The Resurrection of the Son of God

Well, good morning. You guys ready for a conversation about the miracle of the resurrection. There's a lot of white hair in here. You guys supposed to be skilled at this.

Amen.

Yeah, there you go. Teach the young people how to do it guys. All right. Well, I'm pastor Jeff and we're here to talk about the miracle of the resurrection in the midst of that. Two more miracles to mention is one.

I was away all week in Florida Preaching at a conference and almost didn't make it back. And so this pulpit was actually almost empty empty tomb empty pulpit. Okay, and Miracle. I'm here. So praise God for that.

Another miracle to mention is I was told to bait to talk about the resurrection of the Son of God God the history of God's faithfulness regarding it. And I was told to do in about 35 minutes and if you know me and my sins in this area There's another miracle.

So pray for that many guys might have discovered a little late getting started in here and that was my fault. So all the hating can come this direction not to your staff. All right, if you would open your Bible to 1st Corinthians 15, let's go to New Testament.

Paul’s Testimony and the Eyewitness Tradition of 1 Corinthians 15

1st Corinthians chapter 15. It's a letter written by the Apostle Paul to the church in Corinth. And as you get there if you're new to your Bibles, it's to the right of your Bible. It's after the Gospels and as you get there I'll sort of explain to you a bit the Apostle Paul wrote this letter to the church in Corinth and to understand really the miracle the Resurrection and the uniqueness of this message.

You really need to consider the person who wrote this message in 1st Corinthians 15. The Apostle Paul addresses the eyewitness testimony to the resurrection of Jesus in history. But who wrote it is actually what makes it so compelling.

The Apostle Paul in Galatians chapter 1 tells you about his Pre-conversion when he was outside of Christ as an unbeliever. It says that he persecuted the church that he actually tried to destroy it. So think about that as you read this letter of Paul to the church in Corinth about the eyewitnesses to the resurrection.

You're reading about it from a guy who was Hostile to the Christian faith if you look in Acts chapter 9 at the Apostle Paul's conversion. The Apostle Paul in Acts chapter 9 is on his way to throw Christians in jail.

We know the Apostle Paul was responsible for at least the death of one Christian. The first martyrdom We have recorded in our new testament is Stephen and Stephen is killed. Paul is there holding the coats.

He sanctioned the murder and that's that's what it was. It was the murder of Stephen. Because of his faith in Jesus and in Acts chapter 9. It's really cool as the Apostle Paul turns to faith in Christ.

He gets saved his eyes are open to Jesus. He goes to Damascus starts preaching Christ proving from the scriptures that's your Old Testament by the way that Jesus is in fact Mashiach that Jesus is the Messiah.

The Christians they didn't want to have anything to do with them. I mean think about it. This guy has got a reputation for throwing Christians like you and like me into jail and now he shows up at church service.

Right, that'd be like Richard Dawkins who wrote the God delusion like showing up like, you know, I will rise like you'd be like. Something's up. He's an undercover guy or something like he's he's got sort of something up his sleeve.

Well, that's Paul. He's that guy but I'm like to like a very strange high level. He hates the church and he tried to destroy it and he's the guy who wrote this. So let's read what he says to the church in Corinth and then let's pray.

1st Corinthians 15 verse 1. Now I would remind you brothers of the gospel. I preached to you which you received in which you stand. And by which you are being saved if you hold fast to the word I preached to you unless you believed in vain for I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received.

That Christ died for our sins. Listen in accordance with the scriptures that he was buried that he was raised on the third day. Ready in accordance with the scriptures and that he appeared to and that's that's Peter there.

He appeared to Peter then to the twelve then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time. Most of whom are still alive. Though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James then to all the Apostles last of all as to one untimely born.

He appeared to also to me. For I am the least of the Apostles unworthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the Church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am and and his grace toward me was not in vain on the contrary I worked harder than any of them though.

It was not I but the grace of God that is is with me whether then it was I or they so we preached and so You believed now if Christ Is proclaimed as raised from the dead. How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

But if there is no resurrection of the dead then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised and our Preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testified about God that he has raised Christ Whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised for if the dead are not raised not even Christ has been raised and if Christ has not been raised your faith is a Futile and you are still in your sins.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished if in Christ we have hope in this life. Only we are of all people most to be pitied. Let's pray father. I pray that you'd bless God. Please this time I pray that you'd open the eyes of the blind that are in this room.

Those who cannot hear those who have hearts of stone that you would convict by your spirit. That you would challenge that you would bring life into death and I pray for those of us who belong to you that you would please ignite within us a passion God for this truth that we.

Would.

Revel in the truth of the resurrection Jesus you died you were raised you are ascended and seated. We trust in you. I pray God that you would teach today by your spirit get me out of the way. I pray that I would decrease and that you would increase in Jesus name.

Amen. It's a really powerful thing. The resurrection of the Son of God is at the centerpiece of the gospel story and you have to consider something about. What the context is that Paul speaks in. He is speaking in a time where hostile witnesses could have been brought forth to contradict what he was saying about the resurrection.

The Apostle Paul here recites. What is essentially an early tradition when he said I delivered to you what I also received. Many scholars believe and it's really it's something that's clearly accepted that he is reciting.

What was probably one of the earliest? Traditions in the Christian Church imagine this if you were a Christian during the time of the resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Not long after you would have been reciting this tradition in church and to others.

About what Christ had actually accomplished and so what's interesting here is the Apostle Paul is speaking in a context again. Where hostile witnesses could have been brought forth against his testimony.

Not only is Paul interestingly the man who is trying to kill Christians and now is living a life of Poverty brokenness shame and all the rest but he says in a context where people could come against this story.

Look, if you don't believe me go and ask them. Jesus appeared to this guy this guy this guy and then to me and actually more than 500 eyewitnesses at one time. He says you don't believe me go ask them.

I mean what drives a person to go from a persecutor of the Christian Church trying to actually stamp it out. Seeing as seeing it as a heretical cult to now laying his life down and actually ending up dying.

For his faith in Jesus. We know that Paul was killed in the 60s of the first century by beheading by Nero during the Neuronic persecution of Christians what drives a person to die for their faith like that.

It's that he saw Jesus alive from the dead and it transformed his life. You can say amen to that. Come on guys, let's go you get you have to outdo the militant 830 crew. Okay.

All right.

So what's amazing though? If you think about the fact that the Apostle Paul says in Corinthians that he says I've been beaten times without number. Stoned shipwrecked. I'm in danger every day danger from my own countrymen danger from robbers and he says it's a light and momentary affliction.

Yeah, right. I Mean think about this for a moment. I asked this question in the last service how many of you guys have been beaten for your faith in Jesus? Raise your hands raise your hands raise your hands.

Nobody.

The Apostle Paul says I've been beaten times without number. I gotta ask the question at what point do you stop counting? Was it five? Was it ten twenty thirty how many times. And the Apostle Paul lays his life down lives a life of poverty.

He says at one point even to this very hour. We are hungry and are in rags and he says to people in his Context listen if Jesus isn't alive from the dead. Then we are our hope is in vain. Everything's in vain and we are liars because we're saying God raised Jesus from the dead when in fact He didn't raise Jesus from the dead.

Listen, the Christian faith is a faith that is rooted in fact objective truth the objective testimony of History. Jesus is alive from the dead and that's a historical fact. Jesus says John 14 6 I am the way and the what?

And the what and the truth and the life no man comes to the father but by me Jesus is the truth. Those who follow Jesus are the ones that are committed to truth. We love truth. We embrace truth because we follow and love and trust in the one who is the very embodiment of truth.

The Christian faith is a faith that is rooted in truth and facts and evidence and the historical testimony of God and what he Did in the world? The world today is hostile towards our faith. It always has been we're all just a bunch of rebels.

Anyways, amen. Like someone says one of my favorites if you can't say amen say ouch, okay.

We're all a bunch of rebels.

But we live in a hostile Context or people will say things about Christians about our faith like well, it'd be a Christian. You sort of have to like leave your brain at the door. You have to be a person of blind faith commitments.

You know people will say things like well, it's just faith. Listen, that's not Christianity. Our faith is rooted in truth in fact We are the ones that are supposed to have a rigorous commitment to truth and on the issue of the resurrection.

The Apostle Paul actually says this look if Jesus isn't raised from the dead. Don't believe him. If he's not raised from the dead, then we are most to be pitied we're still in our sins and We're making God out to be a liar saying that God raised him from the dead.

Our faith is rooted in the fact of history of the resurrection. Jesus split history with his coming his life his death his resurrection and his ascension. The world has never been the same and it will never be the same because of what God has done in Jesus to save sinners and Amazingly, the resurrection is the very centerpiece of the gospel story.

The Resurrection in the Life and Ministry of Jesus

Think about it for a moment. Jesus in John chapter 2. He says destroy this temple and in three days I Will raise it up. He's telling his disciples. He's saying I'm gonna go to Jerusalem. They're gonna kill me and after three days I will rise from the dead death and resurrection is all over all.

Over Jesus life and mission. He comes into a little girl's room Who's been dead. People are mourning and weeping and he says little girl Arise, and this little girl who's dead rises from the dead. Jesus displays that he's the same God who created the universe when he spoke the universe leapt into existence.

Jesus spoke at the very beginning into darkness and he said let there be light and there was light he called into lifeless matter and he says live and he creates man in his image and Jesus goes to this little girl's bedside and he says little girl Arise, and she's alive from the dead.

Jesus in John chapter 11 go there is the story of Jesus and Lazarus and it's amazing to show the center point of the Resurrection story all throughout the Gospels in Jesus in John chapter 11. It's a famous scene of Lazarus, right?

Jesus has a buddy named Lazarus and it's interesting Jesus.

Purposefully waits.

He waits four days to go and do what he was going to do with Lazarus. He was going to do it. Anyways, he waits to the point where when he tells the disciples to roll away the stone in the King James version.

It's they say but he stinketh. He stinks. He's a rotting dead Stinking corpse. And Jesus purposefully waited four days to get there because there was a superstition hanging around that time that your spirit sort of like hangs out around the body like for a period of days and like Only after like a certain period then there's no hope.

Well Jesus waits till there's no hope in their minds and then he goes now into the story. John 11 17. Now when Jesus came he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem about two miles off and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went and met him. But Mary remained seated in a house. Martha said to Jesus Lord if you'd been here My brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God God will give you.

Jesus said to her your brother will rise again Martha said to him. I I know that he'll rise again in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said to her I.

Am.

The resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me though he died yet shall he live. And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this she said to him? Yes Lord. I believe that you are the Christ the Son of God who is coming into the world.

The Resurrection story is part of the whole gospel message that Jesus was going to die and rise again. Conquered death as the Son of God the Messiah. Genesis chapter 3 the very first thing the Bible tells us about Jesus.

The fall enters and then God promises Jesus. He says the woman's seed. Get that the woman's seed will crush the head of the serpents. But will be wounded in the process to be bruised on his heel. This Simultaneous act in history is going to bring the death blow to Satan's work.

But there will be a wounding of the Messiah in the process. The Messiah is coming to save and the Bible teaches very clearly This constant theme of the resurrection. Jesus says arise from the dead rise from the dead.

I will rise from the dead. And Jesus tells us whoever lives and believes in him will never die. Because you have already gone from death to life.

Amen.

God’s Sovereign Story in History and the Promise of Messiah

The resurrection is the centerpiece of the story of the Gospels, but more importantly listen closely. The resurrection story is part of God's story in history. Now. Here's where I need you to join me now.

Okay, kind of hang with me now. Wake up. Okay. Here we go. Ready? All right. This is awesome. We have as Christians something that the world does not have. We have the testimony of the God who Condescended to reveal himself to us the all-powerful Sovereign mighty God has stepped into history and he has spoken to us.

He's told us what he's like and he's told us what he's doing. Listen closely to this. We live in a culture at time where our children are being taught that they are nothing more than Bipedal meat-bone protoplasm bobbing on the surface of the cosmos.

Our kids are being taught that the universe is nothing more than time and chance acting on matter. There is no God who governs it. There is no purpose. They are merely stardust in a universe that does not care about them.

All that is above us is Sky. No justice ahead of us. It's all sound and fury. Signifying nothing. It's just stuff moving around. There's no meaning. There's no purpose. Richard Dawkins says in his book River out of Eden famous militant atheist.

He says there is no good. There is no evil. There is only blind and pitiless indifference. Dr. Will Provine the professor of biology at Cornell University a neo-darwinian Micromutation macro evolutionist says this there is no Imminent morality.

What's that mean? It's an illusion. There's no morality. There's no ought he says you live you die and you are gone. You are absolutely gone when you die. That's what our children are being taught today, and we know the real story.

Amen. God in the scriptures says this about himself. He says I declare the end from the beginning. That God and Daniel does according to his will in the host of heaven and and Among the inhabitants of the earth.

No one can stay his hand and say what have you done? We know the text. I hope you know it. I hope you know it and you share it with each other. Romans chapter 8 verse 28. God causes what's all Things to work together for good to those who love God those who are the called according to his purpose.

God is sovereign. There is no maverick molecule in the entire universe. God is absolutely sovereign and what you need to know is what the Apostle Paul Highlighted in 1st Corinthians 15. Do you remember when he was saying this he said according?

To the scriptures in accordance with the scriptures in accordance with the scriptures. Why am I saying this listen? You need to understand that the resurrection of the Son of God Was not a plan B in God's story.

Why when we were singing the song up here a little bit ago. Hosanna Hosanna. Why on Palm Sunday were the Jews laying down those palms as Jesus came into Jerusalem? Lowly riding on a donkey which was by the way the fulfillment of prophecy.

Why were they so excited? Hosanna Hosanna. Here's why because God had spoken to them about his control of history his story what he was going to accomplish. Listen the entire story of Jesus life and ministry death and resurrection is God's plan in history he sovereignly wields the universe.

He controls every detail in The story of Jesus and brothers and sisters in your life and mine. You sit in here today. We are in this room today as trophies of God's covenant faithfulness of what he was going to do in history.

He promised to send Messiah to save God's story. Listen God's Story told us every detail about Jesus necessary to know him. Isaiah chapter 9 verses 6 through 7 a monotheistic Jew 700 years before Jesus walks the earth in his earthly ministry.

Says that what's this a son is coming a child's going to be given to us and his name will be wonderful counselor al-gibbor the Mighty God the father of eternity.

Well brothers and sisters.

Who's the only eternal being in existence? Are you whispering or are we talking to each other today? Okay, I Will not hurt you. Okay. Who's the only. This is like the theology 101. This is the first thing you learn.

There's only one God. Let's try it again. Okay, we'll pretend like that didn't happen. Okay, we'll cut that out of the video so that you don't look bad. All right. All right. Who is the only eternal being in existence?

There you go. Only God. And watch a monotheistic Jew who recites in his morning and evening prayers. Shema Yisrael Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh Echad. Hear O Israel the Lord our God. The Lord is one there is only one God.

He says 700 years before Jesus that there's a son coming a child coming. Who is the mighty God. God's coming to save. God's coming to save. The Bible clearly teaches that Abraham was going to have offspring as numerous as the stars.

That's you by the way through faith. The Bible says in Genesis 49 10 that one is coming who will have the obedience of the nations. The Bible says in Psalm chapter 2 the father says to the son a Long time before Jesus ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance.

Daniel 7 13 through 14 Daniel says he's looking in the night visions and one like a son of man was coming in the clouds of heaven and he came Up to the ancient of days and was presented before him and to him was given Dominion glory and a kingdom that all the people's nations and men of every language Might serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away and his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.

Brothers and sisters quick question. How many of you guys. And this by the way, just raise your hand don't feel embarrassed. Okay. How many of you guys? What are you would identify as someone that is?

Ethnically Jewish in descent. Raise your hand. Okay, so go ahead. So keep your hand up, sir. Okay, two.

Three four.

Four.

People in this room who identify as ethnically Jewish and. An entire room you put your hand down now. Thank you, sir. Okay, and an entire room full of people who are descendants of Abraham by faith in Jesus who love and worship the Lord God of Israel because of Jesus.

That was part of God's story. God promised to send Messiah who would bring redemption to the ends of the earth. The knowledge of God would cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. Salvation forgiveness because of this Messiah that was God's story.

So when we talk about the resurrection of Jesus, we have to talk about it in terms of watch.

God.

Promised Messiah dying rising. Forgiving salvation. If you come against God's Word. Bible says you're reduced to a fool. The fool says in his heart there is no God. The Bible doesn't say the great intellect an erudite philosopher says in his heart.

There is no God. It says this you say there's no God you're reduced to foolishness. And by the way, that's not name-calling that's a moral indictment of a fool. We got to address though the unbelievers challenge to the miracle of the resurrection.

Are you ready for this? Let's do it. Okay. All right. Here we go. The unbelievers challenged to the resurrection of Jesus. I say that's not possible. It's a miracle miracles don't happen and we have to address what the Bible says about the unbeliever first.

The Unbeliever’s Suppression of Truth and the Christian Apologetic

Romans chapter 1 verse 18 and on clearly describes that watch. Unbelievers are only pretending. It says that we know God. Romans 1 18 it says very clearly the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven.

Against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness Suppress the truth for that which is known about God is evident within them for God has made it evident To them. God has shown it to them.

So what's that say? Listen closely listen in Romans 1 18. It says that we suppress the truth of God in Unrighteousness and that word suppression is very much like the game of whack-a-mole. You know whack-a-mole.

I hate whack-a-mole. I always cheat. Because it's so frustrating and it's the thing my kids want to play, right? But whack-a-mole is interesting because the one thing pops up and you have to smash it down, right?

But when you smash this one down this one comes up and you smash this one and then two more pop up over here. And you're smashing them down. What do you have to do to keep those moles down? You have to keep suppressing them.

Actively, they don't go down on their own without you pushing them down. Suppression of truth and what the Bible says is that we all know God. But we're such rebels that what we do is we suppress the truth of God and unrighteousness.

Our problem listen, listen our problem with God's Word with his existence is not is Not a lack of evidence for God. It's not a lack of light. It's a suppression of truth and the Bible says that the creation itself in Romans 1.

Even the creation itself is preaching to us about God to the degree that every single one of us is left.

Before God.

Without a defense. Without an excuse. And the word is ready. On Apollo gate use. On Apollo gate use. Sound kind of familiar Christian apologetics. A reason defense. First Peter 315. Peter says this. Every Christian set Across apart Christ as Lord in your hearts always being ready to give an apologia.

A reason defense. To everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that's within you. Do it with gentleness and reverence. And watch this. Peter says this to you Christian. Be ready with an apologia. Be ready with a reason defense.

To everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that's within you. And God says in Romans 1 the Unbeliever who rejects him the unbeliever who switches him for an idol will stand before God knowing God suppressing the truth about him.

Without an apologetic. Without a defense. What's the problem with unbelievers who don't know God. Ultimately they're rebels, but we have to think about something for a moment. The Christian is supposed to be standing on God's Word.

Amen. The unbeliever is supposed to be standing on their unbelieving world view. And you think about something just for a moment about the miracle of the resurrection. Christians believe in a sovereign God who carries the universe along to its intended destination.

So as Christians, we believe the human beings are more than protoplasm. Amen. Not many of you said amen to that. So I'm worried about this room. So we believe that everyone's in the image of God. You're in the image of God.

I'm in the image of God. We have inherent value and dignity and worth because we're made in the image of God. The universe is not Time and chance acting on matter. God Sovereignly wields the stars. He controls everything in the universe.

And the history is what he makes it to be.

For his glory.

We live in a universe that can be clocked because God sovereignly controls it that's our position. Amen. Jesus said there's two kinds of people one a fool one a wise person there are two kinds of foundations a rock and sands and there are two destinations one is Desolation and one actually makes it through the storm and Jesus said you have to build your life upon the rock Of his words, and if you don't you're on sinking Sands and as Christians we stand on the rock.

God has spoken. We stand on his word his testimony his revelation of history and amazingly the unbeliever says miracles are stupid and you're dumb for believing him and They stand in a worldview. Interestingly that says this all there is is time and chance acting on matter.

We're just bipedal protoplasm in a meaningless universe. We don't know that tomorrow will be like today things can switch around Instantly because we're just stardust in a cosmically purple at purposeless universe.

You following me and Then the unbeliever says hey. That can't happen a man can't rise from the dead because this universe can be clocked. There's laws in this universe and that miracle violates the laws of the universe.

Wait a minute. It displays something doesn't it. The unbeliever is in a game of whack-a-mole. He just exposed something and that is that in order to argue against the resurrection as a miracle He has to sneak off of his worldview.

Over into yours borrow things that work only in the Christian worldview in order to argue against the Christian worldview. Think about that.

The.

Unbeliever is suppressing the truth and unrighteousness. He can't help being the image of God that he is living in God's universe because how does he live? Does he live like he's only stardust in a purposeless universe?

That's time and chance acting on matter.

No.

He lives as though the universe is law like can be dependent upon and that he can actually engage in science. And he looks at the miracle of the resurrection. He says impossible miracles don't happen.

And amazingly He just displayed his suppression of truth because as a Christian we're supposed to look at the resurrection of Jesus and say that's crazy. Miracles like that don't happen. Do they. That's nuts.

This universe is carried along. It's law like it's uniform. Christians are the ones Because we stand on God's Word that are supposed to look at the miracle of the resurrection and say.

It's.

That's crazy. This universe doesn't work like that. It's law like God's sovereign over it men. Don't rise from the dead. God's doing something. God's doing something to save this doesn't. This doesn't make sense.

Listen, if atheism were true naturalism were true, then we shouldn't be surprised at all. That men are rising from the dead because crazy things happen in this universe. I. The miracle of the resurrection is the same guy that believes that fish became philosophers.

They believe that non-moral matter became moral and all of a sudden started being morally indignant when people steal their car stereo. The unbeliever says oh, there's no good. There's no evil. It's only blind and pitiless indifference in a universe.

It doesn't care and then they say hey, what'd you say to me? And they get morally indignant when someone offends them. Unbelievers get upset and shed tears over tragedies and school shootings. Brothers and sisters, that's a suppression of truth.

They're not supposed to really be upset about it because all we are is stardust is sound and fury signifying nothing in Order for the unbeliever to argue against the resurrection. He has to leave his worldview borrow from the Christian one in order to make sense of it.

They until one of my favorites favorites apologists ever said that the unbeliever is very much like a small child. Who smacks his father in the face? He's dependent upon his father to hold him in his lap to smack him or he couldn't reach.

The unbeliever in order to argue against the resurrection has to leave his worldview. Borrow from ours to make sense of it. Let's talk the Messianic prophecies. You need to know about the resurrection.

The Messianic Prophecies of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection

God promised us everything about Jesus life his death his resurrection his ministry his person. Long before Jesus comes the who is in your Bible who is coming. Isaiah 9 6 through 7. It's God himself that's coming to save us from our sins.

Where he's coming from. Micah chapter 5. Oh little town of. The Messiah is coming from Bethlehem. Bethlehem. They knew it so well that when Jesus comes in his ministry. They think he's from Nazareth because that's where he was raised and they say no.

He can't be the Messiah because the Messiah comes from Bethlehem. All that you should have asked him. Where were you born, right? He's born in Bethlehem. But interestingly Micah 5 also says the Messiah coming from Bethlehem.

Watch his goings forth are from old. Yay, even from eternity. Again who is the only eternal being in the universe? There you go much better that time. Okay, God's coming from Bethlehem long before he comes.

Daniel chapter 9 Tells you when the Messiah is coming. Daniel 9 says the Messiah is going to come. Listen. He's going to be cut off. Which is to die a violent death and then the second temple is going to be destroyed.

Brothers and sisters the second temple in history. We know as a fact was destroyed in 70 AD the Roman armies after a three and a half year war. Set fire to the temple took the temple apart one stone off of another it was destroyed.

But brothers and sisters long before Jesus came the Bible said Messiah had to die. And then the second temple will be destroyed if Jesus isn't the Messiah. There is no Messiah. He is the Messiah. He died and he rose again according to the Scriptures and next what would take place is identified clearly in our Bibles and there's so much to say and I'm already out of time.

But I don't care is it okay with you guys.

Okay.

Because I know I have to just go over there anyways, and I have time so I I got you for as long as I want. Okay until they shut me down and then we're just we'll talk outside. Okay, so the what is described in our Bible I want you to see it Isaiah 53.

Isaiah 53 and the Suffering, Death, and Vindication of the Messiah

That's in your Old Testament go there quickly. We're just going to read off of this passage to show you what that in accordance with the Scriptures part means. Isaiah 53 get there quickly. Isaiah 53. This is a text that's written about 700 years before Jesus comes and this is amazing as you get there I'll tell you something a little background here.

Isaiah 53 is so clearly Identifying Jesus his life his ministry what he's going to accomplish that people used to say. That this passage was squeezed into the text after the time of Jesus because it's so clearly identifies Jesus until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Where a little shepherd boy named Mohammed was throwing down rocks into some caves he heard something crash. He goes into there. He finds the pots with scrolls pretty awesome finds in the late 1940s and in those pots was a scroll of Isaiah that is dated to 200 years before Jesus life and ministry and guess what was in Isaiah.

Isaiah 53 how you like them apples? Isaiah 53 now let's go to the text. I want you to see it before you do go above a little bit to Isaiah 52 verse 13. Listen closely behold my servant shall act wisely.