11. THE HEART
OF
CHRISTIANITY

12. Apart from
the
resurrection
of Jesus
there is no
Christianity

13. THE
SEQUENCE

14. •The Birth
•The Life
•Death
•Burial
•Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

15. The
Distinguishing Feature
of Christianity
the doctrine of the resurrection.

16. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:17
“If Christ has not been raised, your faith is
futile and you are still in your sins.”

17. WHAT IS
RESURRECTION?

18. It is three things.
•You’re alive.
•You’re dead
•You’re back to physical life
a state of perfection that was apart from
the kind of suffering and limitations that
the normal human body seems to endure.

19. WHAT IS THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
FOR THE RESURRECTION
OF JESUS?

20. 1.
IT WAS PROPHESIED
IN ADVANCE.

21. Isaiah 53 - called the fifth gospel ,
prophesied 700 years in advance.

22. ISAIAH 53:12
Therefore I will divide him a portion with the
many, and he shall divide the spoil with the
strong, because he poured out his soul to
death and was numbered with the
transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the
transgressors.

23. 2.
JESUS HIMSELF PREDICTS
REPEATEDLY HIS OWN DEATH,
BURIAL AND RESURRECTION

24. MATTHEW 8:31
“And Jesus began to teach them that the
Son of Man must suffer many things, be
rejected by the elders and the chief
priests and the scribes, and be killed,
and after three days rise again.”

25. 3.
JESUS DIED ON
THE CROSS

26. That the
Messiah will
suffer and die
on a crucial
death
–
The Cross

27. 4.
JESUS WAS BURIED
IN A WELL-KNOWN TOMB

28. MATTHEW 27:57-60
57 When it was evening, there came a
rich man from Arimathea, named
Joseph, who also was a disciple of
Jesus.
58 He went to Pilate and asked for the
body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be
given to him.

29. MATTHEW 27:57-60
59 And Joseph took the body and
wrapped it in a clean linen shroud
60 and laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled
a great stone to the entrance of the tomb
and went away.

30. 5.
JESUS RETURNED
TRIUMPHANT, VICTORIOUS
OVER DEATH

31. LUKE 24: 1-3
1 But on the first day of the week, at
early dawn, they went to the tomb,
taking the spices they had prepared.
2 And they found the stone rolled away
from the tomb,
3 but when they went in they did not find
the body of the Lord Jesus.

32. THE ANGELS

33. LUKE 24: 4 - 7
4 While they were perplexed about this,
behold, two men stood by them in dazzling
apparel.
5 And as they were frightened and bowed
their faces to the ground, the men said to
them, "Why do you seek the living among
the dead?

34. LUKE 24: 4 - 7
6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember
how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
7 that the Son of Man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful men and be crucified
and on the third day rise."

35. PETER RAN
TO THE TOMB

36. LUKE 24: 10-12
10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and
Joanna and Mary the mother of James and
the other women with them who told these
things to the apostles,
11 but these words seemed to them an idle
tale, and they did not believe them.

37. LUKE 24: 10-12
12 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb;
stooping and looking in, he saw the linen
cloths by themselves; and he went home
marveling at what had happened.

38. 6.
JESUS STARTS APPEARING
TO PEOPLE,
VERY MUCH ALIVE.

39. 1CORINTHIANS 15: 3 - 8
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance
what I also received: that Christ died for our
sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on
the third day in accordance with the
Scriptures,
5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to
the twelve.

40. 1CORINTHIANS 15: 3 - 8
6 Then he appeared to more than five
hundred brothers at one time, most of whom
are still alive, though some have fallen
asleep.
7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the
apostles.
8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he
appeared also to me.

41. 7.
THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE THAT BEGIN
TESTIFYING TO RESURRECTION
OF JESUS, THAT HAD JESUS
NOT RISEN, THEY WOULD NOT TESTIFY

42. Thomas

43. JOHN 20: 25 -28
25 So the other disciples told him, "We
have seen the Lord." But he said to them,
"Unless I see in his hands the mark of the
nails, and place my finger into the mark of
the nails, and place my hand into his side, I
will never believe."

44. JOHN 20: 25 -28
26 Eight days later, his disciples were
inside again, and Thomas was with them.
Although the doors were locked, Jesus
came and stood among them and said,
"Peace be with you."

45. JOHN 20: 25 -28
27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your
finger here, and see my hands; and put out
your hand, and place it in my side. Do not
disbelieve, but believe."
28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and
my God!"

46. MORE BLESSED
PEOPLE

47. JOHN 20: 29
29 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed
because you have seen me? Blessed are
those who have not seen and yet have
believed."

48. 8.
JESUS’BROTHERS,
JAMES AND JUDE
WORSHIP HIM AS GOD

49. James and Jude
addressing Jesus as Lord

50. JAMES 1:1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord
Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the
Dispersion: Greetings.

51. JUDE 1:1
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and
brother of James, To those who are called,
beloved in God the Father and kept for
Jesus Christ:

52. 9.
JESUS ‘ OWN MOTHER
MARY WORSHIPS HIM
AS GOD

53. ACTS 1: 14
14 All these with one accord were devoting
themselves to prayer, together with the
women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and
his brothers.

54. LUKE 1:35
35 And the angel answered her, "The Holy
Spirit will come upon you, and the power of
the Most High will overshadow you;
therefore the child to be born will be called
holy—the Son of God.

55. WHAT IS THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE FOR JESUS’
RESURRECTION?

56. 1.
The disciples were
transformed.

57. 2.
They remained loyal to
Jesus as their
Messiah.

58. 3.
The character of the disciples
mitigates against considering
them to be liars.

59. 4.
The Sabbath changed
from Saturday to
Sunday.

60. 5.
People began worshiping
Jesus as God.

61. 6.
The early church had
sacraments like
communion and baptism.

62. 7.
Some say, “Well, the stories
are fabricated and they’re
not true. They’re lies.”

63. 8.
The tomb was not
enshrined.

64. 9.
This is perhaps the most
compelling, Christianity
comes into existence.

65. WHAT IS THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE
FOR THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS?
•Thomas Arnold
•Josephus

66. WHAT ARE THE PRIMARY
OBJECTIONS TO JESUS’
RESURRECTION?

67. “Didn’t Jesus just swoon
on the cross?”

68. Some say Jesus didn’t rise
physically, He rose spiritually.

69. Some say, “Well, they went
to the wrong tomb.”

70. Some people say, “He had a twin
brother that looked like Him and
He did a little stunt double.”

71. Others say, “Oh, it was a
hallucination.”

72. There is this common ideology
that says, “The resurrection of
Jesus was an idea that was
borrowed.

73. WHAT IS THE HOPE OF THE
RESURRECTION OF JESUS?

74. No other major world religion has as its
founder or any leader anyone who was
resurrected from death.
•Death is not the big deal that it once
was because of Jesus.
•This gives us a collective hope.
•Sin and its effects are deeply hated
by people who don’t even know
Jesus.

75. DEATH IS
SWALLOWED
UP

76. 1 CORINTHIANS 15: 54 – 57
54 When the perishable puts on the
imperishable, and the mortal puts on
immortality, then shall come to pass the
saying that is written: "Death is swallowed
up in victory."

77. 55 "O death, where is your victory? O
death, where is your sting?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power
of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 CORINTHIANS 15: 54 – 57

78. JESUS IS RISEN !
AND HE LIVES
FOREVERMORE!

79. FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL
Presented By:
Ps. Alan Esporas
FCC Main San Mateo, Rizal, PH
10AM MORNING SERVICE
JUNE 11, 2017