This project could not be completed without the love and support of so many individuals. First of all, I am grateful to the Lord Jesus Christ for taking on human flesh, living a sinless life, dying in my place, and rising from the dead. This project could never happen if I did not have faith that he had performed these acts in history.
Second, I am grateful to the saints of Grace Bible Church, who have been a tremendous blessing to me. Their eagerness to dig deeper into God's Word gave me confidence that a project of this nature would be successful. Additionally, he was always quick to respond to emails and answer any questions I had, even during the semester he was on break.
My prayer is that God will use this project to grow the people of Grace Bible Church to share their faith more boldly so that God gets more glory.
INTRODUCTION
Lim, »Evangelism in the Early Church«, v Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments, ed. Razkrivanje korenin antisemitizma v evangelijski zgodbi o Jezusovi smrti (San Francisco: HarperOne. Dodd, »The Appearances of the Risen Christ: A Study in the Form Criticism of the Gospels«, v More New Testament Studies (Grand) Brzice: Eerdmans.
Kaiser Jr., "The Identity and Mission of the 'Servant of God,'" in The Gospel According to Isaiah 53, ed. One of the clearest expressions of this principle is found in the Day of Atonement (Lev 16). He is the only one who recorded Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant who was forgiven a.
The first aim was to assess the understanding of the historical arguments for believing in the resurrection of Jesus and the evangelical faith among GBC members. Of the nine survey questions using a five-point Likert scale (strongly agree, disagree, undecided, agree, strongly agree), most responses averaged around 3 (undecided). In fact, Paul uses these terms elsewhere in the same letter when speaking of the Lord's Supper.
In the first part of the sermon I focused on the historical evidence for Christ's crucifixion.
Quietly Buried.” Why does God seem distant or hidden? Other than the problem of evil, the problem of God’s hiddenness is perhaps the greatest
Furthermore, I considered the shameful nature of the crucifixions and decided that the early church would never have invented this story. Finally, I examined the crucifixion process itself to give the church a sense of what Jesus endured that day and to prove that Jesus could not survive the brutal treatment. After reviewing the evidence for the crucifixion, I turned our attention to the question of why God would undergo a brutal crucifixion.
As was true of the entire series, the purpose of this message was to equip the church to share the Gospel with unbelievers. My hope is that when faced with that opposition in the future, the church will be able to lead people to the cross and share God's love to the world. In this sermon, I examined the phrase, "he was buried." In doing so, I led the church through the evidence for Jesus being buried in a tomb.
Before doing so, I introduced the church to the objection that Jesus would never have received a proper burial. I spent the rest of our time focusing on this question by thinking more deeply about Jesus' burial. The Jewish leaders could have easily exposed the myth by presenting Jesus' body to the public.
They told everyone that the disciples stole the body and implicitly admitted that the tomb was empty. Paul does not mention the women in his list of eyewitnesses, but he gives a long list of others, including Peter, the twelve disciples, Jesus' brother James, over five hundred people at a time, and Paul himself. In the second part of the message, I emphasized the transformation of Peter, James, and Paul.
I explained that the best explanation for their transformations is that they saw Jesus come back from the dead. Finally, as I concluded the message, I asked the congregation to consider how Christianity spread in the early days. Mostly, Christianity spread because the people who met Jesus told others about their experience with Jesus.
Predicted Hundreds of Years in Advance.” In this fifth sermon, I examined how the Old Testament points toward Jesus’s eventual death and resurrection
In My Place.” In this final sermon, I focused on the phrase “for
The first objective was to assess the understanding of the historical case for belief in the resurrection of Jesus and evangelistic practices among GBC members. After all, providing evidence for the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus is a defense of the Christian faith. At the end of the series, the participants will be better able to share historical arguments for believing in Jesus.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to better share the historical arguments for believing in Jesus. Now we can spend a six-week series focusing specifically on the reliability of the Gospels. Take, for example, Jesus' inability to perform miracles in Nazareth because of the people's lack of faith.
Each of these four points proves that the content of the Gospels is reliably preserved. You see, God worked through suffering to accomplish a greater purpose—the salvation of the world. Put yourself in the shoes of Mary Magdalene - one of the women who followed Jesus.
Because the resurrection proved Jesus' claim that he was the Son of God who came to take away the sins of the world. The second week we looked at the phrase "Christ died." We found that Jesus' death by crucifixion is one of the best attested events in the ancient world. This morning, we will examine the phrases, "he arose" and "he appeared." In many ways, this message marks the climax of the series.
You see, none of the Jewish leaders argued that his body was still in the grave. Although Peter was one of the original Twelve, the Gospels record that he cowardly denied Jesus three times during Jesus' trial. Watergate embroiled twelve of the most powerful men in the world - and they couldn't lie for three weeks.
Regardless, the Nazareth decree demonstrates that the Christians boldly proclaimed the story of Jesus' resurrection all the way to the imperial capital. No wonder we live in the most miserable and terrifying society in the history of the world.
