Mountaintop Church
Easter Sunday | The Necessity of Christ, the Cross and the Resurrection
Pastor Rob Seagears
Locations & Times
Solomon's Campus
9213 Center St, Manassas, VA 20110, USA
Sunday 11:30 AM
Sunday 11:30 AM
Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ”8 And they remembered His words. , Luke 24:1-8The Necessity of Christ:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:16-18
The Necessity of the Cross
1. The Cross was necessary to fulfill God’s eternal plan
2. The Cross was Pay for Sin.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
3. The Cross was Save Us (You, and me). But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. Hebrews 2:8
The Necessity of the Resurrection:
1. The Resurrection was necessary to prove once and for all the power of God! “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 1 Cor 15:54
2. The Resurrection was necessary to provides irrefutable proof that He is the Savior of the world. “I am the resurrection and the life” John 11:25
3. The Resurrection was necessary to secure our Hope that all followers of Christ will be resurrected also to eternal life.
“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain” 1 Cor 15:58 “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ” Vs 6-7
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