Easter Sunday: Savior for Life Palm Sunday: Jesus is Here – the Savior has Come. ZEC 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” When did Jesus first show up in your life? Good Friday: Jesus is Our Savior from Death. (ISA 53:6, ROM 5:8-9, EPH 1:7-8, HEB 10:19-22, 10.) 2 COR 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” What is something Jesus saved you from? Easter Sunday – Christ is Risen and He is Our Savior for Life! JOHN 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” JHN 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” So, What’s the Point of Jesus’ Resurrection? JOHN 11:25,26 Jesus said to (Martha), “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” Martha believed that the resurrection is an event; Jesus showed her (and us) that the resurrection is a Person. 1 COR 15:2,21,22 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Martha’s knowledge of eternal life was an abstract idea; Jesus proved that knowledge of eternal life is a personal relationship. ROM 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. Martha thought victory over death was a future expectation; Jesus corrects her, showing that victory is a present reality. The Kingdom of God is now. (LUKE 4:16-21) What has Jesus saved you FOR? You were saved to experience resurrection life now. (1 PET 1:3-6) “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, He is risen!” ROM 6:13 “Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.” “Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection”. ~Watchman Nee