SERIES: Faces  SERMON:  “The Face Of Rejoicing”

SERIES: Faces  SERMON:  “The Face Of Rejoicing”

Romans 4:25 (TPT). “Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that He had made us right with God!”

Romans 4:25 (YLT) “Who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.”

Jesus could not be raised if every sin was not forgiven. 

Full atonement!  Jesus covered it all. 

The resurrection is proof that I am righteous!!!

Acts 4:33  “And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.”  

Central Message of the early Church!

That Jesus Christ is risen from the dead is the central theme of the Christian faith.

If Jesus had only lived as a good example we would still be in our sin.

If Jesus had only died for us we would still be in our sin.

Jesus is risen from the dead!

1 Corinthians 15:17-19 “And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.”

1 Corinthians 15:20-22 “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.  For since death came through a human, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human, for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.”

Colossians 2:17  “These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.”   

The old covenant. Special days … foods … sacrifices…

Psalm 89:15 (AMP) “Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!”

Jesus was raised on the 17th day of Nisan.    

(17 Overcoming Enemy – Complete Victory)

Day of the harvest of Firstfruits.                    Day Noah’s ark rested on the new earth.

Day passed through the Red Sea – New Life  Day manna stopped enjoyed New Land

Day Esther touch the sceptre of the King.

Leveiticus 23:10-11, 14   “When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.”

… You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”   

The harvest is blessed when He is first.

Matthew 27:52-53 “…and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;  and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.”

John 20:1, 11-18   “Now the first day (First Fruits 17th) of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb… 

“Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”
She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

Adam was a gardener who failed in his task and the world became a wasteland of war and sin. Second Adam (Jesus) will succeed in his task.  Christ will restore the ruined garden.

Revelation 22:2-4 “On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. Nothing accursed will be there anymore. … They shall see His face,”

Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, …

… ’I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ” Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.”

Closing Lessons:

The victory is complete.

This broken world can’t shape you.

All injustice is eliminated.

You are marginalised NO MORE!

Look in His Face — Freedom