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SUNDAY 4/13/2014
JOHN 10:10 NKJV
1st CORINTHIANS 5:7-8 NIV
7/ Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8/ Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
ROMANS 14:17 NLT
17/ For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
LUKE 17:21
the kingdom of God is within you.”
Romans 8:11 KJV
11/ ... if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
painting above by: Vincent Barzoni
The scripture John 5:25 printed directly above in yellow print, are also words spoken by JESUS.
John 5:26-30 NKJV
Not subject to death.
Never to be forgotten; everlasting.
Liable or subject to death.
Of or relating to humankind; human.
Of, relating to, or accompanying death.
The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
Living organisms considered as a group.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 NIV
51/ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52/ in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53/ For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
1/ Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2/ By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3/ For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4/ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5/ and that he appeared to Cephas, {referring to Peter} and then to the Twelve. 6/ After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7/ Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8/and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born. 9/ For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10/ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11/ Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
12/ But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13/ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14/ And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. 15/ More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 16/ For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17/ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18/ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19/ If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. 20/ But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21/ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22/ For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23/ But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24/ Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25/ For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26/ The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27/ For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. 28/ When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. 29/ Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30/ And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour? 31/ I face death every day—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord. 32/ If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 33/ Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34/ Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
35/ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36/ How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37/ When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38/ But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39/ Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40/ There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41/ The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. 42/ So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43/ it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44/ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45/ So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46/ The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47/ The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48/ As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49/ And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. 50/ I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51/ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52/ in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53/ For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54/ When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55/ “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56/ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57/ But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58/ Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1/ Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2/ (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) 3/ So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” 4/ When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” 5/ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6/ So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, 7/ and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” 8/ “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” 9/ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light. 10/ It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.” 11/ After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” 12/ His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” 13/ Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep. 14/ So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, 15/ and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.” 16/ Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
17/ On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18/ Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, 19/ and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20/ When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. 21/ “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22/ But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” 23/ Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24/ Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25/ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26/ and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27/ “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” 28/ After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” 29/ When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. 30/ Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31/ When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there. 32/ When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33/ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34/ “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. 35/ Jesus wept. 36/ Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” 37/ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
38/ Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39/ “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” 40/ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” 41/ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42/ I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43/ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44/ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
Loving God, Loving My Neighbor With the Compassion of Jesus
Our Risen Savior
Romans 12:15
Ecclesiates 3:1-8 NIV
ROMANS 15:13 NIV
13/ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
During the week we will be adding more scriptures that pertain to the resurrection of the dead. Be sure to come back to get all of God's good, good, word that will bless & encourage you. It is so wonderful to be assured by God's Word that we have eternal life & that we will, at the second coming of Jesus, receive glorified bodies with no death in them; while being reunited with our loved ones that have gone home to be with the Lord.
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JESUS RAISED THE DEAD TO LIFE
MATTHEW 9:18, 23 thru 26 KJV
18/ WHILE HE SPAKE THESE THINGS UNTO THEM, BEHOLD, THERE CAME A CERTAIN RULER, AND WORSHIPPED HIM, SAYING, MY DAUGHTER IS EVEN NOW DEAD: BUT COME AND LAY THY HAND UPON HER, AND SHE SHALL LIVE. 23/ AND WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE RULER'S HOUSE, AND SAW THE MINSTRELS AND THE PEOPLE MAKING A NOISE, 24/ HE SAID UNTO THEM, GIVE PLACE: FOR THE MAID IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH. AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN. 25/ BUT WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE PUT FORTH, HE WENT IN, AND TOOK HER BY THE HAND, AND THE MAID AROSE. 26/ AND THE FAME HEREOF WENT ABROAD INTO ALL THAT LAND.
LUKE 7:12 thru 15 KJV
12/ NOW WHEN HE CAME NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW: AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH HER. 13/ AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT. 14/ AND HE CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER: AND THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, YOUNG MAN, I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE. 15/ AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER.
UPDATE
ABOUT GOOD FRIDAY
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES ON APRIL 18TH, 2014, COMMERATE THE DEATH OF OUR PRECIOUS LORD & SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.{In actuality, by Jewish calendar dates & times, Jesus Christ our Passover lamb, was sacrificed and died at the time of the Jews Passover sacrifice of the lambs in the evening at the end of the 14th of Abib (Nisan), which occurred on a Wednesday in 31 AD, the year of His crucifixion. He was buried just before sunset that day, and he remained in the grave, "the belly or heart of the earth," for exactly three days and three nights, as He had said,
until he rose from the grave of His death just around sunset on that week's Sabbath ending Saturday evening/Sunday morning.
Jewish Calendar Date:
When God created time, He first created night and then day;
{Genesis 1:5 * 5/And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day}
therefore, a Jewish calendar date begins with the night beforehand. While a day in the secular calendar begins and ends at midnight, a Jewish day goes from nightfall to nightfall. It was first discovered by His followers, early on Sunday morning, the end of the 7th day Sabbath, the 1st day of the week, that He had risen from the dead.
The actual day & time we celebrate Jesus' birth, death & resurrection, is of secondary importance to the facts that:
16/ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17/ Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
22/ “The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,” he said. “He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.”
23/ Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me. 24/ If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
THE RESURRECTION!
Matthew 27:50-65 NIV
50/ And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. 51/ At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52/ and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53/ They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
54/ When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”
55/ Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. 56/ Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
57/ As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. 58/ Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. 59/ Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60/ and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. 61/Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
62/ The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63/ “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64/ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.” 65/ “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66/ So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY ON THE TEACHINGS OF WHERE JESUS FIRST WENT AFTER HE DIED ON THE CROSS AT CALVARY, REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #111 "HE {JESUS} SET THE CAPTIVES FREE"
MATTHEW 28:1-20 NIV
1/ After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2/ There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3/ His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4/ The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. 5/ The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6/ He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7/ Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.” 8/ So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9/ Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10/ Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
11/ While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12/ When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13/ telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14/ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15/ So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.
16/ Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17/ When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18/ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19/ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20/ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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