Resurrection Sunday is important because Jesus' resurrection from the dead demonstrates that his death fully paid for sins. The Bible provides substantial evidence for Jesus' resurrection, including prophecies, his predictions of his death and resurrection, eyewitness accounts, and the emergence of the Christian church. Through faith in Christ's resurrection, believers are declared righteous and justified before God based on Christ's perfect righteousness being credited to them, not by works of the law.

2. Resurrection Sunday
Why it matters

3. Previously...

4. The Fall

5. Adam our
Representative
• Adam signed “a
declaration of
independence” for all of
mankind
• Adam’s sins imputed
(charged) to us
• Romans 5:12-19

6. We are dead in our Sins

7. ...but God

8. The Word became Flesh

9. The Cross
• Our sins imputed
(charged) to Christ
• Romans 5:8
• 2 Corinthians 5:21a

10. It is Finished
• Christ’s perfect obedience to the Law
• Satisfied the justice of God
• Exhausted the wrath of God
• Removed our sins from presence of God
• Redeemed us from the curse of God
• Reconciled us to God
Jerry Bridges “The Gospel for Real Life”

11. He was Buried

12. Is this the end of the
story?

13. Does it even matter?
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you
are still in your sins. – 1 Corinthians 15:17

14. On the Third Day
He Rose Again

15. What is the
Resurrection?
• Jesus was alive
• Jesus died for 3 days
• Jesus came back from the dead fully restored
and perfected
• Consistent with his crucified body
Mark Driscoll “Resurrection: God Saves”

16. Biblical Evidence
• Prophecy • 1 Corinthians 15 -
Resurrection activity
• Jesus own predictions Mk recorded
8:31, Mk 9:30-31, Mk
10:33-34 • Doubting Thomas
• Jesus died on the cross • Mary, James, Jude (his
family)worship him as God
• Buried in a well known and are counted as part of
the early church
tomb
• Jesus returned on the third • Paul
day
Mark Driscoll “Resurrection: God Saves”

17. Circumstantial Evidence
• Disciples transformed from • People worship Jesus as
cowards into martyrs God
• Remain loyal to Jesus as • Communion and Baptism
Messiah
• Women first witnesses
• Disciples lives and actions
argue against lying (nothing
to gain)
• Tomb not enshrined
• Christianity comes into
• Sabbath changes to Sunday existence
Mark Driscoll “Resurrection: God Saves”

18. Extra-Biblical
Historical Evidence
• Flavius Josephus (37-97 AD), court historian for Emperor
Vespasian
• Cornelius Tacitus (55-120 AD), "the greatest historian" of ancient
Rome
• Gaius Suetonius Tranquillas, chief secretary of Emperor Hadrian
(117-138 AD)
• Pliny the Younger, Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor
around 112 AD
• Emporer Hadrian (117-138 AD), in a letter to Minucius
Fundanus, the Asian proconsul

19. Our sins have been
forgiven because Christ
has been raised from
the dead

20. Did Jesus die to give us
a do-over?
A right standing with God

21. A righteousness apart
from the law
Romans 3:21-26

22. Declared Righteousness
• Christ’s righteousness imputed (credited) to
us as believers
• 2 Corinthians 5:21b
• Romans 4:4-5
• Philippians 3:8-9
• The Great Exchange

23. Raised for our
Justification
• But the words “it was counted to him” were not
written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It
will be counted to us who believe in him who
raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was
delivered up for our trespasses and raised for
our justification.
– Romans 4:23-25

24. Justified by Faith
• Galatians 2:15-21
• Romans 3:28
• Romans 4:1
• Romans 5:1
• Galatians 3:24

25. Alive in Christ
• Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that
we will also live with him.
– Romans 6:8
• Now it is evident that no one is justified before
God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by
faith.”
– Galatians 3:11

26. “Jesus was so full of merit that not only did he
have enough righteousness to cancel out our sin
and enough that he deserved to be raised from
the dead, but he still had abundantly more credit
remaining in his account...

27. As a result, our justification consists not just of a
canceling of our debt, but also of an imputing to
us of the righteousness of Christ. It is not only
“just as if I’d never sinned,” but also, “just as if I’d
already completed a perfect life.” Jesus doesn’t
merely give us a clean slate and then sit back and
watch whether we will mess it up again.”
Adrian Warnock “Raised with Christ”

28. Faith Alone
• Martin Luther argued that Christianity rises
of falls on the doctrine of Justification by
faith alone.

29. I am Thankful
• Do I have the right relationship with God based on
the imputed righteousness of Jesus?
• Am I trusting in Jesus alone for my salvation, or am
I to some degree relying on my own morality and
religious duties?
• If I know that I am justified through faith in Christ,
do I enjoy the reality of it in my daily experience,
or do I look to my own performance for my
acceptance with God?
Jerry Bridges “The Gospel for Real Life”