An Easter sermon presented April 4, 2010, at Palm Desert Church of Christ by Dale Wells

1. He is Risen! Luke 24

22. Luke 24:1-6a On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

23. Luke 24:1-6a While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them,

24. Luke 24:1-6a "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!

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47. Resurrection Past, Present & Future

48. It Touches Our Past

49. It Touches Our Present

50. It Touches Our Future

51. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.” John 11:21-26

52. Jesus said to her, “Your brother shall rise again.” Martha said to Him, “I know that he will John 11:21-26

53. rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the John 11:21-26

54. life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies, and every-one who lives and believes in Me shall never die.” John 11:21-26

55. It Gives Us An Eternal Hope

56. 1 Peter 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a

57. 1 Peter 1:3-4 living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is

58. 1 Peter 1:3-4 imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.

59. But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffer-ed the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, Philp. 3:7-11

60. not having a righteousness of my own derived from law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Philp. 3:7-11

61. There Is No Hope Apart From It

62. 1 Cor. 15:12-19 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not

63. 1 Cor. 15:12-19 been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover, we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that He has raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised.

64. 1 Cor. 15:12-19 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

65. 1 Cor. 15:12-19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

66. We Are Raised Up By His Grace

67. Eph. 2:1-9