Resurrection day - Implications
1. He secured your salvation by his death.
1 Peter 3:18 comforts us with these words, “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.
“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.” Rom. 6:8-112. Shows that Jesus is the resurrection and the Life
John 10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”
John 11: 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,Application: Jesus can raise death things. Nothing is to far gone for Jesus to resurrect it.
3. His resurrection proves that He has authority over death and can give eternal life.
As 1 Corinthians 15:17 explains, “…if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.”
John 3:14-16 …14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16“For God so loved the world,i that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” Romans 6:4-5
“We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.” Romans 6:94. His followers and disciples will live again just like Jesus lives again.
Scripture assures that Christ is the “firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20) and that we who believe in Him as Lord and Savior will have eternal life.
1 Cor 15:42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.Application: Just as Jesus was given an earthly body for his time on earth, then was given a heavenly body for his time in heave so shall we.
5. Jesus wants his disciples to know that the power of God can overcome anything.
I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.” (Philippians 3:10-11 ESV)
Application: Your suffer, but it is only temporary and in your suffering, you are experiencing a little of what Jesus suffered, but you will also experience the power of resurrection.6. Jesus is alive in heaven interceding for his children
“Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” Romans 8:34
