Sermon Notes April 20, 2025

Posted on Apr 18, 2025 in General |

Resurrection Sunday                                              “His Final Week But Our New Beginning” 

IQ Quiz                                                       

  1. How long did the Hundred Years’ War last?
  2. Which country makes Panama hats?
  3. From which animal do we get catgut?
  4. In what month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
  5. What is a camel-hair brush made of ?
  6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
  1. Where are Chinese gooseberries from? 

Current Events Quiz

  1. President Trump backed away from a major piece of his tariff plan this last week, pausing the reciprocal import taxes he had placed on dozens of countries. Which country was the exception? Algeria, China, Japan, Britain
  2. Markets shot up last week after Trump announced his tariff pause. On Wednesday, the S&P 500 rose 9.5% —  it’s the biggest one day gain since when? 2020, 1982, 2008, 1930
  3. At least 221 people died last week after a roof of a nightclub collapsed during a concert in what Caribbean country? Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic 
  4. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, last week called for states to ban Fluoride in what? Aluminum Smelting, Drinking Water,  Soda, Mouth Wash 
  5. Which two universities won the men’s and women’s N.C.A.A. basketball championships last week? University of Florida, Houston University, University of Connecticut, Duke University
  6. A PG– rated comedic fantasy had the biggest opening box office for a video game adaptation. What game is it based on? Fortnite, Pokemon, Minecraft, Call of Duty 
  7. Scientists bred animals that carry genes of what species that went extinct 13,000 years ago? Dire wolf, Dodo bird, Golden toad, Woolly mammoth 

 

Luke 24:1-11, “On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you, while He was still with you in Galilee: 7 ”The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.” ’ 8 Then they remembered His words.9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.”

 

Luke 24:13-24, “Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles  from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus Himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing Him.17 He asked them, ‘What are you discussing together as you walk along?’ They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked Him, ‘Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?’19 ’What things?’ He asked. ‘About Jesus of Nazareth,’ they replied. ‘He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.  

21 but we had hoped that He was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find His body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said He was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.’” 

Luke 9:22, ”And He said, ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.’” 

Luke 18:31-33, ”Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, ‘We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock Him, insult Him and spit on Him; 33 they will flog Him and kill Him. On the third day He will rise again.’” 

Luke 18:34, ”The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what He was talking about.” 

Three Radical Ideas 

(A) The real problem of our world is our need to be __________    ____________________from all the things we’ve done that separates us from God. 

(B) The real nature of the Messiah… they didn’t see how a                _____________________________ would be of any value. 

Luke 24:25-27, ”He said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?’ 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.” 

See also Isaiah 53:1-12

Luke 24:28-34, ”As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if He were going farther. 29 But they urged Him strongly, ‘Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.’ So He went in to stay with them.30 When He was at the table with them, He took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?’ 33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, ‘It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.’

(C) The real ending of Friday… was on __________________.

 


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