Sunday Notes: Easter

• Luke 23:50-56
  • Jesus is executed and His body taken by __________
    • Interesting that his incarnation into this world was a virgin’s womb and His resurrection also from a pure place – a virgin tomb.
• Matthew 28:1
  • Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:1-2
    • The Jewish Sabbath begins at sunset on ____________ and ends in the evening on ____________ which is why there was a day between the death and the resurrection.
• Matthew 28:2-4
  • Mark 16:3-5; Luke 24:2-4
    • Who caused the earthquake, sent the angels, and opened the tomb?

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• Matthew 28:5-7
  • Mark 16:6-7; Luke 24:2-4
    • What was the instruction given by the angels to those early morning visitors?

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• Matthew 28:8
  • Mark 16:8; Luke 24:8-9
• Matthew 28:9-10
  • Mark 16:9-12; Luke 24:13-24; Mark 16:13; Luke 24:10-11; John 20:3-18
    • Would you have believed if you heard that the man you watched die was alive and roaming around?

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• What is your faith without the resurrection?
  
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• Matthew 28:11-15
  • Why would Satan weave lies into the narrative of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection?
    
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• Matthew 28:16-20
  • Mark 16:14-20; Luke 24:35-53; John 20:19-31
    • Those early disciples believed in Jesus
      • That He lived
      • That He died
      • That He rose
      • That He ascended alive to heaven.
    • Do you believe these things?
      • Do you truly believe these are facts of actual events that took place in the world?
• Communion – Remembering the grace of Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians 11:23-29
    • (1Co 11:23 ESV) For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
    • (1Co 11:24 ESV) and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
    • (1Co 11:25 ESV) In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
    • (1Co 11:26 ESV) For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
    • (1Co 11:27 ESV) Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.
    • (1Co 11:28 ESV) Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
    • (1Co 11:29 ESV) For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.