The Resurrection (7 of 7)
Series: The Passion of Christ
Bob Ingle
Mark 16
The Resurrection of Jesus is what separates every other major religion from Christianity.
Buddha died and is dead. Muhammad died and is dead. Gandhi died and is dead. Joseph Smith died and is dead. Jesus died, but He rose from the dead, and is alive forevermore. This is the crown jewel of our faith: the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Back in 1992, a letter came from the Health and Human Services department to a resident of Greenville County in South Carolina. It read: ''Your food stamps will be stopped at the end of March, because we received notice that you passed away. May God you bless you. You may reapply if your circumstances change.'' We find that humorous because we have learned that death is inflexible. That person is never going to reapply because their circumstances are never going to change. Death is fixed and death is final. We all know this.
If you watched your best friend die with your own eyes, you attended their funeral, and watched their body buried, you would not believe anyone who told you a few days later that they saw your friend at Wal-Mart picking up some milk and deodorant. You would think that person was either sadly mistaken, or unusually cruel. But you wouldn't believe them for a second. Why? Because dead people don't drink milk or use deodorant. We have learned that death is an unchangeable, unfixable reality.
It is that truth that makes our text today so remarkable. The followers of Jesus had watched their best friend and their greatest hope die a cruel death and be buried in a borrowed tomb. Their despair was rooted in their belief that His death was unchangeable and unfixable. Then the greatest event in the history of mankind happens. Look at Mark 16:1-8 (READ).
Some of you might say, ''Wait Pastor Bob. Why stop there? My Bible has more verses.'' The is what's known as a short version and long version of Mark. The majority of Bible scho ...
Series: The Passion of Christ
Bob Ingle
Mark 16
The Resurrection of Jesus is what separates every other major religion from Christianity.
Buddha died and is dead. Muhammad died and is dead. Gandhi died and is dead. Joseph Smith died and is dead. Jesus died, but He rose from the dead, and is alive forevermore. This is the crown jewel of our faith: the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Back in 1992, a letter came from the Health and Human Services department to a resident of Greenville County in South Carolina. It read: ''Your food stamps will be stopped at the end of March, because we received notice that you passed away. May God you bless you. You may reapply if your circumstances change.'' We find that humorous because we have learned that death is inflexible. That person is never going to reapply because their circumstances are never going to change. Death is fixed and death is final. We all know this.
If you watched your best friend die with your own eyes, you attended their funeral, and watched their body buried, you would not believe anyone who told you a few days later that they saw your friend at Wal-Mart picking up some milk and deodorant. You would think that person was either sadly mistaken, or unusually cruel. But you wouldn't believe them for a second. Why? Because dead people don't drink milk or use deodorant. We have learned that death is an unchangeable, unfixable reality.
It is that truth that makes our text today so remarkable. The followers of Jesus had watched their best friend and their greatest hope die a cruel death and be buried in a borrowed tomb. Their despair was rooted in their belief that His death was unchangeable and unfixable. Then the greatest event in the history of mankind happens. Look at Mark 16:1-8 (READ).
Some of you might say, ''Wait Pastor Bob. Why stop there? My Bible has more verses.'' The is what's known as a short version and long version of Mark. The majority of Bible scho ...
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