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April Scripture Memory
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. — Romans 8:34
Reflection Quote
James Denny expresses the relation between Jesus’ death and resurrection in this way:
There can be no salvation from sin unless there is a living Savior: this explains the emphasis laid by the apostle (that is, Paul) on the resurrection. But the living One can be a Savior only because he has died: this explains the emphasis laid on the cross. The Christian believes in a living Lord, or he could not believe at all; but he believes in a living Lord who died an atoning death, for no other can hold the faith of a soul under the doom of sin.
To sum up, the gospel includes both the death and the resurrection of Jesus, since nothing would have been accomplished by his death if he had not been raised from it. Yet the gospel emphasizes the cross, since it was there that the victory was accomplished. The resurrection did not achieve our deliverance from sin and death, but has brought us an assurance of both. It is because of the resurrection that our “faith and hope are in God” (I Peter 1:3, 21).
The Cross of Christ, John R. W. Stott
Welcome, Prayer, and Call to Worship
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. — 1 Corinthians 15:3-5, 54-57
Christ the Lord is Risen Today #277
Verse 1. "Christ the Lord is ris'n today," Alleluia!, sons of men and angels say; Alleluia!, Raise your joys and triumphs high; Alleluia!, Sing ye heav'ns, and earth, reply. Alleluia!
Verse 2. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Alleluia! Christ has burst the gates of hell: Alleluia!, Death in vain forbids his rise; Alleluia! Christ has opened paradise. Alleluia!
Verse 3. Lives again our glorious King; Alleluia!, Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!, Once he died, our souls to save; Alleluia!, Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!
Verse 4. Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!, Foll'wing our exalted Head; Alleluia!, Made like him, like him we rise: Alleluia!, Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. Alleluia!
Verse 5. Hail, the Lord of earth and heav'n! Alleluia!, Praise to thee by both be giv'n; Alleluia!, Thee we greet triumphant now; Alleluia!, Hail, the Resurrection, thou! Alleluia!
Affirmation of Faith
Westminster Larger Catechism (Question 52)
Q. 52. How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
A. Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death, (of which it was not possible for him to be held,) and having the very same body in which he suffered, with the essential properties thereof, (but without mortality, and other common infirmities belonging to this life,) really united to his soul, he rose again from the dead the third day by his own power; whereby he declared himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied divine justice, to have vanquished death, and him that had the power of it, and to be Lord of quick and dead: all which he did as a public person, the head of his church, for their justification, quickening in grace, support against enemies, and to assure them of their resurrection from the dead at the last day.
Prayer of Confession
Lord Jesus, you have risen from the dead revealing your power and authority over every aspect of creation. Through your resurrection, you have subdued and conquered sin, death, and the devil. There is nothing that can stand against you and your kingdom.
Lord Jesus, we confess, even though we are your children, we fail to find power and fulfillment in your incredible resurrection. We live like children who are enslaved by the bondage of sin and death. We have missed the hope that you bring, the hope that one day all things will be made new.
Lord Jesus we cannot know or experience this hope on our own. We need the Holy Spirit to transform our hearts and to give us the true joy of you. May your resurrection power and life propel us to live for your kingdom.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Assurance of Pardon
Titus 3:4-7 - But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Pastoral Prayer
IPC Family
Mike & Donnalisa Cornejo
(Alina, Tarryn, Gabriel)
Nisa Crutchfield
DeLand Community
Stetson University
Daytona State College
Nations
Nueva Providencia Bible Institute,
Medellin, Colombia
Christ is Risen Indeed
Verse 1. How can it be the One who died has borne our sin through sacrifice, to conquer every sting of death? Sing, sing “Hallelujah!”
Verse 2. For joy awakes as dawning light when Christ’s disciples lift their eyes. Alive He stands, their friend and King: Christ, Christ He is risen!
Refrain: Christ is risen, He is risen indeed! Oh sing “Hallelujah!” Join the chorus, sing with the redeemed: “Christ is risen, He’s risen indeed!”
Verse 3. Where doubt and darkness once had been, they saw Him and their hearts believed. But blessed are those who have not seen, yet sing “Hallelujah!”
Verse 4. The pow'r that raised Him from the grave now works in us to pow’rf’lly save; He frees our hearts to live His grace-- go, tell of His goodness.
Refrain (2 times)
Sermon Text
Luke 24:1-12
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” 8 And they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, 11 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.
Prayer
Sermon Outline
King Jesus: He has Risen!
I. Introduction
II. Revelation
III. Remember
IV. Rejoice
V. Reflections
Crown Him with Many Crowns #295
Verse 1. Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon his throne; hark! how the heav'nly anthem drowns all music but its own: awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee, and hail him as thy matchless King through all eternity.
Verse 2. Crown him the Lord of love; behold his hands and side, rich wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified: no angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends his burning eye at mysteries so bright.
Verse 3. Crown him the Lord of peace; whose pow'r a scepter sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed in prayer and praise: his reign shall know no end; and round his pierced feet fair flow'rs of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.
Verse 4. Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time; Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime: all hail, Redeemer, hail! for thou hast died for me: thy praise shall never, never fail throughout eternity.