Easter at New Life (Chantilly Sermon)
April 20, 2025
Find Comfort: Jesus Cares
Psalm 8:4 CSB – …what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him?
Luke 18:39-40 CSB – Then those in front told him to keep quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
40 Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to him. When he came closer, he asked him, 41 “What do you want me to do for you?”
Luke 18:41b CSB – “Lord,” he said, “I want to see.”
1 Peter 5:7 CSB – …casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.
Find Comfort: Jesus’ Gives Reasons for Calm
John 14:1 CSB – Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me.
- Disciples’ Reasons to Believe in Jesus
John 14:11 CSB – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believebecause of the works themselves.
John 8:58 CSB – Before Abraham was born, I am.
- We have MORE reasons to believe they did!
Solid evidence for the bodily resurrection of Jesus
Three books to consider:
Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace
The Case for Easter, Lee Strobel
The Case for the Resurrection, Gary Habermas
- Jesus died on the cross
- The news of Jesus resurrection spread rapidly
1 Corinthians 15:3-7 CSB – …Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day
- The empty tomb
- The changed lives of Jesus followers
Find Comfort: Your victory is sure!
John 14:2-3 CSB – In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.
“Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is.
Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say, landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign… – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Psalm 90:10 CSB – Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
1 Corinthians 4:17-18 CSB – Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
