Preached by Chris Broom, 11/15/2009

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Mikaele Fere (3rd from left) Gets Baptized!

The Resurrection was the most important day ever, in the history of the world. Everything about that day was foretold. Jesus himself told his disciples repeatedly that he would suffer, die, and be raised again on the third day. So why wasn’t the biggest party in history planned? Why weren’t the disciples waiting with cake and streamers to celebrate when Jesus woke up? Reading the account we see how sad and discouraged they are on the third day, having no faith that he will raise that day. How was it that they didn’t believe? Let’s put ourselves in the apostle’s shoes and see if we can’t understand.

Mark 16:1-14
- How is it that we don’t believe what God has said will happen?
- God says “Believe and I’ll show you.” We say “Show me and I’ll believe.”
- Why Galilee? That is where he first called them. Sometimes we have to look back to where we started to see how much God has done.

Luke 24:1-32
- (v.8) We can get Spiritual Amnesia: by Old Age spiritually… ‘been there done that’ attitude. OR by having hit your head… hard times knock you out and make you forget Jesus’ words
- (v.11) Worse than forgetting we can think the gospel message is nonsense.
- (v.16) Why were they kept from recognizing him? God wants us to believe in his word… not in our sight.
- (v.24) But we believe more in what we see then in what God says
- (v.25) Jesus didn’t say “oh you poor disciples” he rebuked them for their lack of belief. Note: Jesus was anonymous at this point – takes away our excuse for not rebuking each other.
- (v.32) Why did he disappear? Again, he didn’t want them to believe in what they saw. Since he disappeared, they remembered how they felt when he opened the scripture to them.

God doesn’t want us to just have blind faith either. That is why there is 400 prophecies about Jesus that were fulfilled. We need to know why we believe in the resurrection, don’t just believe b/c we are told. What was Jesus? Because he claimed to be God he couldn’t have been just a prophet or a good teacher… He’s either a legend, a lunatic, a liar, or Lord? You must decide for yourself. See Andrew Smellie’s article on The Case for Jesus: http://metrodcchurch.org/archives/354

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