The Resurrection of the Son of God

~ Romans 1:1-4 ~

God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life

Romans 1:1-4

Found on page 939 in our guest Bibles.

Today’s Scripture:

Do you truly believe that happiness

in life is impossible

?

“This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life. I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have since I was a little boy.…!

“I do feel that’s it’s a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.”!

“My relationship with death remains the same.!I’m strongly against it.”

Is death the end

or just the beginning ?

The Resurrection of the Son of God

~ Romans 1:1-4 ~

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called

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to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets inthe holy Scriptures, concerning hisSon, who was descended from

…David according to the flesh and

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was declared to be the Son of Godin power according to the Spirit ofholiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord….”

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God!

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called

Romans 1:1

to be an apostle…

“They [the churches of Judea] only were

hearing it said, ‘He who used to persecute

us is now preaching the faith he once tried

to destroy.’”~ The Apostle Paul in

Galatians 1:23

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called

Romans 1:1-4

to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets inthe holy Scriptures, concerning hisSon….

“Surely there is not a righteous man on earth

who does good and never sins.”

~ King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 7:20

“For the wages of sin is death…”

~ The Apostle Paul in Romans 6:23

“I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to

heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I

have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even

close.” ~ Michael Bloomberg Former NYC Mayor

“For the wages of sin is death, but

the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our

Lord.”~ The Apostle Paul in Romans 6:23

“To him all the prophets bear witness that

everyone who believes in him receives the

forgiveness of sins through his name.”

~ The Apostle Peter in Acts 10:43

according to the flesh…

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…who was descended from David

according to the flesh and was

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declared to be the Son of Godin power…

…who was descended from David

“Fancy writing like this to Rome of all places, the

greatest city of the world at the time, the home of

the most powerful man in the world, the Caesar,

whose official titles included, ‘son of god’,

whose birthday was hailed as ‘good news’…

“…and who claimed the allegiance, loyalty, of the greatest empire the world had ever seen! But Paul

knew exactly what he was doing. Jesus is the true king, the world’s rightful

Lord, and it is vital that the Christians in Rome know

this and live by it.”

according to the flesh and was

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declared to be the Son of Godin power according to the Spirit ofholiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord….”

…who was descended from David

The historical fact of the resurrection of the Son of God

is the “good-est news” the world could ever hope to hear.

Summary

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“I think at best the universe is indifferent…so we create a fake world for ourselves, and we exist within that fake world…a world that, in

fact, means nothing at all, when you step back.

“It’s meaningless. But it’s important that we create some sense of meaning, because no

perceptible meaning exists for anybody.”

“The idea that Jesus truly did rise form the dead is

indeed the most dangerous idea on Earth, for it tells us that not all

men stay dead. Given the inevitability of death, this truth is the greatest news that mortal human beings could ever hope to hear.”

“…if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you

will be saved.”

~ The Apostle Paul in Romans 10:9

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“These men who have turned the world upside down have come here

also…and they are acting against all the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is

another king, Jesus.”~ Acts 17:6-8

“If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not –

nothing else matters.”

~ Jaroslav Pelikan Yale University

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