Easter 2022
April 17, 2022

From Death to Life

Matthew 28:1-7 (NLT)

Easter Sunday 2022 | Mick Veach | Lead Pastor | first aired on 04.17.2022

I. Introduction

Read Scripture
28 Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.

2 Suddenly there was a great earthquake! For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven, rolled aside the stone, and sat on it. 3 His face shone like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. 4 The guards shook with fear when they saw him, and they fell into a dead faint.

5 Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying. 7 And now, go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there. Remember what I have told you.” —Matthew 28:1-7

A. The birth of a baby changes everything—life is the most amazing
B. For most of the world, celebrating a new life is the greatest and brings us all together
C. Unfortunately, we are all born into a broken world
D. There is one thing that we all can agree on

  1. The world is struggling
  2. The debate is where this all stems from

a. Broken structures in our society
b. Our broken heart

E. Resurrection Sunday is the game changer it moves us from death to life

F. Question—what is the big deal about Jesus and his resurrection?

  • It moves us from death to LIFE

II. Choosing to Move from Death to Life

A.

Reveal Answer
Emotionally and Physically to
Reveal Answer
Emotionally and Physically

  1. John 5:1-7 — Jesus heals a man at the pool of Bethesda
  2. Mark 5:35-43 — Jairus a religious leader is facing death
  3. John 11:1-44 — Lazarus died before Jesus arrived he had been dead for 4 days.

  4. What are you facing today?

    a. Emotional Healing is possible
    b. Physical Healing is possible
    c. Once we are ALIVE, healthy relationships are possible

  5. Our response must be the same as the above

    a. Pick up your matt
    b. Get desperate enough
    c. Believe and have Faith

Key Point—Death has no victory over anyone who engages Jesus

B.

Reveal Answer
Spiritually to
Reveal Answer
Spiritually

  1. What does it mean to be dead spiritually?

    a. Not to believe in the spiritual realm
    b. To believe in Naturalism
    c. Or to be in Nihilism which means

    1. all values are baseless
    2. life has no meaning
    3. nothing can be known
    4. Extreme pessimism
    5. Radical skepticism

  2. Lee Strobel who converted from atheism said:
    “I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn’t have that much faith.”
    —Lee Strobel

  3. Dead spiritually becomes all about:

    a. Self-focused
    b. Even the good that is done is for the motive of what I get out of it

  4. Acts 9:1-18—Saul was dead spiritually in his religious zeal

  5. Matthew 25:31-46—Final judgment

    a. Many will find out on the final day that they never knew Jesus
    b. They knew religion and systems but not Jesus
    c. Jesus said broad is the road that leads to destruction and many enter into it and narrow is the road that leads to eternal life and few find it

  6. Romans 1—It is a warning not to deny Jesus too long

    • You will be given over to the hardness of your heart and will never care again about eternal life

Key Point—Choosing Jesus brings Life and Eternity

C. Death is

Reveal Answer
Reveal Answer
into Eternal Life


  1. Matthew 28:1-7—Jesus rose from the dead and was the greatest single event in the history of the world
  2. Death was defeated at this moment
  3. John 1:12—To everyone is receives Him, He gives eternal life
  4. Matthew 18:12-14 — The Shepherd goes after the one lost one
  5. Eternal Life

    a. Confess/Repent—Acts 3:19
    b. Believe/Receive –John 3:16


Key Point—Eternal Life awaits anyone who desires it

III. Call to Action:

A. Choose Life in Jesus

B. Recommit to serve Jesus each day of your life

C. Study the Resurrection of Jesus in Scripture

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