Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
In the fourth sermon in the “Vintage Jesus” series, Pastor Mark provides biblical, circumstantial and historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus.
Jesus Christ. No one is more loved and hated than Jesus Christ.The name Jesus is derived from the Old Testament name Joshua,which means, “Yahweh God is salvation.” The title Christ means one
chosen and anointed by God to be the Messiah who delivers God’s
people.
Roughly two thousand years ago, Jesus was born in a dumpy, rural,hick town, not unlike those today where guys change their own oil,think pro wrestling is real, find women who chew tobacco sexy, and
eat a lot of Hot Pockets with their uncle-daddy. Jesus’ mom was a poor,unwed teenage girl who was mocked for claiming she conceived via the Holy Spirit. Most people thought she concocted a crazy story to coverthe “fact” she was knocking boots with some guy in the backseat of a car at the prom. Jesus was adopted by a simple carpenter named Joseph and spent the first thirty years of his life in obscurity, swinging a hammer with his dad.
Around the age of thirty, Jesus began a public ministry that included preaching, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, and befriending social misfits such as perverts, drunks, and thieves. Jesus’ ministry spanned
only three short years before he was put to death for declaring himself to be God. He died by shameful crucifixion like tens of thousands of people before and after him.
At first glance, Jesus’ résumé is rather simple. He never traveled more than a few hundred miles from his home. He never held a political office, never wrote a book, never married, never had sex, never attended
college, never visited a big city, and never won a poker tournament. He died both homeless and poor.
Nonetheless, Jesus is the most famous person in all of human history.More songs have been sung to him, artwork created of him, and books written about him than anyone who has ever lived. In fact, Jesus
looms so large over human history that we actually measure time by him; our calendar is divided into the years before and after his birth, noted as b.c. (“before Christ”) and a.d. (anno Domini, meaning “in the
year of the Lord”), respectively.
No army, nation, or person has changed human history to the degree that Jesus, the homeless man, has. Some two thousand years after he walked the earth, Jesus remains as hot as ever. In fact, as Paul
promised in 2 Corinthians 11:3–4, the opinions about Jesus are countless in seemingly every area of culture.
JESUS OF JESUS.
Who exactly is Jesus? Is he a good man or God, the half-brother of Lucifer or a prophet, liar or truth-teller, therapist or communist, stand-up comic or just my uber-fly, holy homeboy? So much has been said about Jesus that it only seems appropriate to let Jesus speak for himself.
Therefore, we will examine ten ways by which Jesus flatly said he is the
only God.
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