Do you realize that Jesus came to rescue you?In this message, Pastor Jamie Nunnally shares the hope-filled, awesome message that was lived out on this earth through Jesus Christ.
The cross is Jesus' death for me, but the empty grave is Jesus' life for me.
The cross gets me into heaven, but the empty grave gets heaven into me.
The cross reveals Jesus as savior, but the empty grave reveals Jesus as king.
The cross paid for my sin, the empty grave means that the payment was accepted.
Resurrection changes our whole outlook on life.
1 Corinthians 15:54-55 NLT
We don't have to be afraid of death anymore. Jesus' resurrection marked the death of death.
What is an Easter Egg?
An "easter egg" is a hidden message, image or feature in a video game, movie, or TV show.
The Old Testament has around 300 prophetic easter eggs about Jesus before Jesus was born. These are things like: Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, He will be preceded by a Messenger, He will enter Jerusalem on a donkey, He will be betrayed by a friend, He will be sold for 30 pieces of silver, He will be silent before His accusers, He will be executed by crucifixion.
Peter Stoner, a science and mathematics professor, wrote a book called "Science Speaks" where he and his students used the science of probability to calculate the likelihood that someone would fulfill these Messianic prophecies.
Stoner found that the chance that any man might have fulfilled eight Messianic prophecies is 1 in 100 quadrillion.
The odds of fulfilling 16 messianic prophecies are 1 in 10 to the 45th power.
What about 48 prophecies? Those odds are 1 in 10 to the 157th power. (The number of atoms in the entire universe is somewhere between 10 to the78th power and 10 to the 82nd power.)
The Father sent Jesus to rescue you.
1 John 4:14. "We have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world."
The resurrection of Jesus forces humanity confront the fact that we are the object of God's affection.
Ephesians 2:4-5 "But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's grace that you have been saved!)"
Romans 6:7-10 (MSG) – "What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us."
Sin has a price tag, but Jesus paid the bill.
Have you been rescued by Jesus?