Three Easter B. Q.’s 1. Did Jesus really rise from the dead? 2.What’s at stake? 3.What real difference does it make?

Three EasterB. Q.’s

1. Did Jesus really rise

from the dead?

2.What’s at stake?

3.What real difference

does it make?

Easter B. Q. #1

Did Jesus REALLY rise from the dead?

Five Options

Five Options

Jesus Died

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus Rose ---

(1) Biblical

Christianity!

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus didn’t rise

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus didn’t rise

(2) the apostles

were deceived

Theory #1Theory #1

The Disciples The Disciples went to the went to the wrong tomb wrong tomb

(Oops Theory)(Oops Theory)

Theory #2Theory #2

The Hallucination TheoryThe Hallucination Theory

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus didn’t rise

(3) the apostles were myth makers

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Theory #3Theory #3

The Disciples were really The Disciples were really good myth-makers.good myth-makers.

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus didn’t rise

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus didn’t rise

(4) the apostles

were deceivers

Theory #4Theory #4

The Disciples stole the The Disciples stole the Body (the big conspiracy Body (the big conspiracy

theory!)theory!)

Matthew 28:11-1511While the women were on their way, some

of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything

that had happened. 12When the chief priests had met with the elders and

devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13telling them, “You

are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14If this report gets to the

governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15So the soldiers took

the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated

among the Jews to this very day.

Five Options

Jesus Died

Jesus didn’t rise

Five Options

Jesus didn’t Die

(5) He was resescitated by the cool of the tomb

Theory #5Theory #5

The Swoon TheoryThe Swoon Theory

The best The best possible possible Theory:Theory:

Jesus Jesus actually actually rose from rose from the dead!the dead!

Easter B. Q. #2

What’s at stake if Jesus

didn’t rise from the dead?

1 Corinthians 15:1-221Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

3For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins

according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to

the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6After that, he appeared to

more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all he

appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. 9For I am the least of the apostles and do not even

deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of

them yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

1 Corinthians 15:1-22 (cont’d)12But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say

that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not

even Christ has been raised. 14And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17And if Christ has not been raised,

your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have fallen asleep in

Christ are lost. 19If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all

men.

1 Corinthians 15:1-22 (cont’d)20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will

be made alive.

Easter B. Q. #3

What difference does it make if Jesus

really rose from the dead?

1. The resurrection of Jesus proves the ultimate truth that

Christianity is true!

2. The resurrection of Jesus proves Good Friday worked!

3. The resurrection of Jesus proclaims Christ is Victor over

Death

4. The resurrection of Jesus is a Guarantee of our life to come

5. The resurrection of Jesus proves that your sins are forgiven if you trust Him!

6. The resurrection of Jesus is the very source you have for

your life now in Jesus



Romans 6:1-231What shall we say, then? Shall we go on

sinning, so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new

life. 5If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united

with him in his resurrection.



Implications from this passage:



Implications from this passage:a. We were united with Jesus in his Death




b. As a result, sin has been completely atoned for in the wrath of God being poured upon Jesus.





c. We were united with Jesus in his Resurrection





c. We were united with Jesus in his Resurrection

d. As a result, we are given new life in Jesus Christ



Acts 5:18-2018They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. 19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. 20“Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people the full message of

this new life.”



2 Corinthians 5:16, 1716So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the

old has gone, the new has come!



1 John 5:11-1311And this is the testimony: God has given us

eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13I write these things to you who believe in the name of

the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.



Galatians 2:2020I have been crucified with Christ and I no

longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.



John 3:3636Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life,

for God’s wrath remains on him.”

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BELLINI, Giovanni Resurrection of Christ 1475-79 Oil on panel,Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The Lord is

Risen!

I am Risen

Indeed!

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Three Easter B. Q.’s 1. Did Jesus really rise from the dead? 2.What’s at stake? 3.What real difference does it make?