2025-04-20 Sermon Notes

• They had invested so much into His ministry.
• They were so disappointed. They thought that Jesus would deliver Israel.
• They couldn't believe that Jesus would rise from the dead,
  • even though He predicted this many times.
  • even though they saw Him right in front of their eyes

• without sight of Jesus we are doomed.

• Genesis 1.3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
• Isaiah 45:22-24 "Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. They will say of me, 'There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.'" Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
• Hebrews 2.9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

• Christ and His message
• us when we say that Christ has spoken to us through His word.

• Every other leader and prophet dies, but Christ is risen and lives forever.

• But the deity of Christ did not and could not die, nor be separated from God.

• Jesus is not on a cross, nor is He in a tomb.
• Jesus lives, today, right now.
• Jesus lives for us and in us.
  • Colossians 1.27 to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

• That means that those who have never seen Christ are blind and dead.
• There are even those who are in the church who have called themselves Christians for several years and yet they have never truly seen Him because they are blinded to Him.
  • Why do you think it is that teenagers grow up in the Church and yet turn away as soon as they leave for college? It shows that they were living in darkness and hadn't seen Him the whole time.

• Hebrews 12.2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 2 Corinthians 3.18 But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

This Joy Leads to the Joy of Glory Forever

• Do you really think that we will be less glad when we see the risen Lord?
• He is our Savior.