1. HE IS NOT HERE, FOR HE HAS RISEN, AS HE SAID Mat 28:5-7

2. And the angel answered and said to the women, Do not fear, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. (6) He is not here, for He has risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. (7) And go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead. And, behold, He goes before you into Galilee. There you shall see Him. Lo, I have told you.

3. Introduction: Easter Sunday Worship on Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter Sunday means the Resurrection Sunday On Easter Sunday, we celebrate Christ’s resurrection and our hope in Him.

4. The First Easter Sunday Mary Magdalene, Mary of Jacob and Salome Gathered just before dawn to anoint Jesus. Luke 24:1-8

5. He is not here He is not lost He is not among the dead He is not what they (we) expected.

6. For He has risen The World is skeptical ◦ CNN, BBC, Phycologists, Reductionists, even Biblical academicians ◦ Critical issues: Yet Nothing is impossible to God ◦ Can’t refute the first witnesses who tells the truth ◦ No one has the right to change the truth ◦ Biases are foolishness

7. 1Co 2:14-16 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (15) But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one. (16) For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

8. As He said Mat 16:21 From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

9. As He said: What is it to us? Joh 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me. Joh 17:26 And I made known to them Your name, and will make it known, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.

10. We Will Resurrect 1Co 15:20 “But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit of those who slept. ” Jesus was the first to resurrect We shall resurrect like Jesus on the Easter

11. Conclusion He is not here, for He has risen, as He said