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Key Scriptures: John 19:38-42 Luke 24:1-8 John 19:38-42 New International Version (NIV) 38 Later,

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I Know So Pastor Mike Wilson Easter March 31, 2018 April 1, 2018

Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away. 39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventyfive pounds. 40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. 41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there. Luke 24:1-8 New International Version (NIV) 24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they remembered his words.

Goal: Move your HOPE SO to a KNOW SO. This message is available online at sagehillschurch.com for further study.

Main Idea: Remember the Reality of the Resurrection Isaiah 40:31 New International Version (NIV) 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. 1 Peter 1:3-4 New International Version (NIV) 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,

Goal: Move your HOPE SO to a KNOW SO. #1 Remember the reality of an EMPTY TOMB… Lee Strobel “No reputable new testament era historian doubts the historical fact that the in which Christ was placed after his crucifixion was and is EMPTY.”

Where’d the body go? 1. Christ’s enemies took the body William Lane Craig “This is historical evidence of the highest quality because it comes not from Christians but from the very enemies of the early Christian faith.” 2. Christ’s friends took the body 3. Christ wasn’t actually dead… (swoon theory) 4. Christ was raised from the dead…

Luke 24:2-3 New International Version (NIV) 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 1 Peter 1:3 New International Version (NIV) 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

#2 Remember the reality of the 10 independent unified accounts… Dr. Norman Perrin “The more we study the tradition with regard to the appearances, the firmer the rock begins to appear upon which they are based.” 1. 1.To Mary Magdalene (Mark 16:9; John 20:1118) 2. To the other women (Matt. 28:8-10) 3. To Peter (Luke 24:34; 1 Cor. 15:5) 4. To the two men on the road to Emmaus (Mark 16:12; Luke 24:13-35) 5. To eleven of the disciples (except Thomas— Luke 24:33-49; John 20:19-24) 6. To the twelve a week later (John 20:24-29; 1 Cor. 15:5) 7. To seven disciples by the Sea of Tiberias (John 21:1-23) 8. To five hundred followers (1 Cor. 15:6) 9. To James (1 Cor. 15:7) 10. To the twelve at the ascension (Acts 1:3-12)

Simon Greenleaf one of the most highly regarded legal minds ever seen in America.

“It was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they had narrated, had not Jesus actually risen from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.



Thomas Arnold, former Professor of History at Rugby and Oxford, “I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better, fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair enquirer, than the great sign which God hath given us that Christ died, and rose again from the dead.” Josephus (NON CHRISTIAN) the first-century Jewish historian “And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.”

#2 Remember the reality of the 10 independent unified accounts… John 19:25-27 New International Version (NIV) 25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

#3 Remember the reality of a mother’s heart… #4 Remember the reality of renewed relationship and ruined religiosity…