Happy Resurrection Day!

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Happy Easter!

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B1 Some benefits of Jesus’s resurrection

C1 A fulfillment of a promise

D1 Psalm 16:10 NKJV - For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

D2 Acts 2:27 NKJV - For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

D3 Acts 13:35 NKJV - Therefore He also says in another [Psalm]: 'You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

D4 John 2:19-21 NKJV - Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?" But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

C2 Proof of Jesus’s sinlessness: Romans 1:3-4 NKJV - concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, [and] declared [to be] the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

C3 Proof of Jesus’s deity: Romans 1:3-4 NKJV - concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, [and] declared [to be] the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.

C4 To give salvation: Acts 5:30-32 NKJV - "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. "Him God has exalted to His right hand [to be] Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. "And we are His witnesses to these things, and [so] also [is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

C5 To exalt to the Father’s right hand: Acts 5:30-32 NKJV - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. "Him God has exalted to His right hand [to be] Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. "And we are His witnesses to these things, and [so] also [is] the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.

C5 To judge the world with righteousness: Acts 17:31 NKJV - because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.

C6 The highest authority under the Father: Ephesians 1:19-23 NKJV - and what [is] the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated [Him] at His right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all [things] under His feet, and gave Him [to be] head over all [things] to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

C7 Creation hopes in Jesus’s resurrection: Romans 8:19-22 NKJV - For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected [it] in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

C8 The new creation of the saints, the believers. Jesus was the first, the believers, the church, is next: 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV - Therefore, if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

C9 Jesus has all the rights of the firstborn: Colossians 1:15 NKJV - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

C10 To turn us away from sins, to the Jew first, then to us Gentiles: Acts 3:26 NKJV - To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one [of you] from your iniquities.

C11 Shows us the Jesus is the one to put our faith in: Romans 4:24-25 NKJV - but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

C12 Proof of our justification: Romans 4:24-25 NKJV - but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.

C13 Showing us to live a new life, one of righteousness: Romans 6:4 NKJV - Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

C14 Showing us that after resurrection, there is no more death. Jesus is already raised; ours is coming: Romans 6:4, 9 NKJV - Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ... knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.

C15 No longer under the authority of Mosaic Law: Romans 7:4 NKJV - Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

C16 A promise for our resurrection: Romans 8:11 NKJV - But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

C17 We have to believe in His resurrection to be saved: Romans 10:9 NKJV - that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

C18 The believers who have died will be raised to a new body like Jesus’s. The living believers will ascend, never to die: 1 Corinthians 15:52 NKJV - in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

C19 Delivers us from the wrath to come (hell): 1 Thessalonians 1:10 NKJV - and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, [even] Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

C20 Jesus can now show light (understanding) to both Jews and Gentiles: Acts 26:23 NKJV - that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the [Jewish] people and to the Gentiles.

C21 To reign over the Gentiles (He would have to live forever to be able to accomplish this): Romans 15:12 NKJV - And again, Isaiah says: There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope.

C22 Fulfillment of Old Testament Scriptures:

D1 Mark 12:26-27 NKJV - But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the [burning] bush [passage], how God spoke to him, saying, 'I [am] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ? "He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.

D2 Daniel 12:2 NKJV - And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

D3 Job 19:25-27 NKJV - For I know [that] my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this [I know], That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. [How] my heart yearns within me!

D4 Ezekiel 37:12-13 NKJV - Therefore prophesy and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. "Then you shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

D5 Hosea 13:14 NKJV - I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.