Tag / Resurrection of Jesus

by In Light Of The Cross

13: The Risen Lord-Sabbath School Lesson Teaching Plan

Prepared by William Earnhardt, for Sabbath School Class, September 28, 2024.

Main Theme: Jesus is risen and we are to take this message to all the world!

Read in Class: Mark 16:1-8 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-8. Define the common thread of these passages.

Study: How does what happened here change the world?

Apply: How certain are you that Jesus was really resurrected? How do you know? See How do we Know the Disciples Didn’t Just Make Everything Up?

Share: Your friend tells you that Sunday is the Biblical memorial to the resurrection. What do you tell your friend? See First Day Texts in the Bible, and The Biblical Memorial to the Resurrection. See also, Romans 6:3-6.

Review in Class: Mark 16:1-8. Ask the class if they notice anything this time they did not notice the first time they read this?

Study: How did the women first respond to what happened?

Apply: Why must we not keep silent about Jesus and what He has done? Who can you tell today about Jesus and the plan of salvation?

Share: Your friend asks you why the angel singles Peter while mentioning the message to the disciples? What do you tell your friend? Your friend also mentiones the women being concerned about the stone, only to find it already rolled away when they got there. Your friend asks if you have ever worried about something in the future, only to find God had already taken care of it by the time you got there? What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Mark 16:9-20. Have the class sunmarraize this passage.

Study: What do these verses add to the Resurrection story?

Apply: How can we protect ourselves from falling into the spiritual trap of doubt and unbelief? Why must we daily link ourselves to the risen Christ?

Share: Your friend asks you if God has ever done anything in your life or in your family’s life that you did not believe was possible or you had trouble beleving at first? What do you tell your friend?

Review in Class: Mark 16:14-20. Ask the class if they notice anything this time they did not notice the first time they read this?

Study:  What did Jesus say to His disciples when He appeared to them, and what do these words mean to us today?

Apply: Read Matthew 28:19-20. What words of comfort can and should we take from Jesus’ words?

Share: What specific good news from this week’s lesson will you be sharing with a friend this week?

by In Light Of The Cross

Glimpses of the Cross Day 21; Victory in Jesus

I am writing tonight from the beautiful Tampa Bay area.

I am writing tonight from the beautiful Tampa Bay area.

The story goes of a pastor who was changing trains at a train station. While waiting on his train, a man approached him with some religious literature, trying to witness to him about God. The pastor could not help but smell the alcohol on his breath. He asked the man if he was drinking. The man confessed yes. The pastor asked him how he could be sharing Jesus while he was drinking. The man told the pastor, that Jesus overcame so that he did not have to overcome, and that Jesus also died for him so he does not have to die. The pastor responded, “So Jesus overcame do you don’t have to?” “That’s right” the man said. “He did it all for me so I don’t have to.” The pastor asked another question. “So Jesus died so you don’t have to die to self?” The man nodded yes. The pastor then replied, ” Well if Jesus overcame so you don’t have to overcome, and died so you don’t have to die, then He also rose again and went back to heaven so you don’t have to do that either!”

The Good news is Jesus overcame so we can experience victory in our lives too!

 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.  2 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV

Jesus died so that our sinful ways can be crucified with Him.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20 NKJV

Jesus rose again and is in heaven so we can rise from the dead and be in heaven too!

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,  even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),  and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Ephesians 2:5-6 NKJV

Jesus’ victory over sin is to be a reality in our lives. Jesus’ death to self is to be a reality in our lives, and Jesus’ victory over the death and the grave is to be a reality in our lives as well!

Because I live, you will live also. John 14:19 NKLJV

To the believer, death is but a small matter. Christ speaks of it as if it were of little moment. “If a man keep My saying, he shall never see death,” “he shall never taste of death.” To the Christian, death is but a sleep, a moment of silence and darkness. The life is hid with Christ in God, and “when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.” John 8:51, 52; Colossians 3:4. –Desire of Ages, Page 787