everything, including their freedom and
lives when necessary, to love and to follow
a dead Lord!

His living church is evidence that
Christ Himself is alive; and He could
be alive only if He had been raised
from the dead.

He Lives
I serve a risen Savior
He’s in the world today.
I know that He is living,
Whatever men may say.
I see His hand of mercy;
I hear His voice of cheer;
And just the time I need Him
He’s always near.

He lives, He lives,
Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me
and talks with me
along life’s narrow way.
He lives, He lives,
salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know He lives?
He lives within my heart.
Composed in 1933 by Alfred Henry Ackley (1887-1960)

In the Garden
Written by a pharmacist,
C. Austin Miles (1868–1946)
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses,
And the voice I hear falling on my ear,
The Son of God discloses . . .

And He walks with me,
And He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry
there,
None other, has ever, known!

“A crucified Messiah would have been
no Messiah at all. He was One
rejected by Judaism and accursed of
God. It was the resurrection of Jesus,
as Paul declares in Romans 1:3-4,
which proclaimed Him to be the Son
of God with power” (Dutton, 1946).

Romans 1:3-4 NKJV
3 His Son Jesus Christ our Lord,Who
was born of the seed of David
according to the flesh,4 and declared
to be the Son of God with power
according to the Spirit of holiness, by
the resurrection from the dead.

Matthew 27:54 NKJV
54 So when the centurion and those with
him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the
earthquake and the things that had
happened, they feared greatly, saying,
“Truly this was the Son of God!”
(Also in Mark 15:39)

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A follower of Buddha writes of his
religious leader, "When Buddha died it
was with that utter
passing away in
which nothing
whatever remains."

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Mohammad died at Medina on June 8,
632, at the age of 61,
and his tomb there is
visited yearly by tens
of thousands of
Muslims.

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But they come to mourn his death,
not to celebrate his resurrection.

Franklin Graham said, “Mohammed is
dead and buried in Medina. Jesus
Christ is alive and He is sitting at the
right hand of God the Father in
Heaven. (Hebrews 1:3)Who do you
want to follow, the dead or the
living?”

The church of Jesus Christ, not just on
Easter Sunday but at every service of
immersion baptism, celebrates the
victory of her Lord over death and the
grave.

TheTestimony of Scripture

3 For I delivered to you first of all that
which I also received: that Christ died
for our sins according to the
Scriptures,

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4 and that He was buried, and that He
rose again the third day
according to the
Scriptures,

To the two disciples on the road to Emmaus,
Jesus said, "'O foolish men and slow of heart to
believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer
these things and to enter into His glory?' And
beginning with Moses and with all the
prophets, He explained to them the things
concerning Himself in all the Scriptures" (Luke
24:25-27).

Acts 10:43 says that all the prophets
testify about Him…

Acts 10:43 NKJV
43To Him all the prophets witness
that, through His name, whoever
believes in Him will receive remission
of sins.

When the unbelieving Jews asked for a
sign of Jesus' messiahship, He said:
Matthew 12:39-40 NKJV
39 “An evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign, and no sign will be
given to it except the sign of the prophet
Jonah.

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40 For as Jonah was three days and
three nights in the belly of the great
fish, so will the Son of Man be three
days and three
nights in the
heart of the
earth.

Jesus, Peter, and Paul all quoted or
referred to such OldTestament passages
as:
Gen 22:8, 14;
Psalm 16:8-11;
Psalm 22;
Isaiah 53; and
Hosea 6:2.

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The more time there is between the
prediction and when the event occurs,
the more amazing it is, the more
impressed we are.

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Psalm 22 was written by King David 1,000
years before it took place.
It was written
500 years before
the Romans had
perfected
crucifixion.

The Psalms were not numbered in
Jesus’ day so the way they referred to
a Psalm was by the first line of that
Psalm.
Psalm 23 =The Lord is my Shepherd

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Psalm 22:1 NKJV
1 My God, My God, why haveYou
forsaken Me?

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Psalm 22:14-18 NKJV
14 I am poured out like water,
And all My bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It has melted within Me.

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15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd (dry
piece of pottery),
And My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust of death.

16 For dogs have surrounded Me;
The congregation of the wicked has
enclosed Me.
They pierced My hands and My feet;
17 I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.

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18 They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.

Psalm 22 Six of the Fulfillments Gospels
v. 1 -- Christ spoke these words Matt. 27:46
v. 2 -- Alternate light and darkness; Matt. 27:45
v. 6-8 -- The reproach of the people; Matt. 27:39-44
v. 16 -- His hands and feet pierced; Matt. 27:35
v. 17 -- People staring at Him; Luke 23:35
v. 18 -- Gambling for His garments; John 19:23-24

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Over and over again, either directly or
indirectly, literally or in figures of speech,
the OldTestament foretold Jesus' death
(Psalm 22), burial (Psalm 16), and
resurrection (Isaiah 11).

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No Jew who believed and understood the
Scriptures should have been surprised that
the Messiah was ordained to die,
be buried, and
then resurrected.

Twice Paul repeats the phrase
according to the Scriptures, to
emphasize that this is no new thing,
and no contradiction of true Jewish
belief.

TheTestimony Of Eyewitnesses

5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by
the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by
over five hundred brethren at once, of
whom the greater part remain to the
present, but some have fallen asleep.
7 After that He was seen by James, then by
all the apostles.

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One of the requirements for apostleship
was having seen the resurrected Christ
(Acts 1:21-22).

Acts 1:21-22 NKJV
21 “Therefore, of these men who have
accompanied us all the time that the Lord
Jesus went in and out among us,
22 beginning from the baptism of John to
that day when He was taken up from us,
one of these must become a witness with
us of His resurrection.”

Psalm 109:8 NKJV
8 Let his (Judas) days be few,
And let another take his office.

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The first apostle to whom He
appeared was Cephas, that is, Peter.

We are not told why the Lord
appeared to Peter first or separately,
but it possibly was because of Peter's
great remorse over having denied his
Lord three times, and because his role
as a leader among the apostles (Acts
15).

In going to Peter first, Jesus emphasized
His grace.
• Peter had forsaken the Lord, but the
Lord had not forsaken him and Christ
did not appear to Peter because Peter
deserved to see Him most, but perhaps
because Peter needed to see Him most.

• Peter was the Lord's spokesman at
Pentecost and was crucially used in
the expansion of the church for
several years.
• As such he was the prime witness
to the resurrected Christ.

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Jesus next appeared to the eleven
disciples as they were
fearfully assembled on
Easter evening
(John 20:19;
Luke 24:36).

The apostles laid the foundation of
the church (Ephesians 2:20), which
from the beginning based its beliefs
and practices on their teaching (Acts
2:42).

Those men whom the Lord used to
establish His church on earth all saw Him
in His resurrected body (Acts 1:22).
They were capable, honest, and reliable
eyewitnesses to the most important event
of history.

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Jesus' AppearanceToThe Five Hundred

“After that He appeared to more than
five hundred brethren at one time.”
The quality of specific witnesses is
represented by the apostles, all of
whom were known by name and
could easily be questioned.

The quantity of witnesses is seen in the five
hundred brethren who all saw the risen Christ at
one time.
• Scripture gives no indication of who those
people were, or where Jesus appeared to
them, but they were surely well known in the
early church, and, like the eleven, would
often have been questioned about seeing the
risen Savior.

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James is the half-brother of the Lord,
the author of the letter of James and a
key leader in the Jerusalem church
(Acts 15:13-21).

James originally was a skeptic (as
were C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell).
Like his brothers he did not at first
believe that Jesus was the Messiah
(John 7:5).

John 7:5 NKJV
5 For even His brothers did not believe
in Him.

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But now this member of Jesus' own
household, this one who for several years
did not recognize Jesus as the Christ,
was a powerful and
convincing witness to
His resurrection.

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Perhaps, as with Paul, it was the
experience of seeing the resurrected
Christ that finally
brought James to
saving faith.

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In any case, the convincing testimony
of a family member and former
unbeliever was added to that of the
apostles and the five hundred.

"Over a period of forty days"
(Acts 1:3), between His resurrection
and ascension, Jesus appeared to all
the apostles on other occasions that
are not specified (see John 21:1-14).

The five evidences, Paul presents are:
1) the church (v1-2);
2) the Scriptures (v3-4);
3) the eyewitnesses (v5-7);
4) a special witness, the apostle Paul
himself (8-10); and
5) the common message (v11).

TheTestimony Of Paul

8Then last of all He was seen by me also,
as by one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who
am not worthy to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.

10 But by the grace of God I am what I
am, and His grace toward me was not
in vain; but I labored more abundantly
than they all, yet not I, but the grace
of God which was with me.

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The fourth major testimony of Christ's
resurrection was that of the apostle
Paul himself, a
special and unique
witness of the
risen Lord.

Paul was not among the original
apostles, all of whom had been
disciples of Jesus during His earthly
ministry.
• He was not among the five
hundred other believers who had
seen the resurrected Christ.

Rather, he had for many years been
an unbeliever and a chief persecutor
of the church.
He was, however, last of all allowed to
see the risen Christ.

The Lord's appearance to Paul not
only was post-resurrection but post-
ascension, making Paul's testimony
more unique still.
• It was not during the forty days in
which He appeared to all the others
but several years later.

All the others to whom Christ
appeared, except perhaps James,
were believers, whereas Paul (then
known as Saul) was a violent, hateful
unbeliever when the Lord manifested
Himself on the Damascus road (Acts
9:1-8).

There were also other appearances
(Acts 18:9-10; 23:11; 2 Cor 12:1-7).
• Jesus appeared to Paul as it were to
one untimely born (ektroma) which
ordinarily referred to a miscarriage,
or premature birth — a life unable
to sustain itself.

In Paul's figure, the term could
indicate hopelessness for life without
divine intervention, and convey the
idea that he was born without hope of
meeting Christ.

But the use of the term in the sense of
an ill-timed birth, too early or too late,
seems to fit Paul's thought best.
He came too late to have been one of
the twelve.

In carrying the idea of unformed, dead,
and useless, the term was also used as a
term of derision.
• Before his conversion, which coincided
with his vision of the resurrected Lord,
Paul was spiritually unformed, dead,
and useless, a person to be scorned by
God.

• Even when he was born it was
wrong timing.
• Christ was gone.
• How could he be an apostle?
• Yet, by special divine provision, He
appeared to me also, Paul testifies.

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Paul knew all of his sins were forgiven,
and he was not plagued by feelings of
guilt over what he had once done
against God's people.

But he could not forget that for which
he had been forgiven, and it
continually reminded him that by the
grace of God I am what I am.
• That he deserved God's forgiveness
so little was a constant reminder of
how graciously His grace is given.

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It is possible that Paul's memory of having
persecuted the church of God was a
powerful motivation for his being
determined that
His grace would
not prove vain.

As is clearly substantiated in the New
Testament, Paul was able to truthfully say,
I labored even more than all of them.
Yet he was not boasting in his own
spirituality or power but in God's, because,
as he hastened to add, yet not I, but the
grace of God with me.

The same grace responsible for his
calling was responsible for his
faithfulness.
God sovereignly appointed Paul an
apostle and sovereignly blessed his
apostolic ministry.

Paul believed, responded, obeyed,
and was continually sensitive to the
Lord's leading and will. But apart from
God's prevenient grace the apostle
knew that everything he did would
have been in vain and worthless
(Eph 4:15-16; Col 1:28-29; etc.).

The truth and power of the
resurrected Christ had brought three
great changes in Paul.
• First was deep recognition of sin.
• For the first time he realized how
far his external religious life was
from being internally godly.

He saw himself as he really was, an
enemy of God and a persecutor of His
church.
• Second, he experienced a
revolution of character.
• From a persecutor of the church he
became her greatest defender.

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His life was transformed from one
characterized by self-righteous hatred
to one characterized by self-giving
love.

He changed from oppressor to
servant, from imprisoner to deliverer,
from judge to friend, from a taker of
life to a giver of life.
Third, he experienced a dramatic
redirection of energy.

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As zealously as he had once opposed
God's redeemed he now served them.

1 Corinthians 15:11
TheTestimony OfThe Common Message

1 Corinthians 15:11 NKJV
11Therefore, whether it was I or they,
so we preach and so you believed.

The last testimony to Christ's
resurrection was that of the common
message that every true apostle,
prophet, and pastor preached.

Without exception, the preaching and
teaching in the early church centered
on the death, burial, and resurrection
of Christ - whether it was Peter, the
twelve, the five hundred, James, or
anyone else.

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Wherever Christ was preached and by
whomever He was preached, His
resurrection was
the pivotal
message that
was proclaimed.

There was no dispute about the truth
or the importance of the doctrine,
which hardly would have been the
case had it been a fabrication.

Except for a few isolated heresies, the
doctrine of Christ's resurrection has
not been questioned within the
church until our modern age of
skepticism and humanism.

NewTestament Christianity, whether
ancient or modern, knows nothing of
a gospel whose heart is not the risen
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Isaiah 49:16a NKJV
16a See, I have inscribed you on the palms
of My hands;

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to accept Jesus
as our Savior.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

If you have questions or would like to know more,
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at 601-
979-1900 or http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

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