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Because He Lives | Pastor Scott Lackey | Easter 2024

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38 “Why are you so disturbed?” he said. “Why do these questionings come up in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and feet; it really is me, myself. Touch me and see! Ghosts don’t have flesh and bones like you can see I have.” 40 With these words, he showed them his hands and feet. - Luke 24:38-40

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Jesus’ scars tell the story of victory over corruption

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13 So Pilate called the chief priests, the rulers and the people. 14 “You brought this man before me,” he said to them, “on the grounds that he was leading the people astray. Look here, then: I examined him in your presence and I found no evidence in him of the charges you’re bringing against him. 15 Nor did Herod; he sent him back to me. Look: there is no sign that he’s done anything to deserve death. 16 So I’m going to flog him and let him go.”  - Luke 23:13-16

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18 “Take him away!” they shouted out all together. “Release Barabbas for us!” 19 (Barabbas had been thrown into prison because of an uprising that had taken place in the city, and for murder.) 20 Pilate spoke to them again, with the intention of letting Jesus go, 21 but they shouted back, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” 22 “Why?” he said for the third time. “What’s he done wrong? I can’t find anything he’s done that deserves death, so I’m going to beat him and let him go.” 23 But they went on shouting out at the tops of their voices, demanding that he be crucified; and eventually their shouts won the day. 24 Pilate gave his verdict that their request should be granted. 25 He released the man they asked for, the one who’d been thrown into prison because of rebellion and murder, and gave Jesus over to their demands. - Luke 23:18-25

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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. - Matthew 11:28

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Jesus’ scars tell the story of victory over darkness and death

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44 By the time of the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land. 45 The sunlight vanished until the ninth hour. The veil of the Temple was ripped down the middle. 46 Then Jesus shouted out at the top of his voice, “Here’s my spirit, Father! You can take care of it now!” And with that he died. - Luke 23:44-46

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The centurion saw what happened, and praised God. “This fellow,” he said, “really was in the right.” - Luke 23:47

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So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up. - Galatians 6:9

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Jesus’ scars tell the story of God’s victorious new reality

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44 Then he said to them, “This is what I was explaining to you when I was still with you. Everything written about me in the law of Moses, and in the prophets and the Psalms, had to be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Bible. 46 “This is what is written,” he said. “The Messiah must suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and in his name repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, must be announced to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are the witnesses for all this. 49 Now, look: I’m sending upon you what my father has promised. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” - Luke 24:44-49

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The scars we pick up in the present will be redeemed for an eternal purpose.

Christus Victor | Pastor Scott Lackey

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For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. - John 3:16-17 (NET)

The cross of Jesus solidifies the victory of God over Satan, evil & death.

God loves & God gives

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. - 1 John 4:9-10

“I give you a new commandment—to love  one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another”. - John 13:34

This is why the Father loves me—because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. - John 10:17-18A

What then shall we say to all this? If God is for us, who is against us? God, after all, did not spare his own son; he gave him up for us all! - Romans 8:31-32B

Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father, - Galatians 1:3-4

God rescues

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.” He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” - Mark 10:35-36

They said to him, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.” - Mark 10:37

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Mark 10:45

Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.” - 1 Corinthians 2:7-9

"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign... to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever." - Dumbledore

Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.” - Matthew 26:39

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, - Romans 1:18

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie  and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. - Romans 1:24-26A

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. - Romans 1:28-31

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, - 2nd Corinthians 5:21A

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” - Matthew 27:46B

He has destroyed what was against us, a certificate of indebtedness expressed in decrees opposed to us. He has taken it away by nailing it to the cross. Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.  - Colossians 2:14-15

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity,  so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil), and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death. - Hebrews 2:14-15

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose  the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil. - 1 John 3:8

Living the Cross | Pastor Scott Lackey

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The Victory of the Cross | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Overcoming Leadership Limitations | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Discover your Gift | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Leadership lessons from Jesus | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Leading with Confidence, Consistency and Care | Pastor Scott Lackey

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Is God to blame for Evil & Suffering? | Pastor Scott Lackey

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