Power of the Resurrection Dave Chae April 5, 2015

"I think in the secular world we're really bad at helping people have an encounter with the part which is in them which feels divine," he says. "I think it's amazing that humans can feel that because I think it's our wonderful biology.” Sanderson Jones – Leader of Sunday Assembly, an “Atheist Church”

C.S. Lewis “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;

Blaise Pascal “There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”

Samaritan Woman (Husband) Nicodemus (Good Deeds) Rich Young Ruler (Wealth) Abraham (One and only son)

How can we allow the resurrection of Jesus Christ fill our emptiness and fill our divine yearnings?

Philippians 3: But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.

I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Consider it all loss that we may know Christ

10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

Ephesians 1: I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead …

What now? 1.Ask Questions 2.Follow the light see where it leads 3.R & R (Repent & Receive)