Sunday Morning Sermon Notes: 4/5/15Happy RESURRECTION Morning! Love you all! Can't wait to worship!Resurrection = “hope!” (part 4)Exodus 6:6–8 [NIV] First Cup: “I am the LORD, and I will bring you out form under the yoke of the Egyptians.”o “No more beatings, no more bricks, no more throwing babies in the Nile” (Ray Vanderlaan) Second Cup: “I will free you from being slaves to them” (v. 6)o “Matso…leavened bread represents sin (so when you leave Egypt…leave behind sin)…no leaven in your houses…JESUS makes Matso the picture of HIS body” (Vanderlaan)o “I will take your sin nature away” (Ibid.)o “The meal begins with dipping” Third Cup: “I will redeem you”o “I will clean you up. No going back.” (Ibid.) Fourth Cup: “I will take you as my own people, and I will be your GOD.” (v. 7)o “Marriage language…. They waited for that cup…the cup of protection” (Ibid.)Luke 22:18o “Night of watching: lyel shemimimPsalm 1212:3b–4John 11:25–26 [NIV] “anastasis” = “to stand again”o But Jon, I’ve never stood to begin with. Great! The root of the anastasis means “to be born…bring forward…to…leave a place and go elsewhere” (The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon)1. JESUS can take the least and make them “stand again.” Mark 12:41–44 [***emphasis mine]41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. 43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything--all she had to live on."a. JESUS is watching! (v. 41)2. JESUS can take the sinner and make them “stand again.” (Zacheus)Luke 19:5–10 a. 3. JESUS can take some at a dead end, heartbroken and make them “stand again.” Luke 7:12–15 a. “his heart went out to her”Luke 6:4545 The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.b. 4. JESUS can take the weak in faith and make them “stand again.”Mark 9:20–25 a. 5. JESUS can take the unforgiven and make them “stand again.”Luke 7:44–48 a. 6. JESUS can take the convicted and make them “stand again.” Matthew 27:21–26 a. “JESUS knew that the FATHER had to treat JESUS like Barabbas so HE could treat Barabbas like JESUS. Barabbas thought it was the people who set HIM free. No, no, no! It was the love of the FATHER!” (Judah Smith)b. “The opposite of the gospel is for you to work to get out the chains, shake myself free. We are no match for the powers of hell! There is no answer within yourself, your own discipline, your own devotion. We can’t work hard to get out.”c. Only JESUS can take your place. HE is the only one who can set us free.” (Judah Smith)7. JESUS can take the broke and sick and make them “stand again.” (Mark 5)Mark 5: 25–30, 32–34a. 8. JESUS can take the outcast and make them “stand again.” Luke 8:27–29, 35–36 a.9. JESUS can take the weak and make them “stand again.” Acts 4:8–12 a. Peter and John “put them in jail until the next day” (v. 3)10. JESUS took the wounded and make them “stand again.” (Peter)John 21:19a.11. JESUS can take the confused and make them “stand again.”Luke 24:44–4812. JESUS can take the impossible/the dead and make them “stand again.” (Resurrection!)Luke 24:3–8