Sunrise Service Easter Sunday on April 20, 2014

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• One Day – God created the world
  
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  • He created it in all its beauty a glorious world
    
  • It was a perfect world and He looked on it and said, “It is good.”
    
  
  
  
• One Day – Sin entered into that world
  
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  • With it, came spiritual darkness, disease, deceit that would bring about death for that world and everything in it. Rom. 6:23
    
  
  
  
• One Day – God sent His Son into the world
  
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  • Born of a virgin, in lowly circumstances
    
  • He sent His Son not to condemn the world but to save it. John 3:16-17
    
  • This gift God sent would bring light and life.
    
  • One day God’s Son stood and looked out over a large crowd
    
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    • He had compassion on them, He miraculously fed them
      
    • He healed some, he blessed some, he delivered some, he lovingly rebuked some, he taught them
      
    
    
    
  
  
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  • Jesus LIVED to LOVE .
    
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    • 2 Thessalonians 2:16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• One Day – God sacrificed His Son for the world
  
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  • One day God’s Son stood before Pilate who pronounced Him guilty and sentenced him to crucifixion to the delight of crowd
    
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    • He was mocked and cursed. He was slapped and beaten.
      
    • He was led up Calvary’s mount where He was nailed, hands and feet, to a cross.
      
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      • Hands that had touched lepers, blessed children, healed blinded eyes and crippled hands and feet
        
      • He looked out on those who hated and despised him and in a last act of love spoke,
        
      • “Father forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”
        
      
      
      
    
    
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    • Jesus DIED to SAVE .
      
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      • 1 Timothy 1:15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners
        
      
      
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• One Day – God forsook His Son alone in the world
  
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  • One Day they laid the lifeless body of God’s Son in a borrowed tomb
    
  • He took the sins of the world, my sin – your sin and he was buried with them
    
  • He was there one day, then two, and then three, just as he had said he would be
    
  
  
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  • Jesus was BURIED to CARRY our sins far away.
    
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    • Psalm 103:12 He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• One Day – God raised His Son
  
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  • One day, early one Sunday morning, God’s Son rolled away the stone that was placed there to keep Him in
    
  • Death could not hold him, the grave could not keep him
    
  • Jesus came out of that grave having conquered death and the grave
    
  • He was alive, alive, alive forevermore. He declared that we are justified, that is, made righteous in the sight of God.
    
  
  
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  • Jesus’ RISING brought RIGHTEOUSNESS freely forever.
    
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    • Titus 3:7 NLT Because of his grace he declared us righteous and gave us confidence that we will inherit eternal life.