Easter // Week 2 - “Hope Is Found In the Empty Tomb”

The “EMPTY TOMB” gives us HOPE!
• Peter called it a “

” HOPE (I Pet. 1:3 – NIV).
- This HOPE is a

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HOPE (I Pet. 1:4 – NIV)
- .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, ⁴ and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,

I. THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS IS THE GAME-CHANGER.

*The resurrection IS

(I Cor. 15:13 – NIV). ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
*The Apostle Paul was very clear what gave him his HOPE (I Cor. 15:3-7 – NIV). ³ For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas,[b] and then to the Twelve. ⁶ After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. ⁷ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles
• “FIRST IMPORTANCE”

II. 4 REASONS WHY THE RESURRECTION IS A GAME-CHANGER.

1) The RESURRECTION is a game-changer because it proves Jesus’ words to be

.
• Jesus told His Disciples on (

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) separate occasions he would rise from the dead.
- Mt. 20:17-19; Mk. 8:31-32 – NLT; Jn. 2:19 - NIV.
• The religious leaders even remembered Jesus saying He would rise from the dead (Matt. 27:62-63 – NIV).
• The resurrection is the reason WHY the Disciples

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suffering.
- I Cor. 15:29-32; Phps. 3:7-8 – NIV.

2) The RESURRECTION is a game-changer because it is the

of the gospel.
• The Resurrection is the

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that ignites the Christian’s message to the world.
- What was at the

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of Peter’s message on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:32 - NIV)?
- What continued to be the Apostles fuel throughout their preaching – (4:2 – NIV & 4:33 - NLT)?

3) The RESURRECTION is also a game-changer because it means I have

of my sins.
• Before the resurrection, we were all “up a creek without a paddle” (I Cor. 15:17 – NLT). ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.
• After the Resurrection, GOD declared His satisfaction and approval of the

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Christ made for ALL of us (Col. 2:13-14 - NLT). ¹³ You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. ¹⁴ He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.

4) And finally, the RESURRECTION is a game-changer because it means that death is

.

• The resurrection gives us

(I Cor. 15:54b-55 - NIV)! ⁵⁴…“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
• Hear the words of the EMPTY TOMB…HE

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!