Is Jesus a Guru? A Great Prophet? One of Many Important Spiritual Leaders?

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2 Baha u llah Confucius Lao Tzu Buddha Moses Is Jesus a Guru? A Great Prophet? One of Many Important Spiritual Leaders? Muhammad?

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5 JOSEPHUS AD ABOUT THIS TIME THERE LIVED JESUS, A WISE MAN. FOR HE WAS ONE WHO WROUGHT SURPRISING FEATS AND WAS A TEACHER OF SUCH PEOPLE AS ACCEPT THE TRUTH GLADLY. HE WON OVER MANY JEWS AND MANY OF THE GREEKS. WHEN PILATE, UPON HEARING HIM ACCUSED BY MEN OF THE HIGHEST STANDING AMONGST US, HAD CONDEMNED HIM TO BE CRUCIFIED, THOSE WHO HAD IN THE FIRST PLACE COME TO LOVE HIM DID NOT GIVE UP THEIR AFFECTION FOR HIM. THE PROPHETS OF GOD HAD PROPHESIED THESE AND COUNTLESS OTHER MARVELOUS THINGS ABOUT HIM. AND THE TRIBE OF CHRISTIANS, SO CALLED AFTER HIM, HAS STILL TO THIS DAY NOT DISAPPEARED. ANTIQUITIES 18:3:3

6 CORNELIUS TACITUS APPROX. AD 114 TO SQUELCH THE RUMOR [THAT HE HAD STARTED THE GREAT FIRE IN ROME], NERO CREATED SCAPEGOATS AND SUBJECTED TO THE MOST REFINED TORTURES THOSE WHOM THE COMMON PEOPLE CALLED CHRISTIANS, [A GROUP] HATED FOR THEIR ABOMINABLE CRIMES. THEIR NAME COMES FROM CHRIST, WHO, DURING THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS, HAD BEEN EXECUTED BY THE PROCURATOR PONTIUS PILATE. ANNALS 15.44

7 TALMUD (1 ST AND 2 ND CENTURY AD) ON THE EVE OF PASSOVER THEY HUNG YESHU BABYLONIAN SANHEDRIN 43A-B

8 30 REFERENCES TO RESURRECTION IN ACTS 1. ACTS 1:3--ALIVE AFTER PASSION 2. ACTS 1--JESUS WORDS AFTER THE RESURRECTION 3. ACTS 1:22--WITNESS OF RESURRECTION 4. ACTS 1: PETER S STATEMENT 5. ACTS 2:14--PETER S PENTECOSTAL SERMON 6. ACTS 2: JESUS CRUCIFIED AND RAISED 7. ACTS 2:27--NOT LEAVE SOUL IN HELL 8. ACTS 2:31--RESURRECTION OF CHRIST 9. ACTS 2:32--WITNESSES OF THE RESURRECTION 10. ACTS 2:36--JESUS CRUCIFIED: LORD AND CHRIST 11. ACTS 3:13-16, 18--JESUS KILLED AND RAISED 12. ACTS 3:26--GOD RAISED JESUS 13. ACTS 4:2--THROUGH JESUS THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD 14. ACTS 4:10--JESUS CRUCIFIED AND RAISED 15. ACTS 4:33--GREAT POWER GAVE APOSTLES WITNESS OF THE RESURRECTION 16. ACTS 5:28--BRING MAN S BLOOD UPON US 17. ACTS 5: DEATH & RESURRECTION-APOSTLES AND HOLY SPIRIT WITNESSES 18. ACTS 7:52--MURDERERS OF JESUS 19. ACTS 10: DEATH AND RESURRECTION WITNESSES, COMMISSION TO PREACH 20. ACTS 13: DEATH, BURIAL, EMPTY TOMB, APPEARANCES, WITNESSES 21. ACTS 13: RESURRECTION 22. ACTS 17:3--SUFFER AND RISE AGAIN 23. ACTS 17:18--JESUS AND RESURRECTION 24. ACTS 17: ASSURANCE BY RAISING JESUS FROM THE DEAD 25. ACTS 20:28--FLOCK PURCHASED WITH JESUS BLOOD 26. ACTS 22:15--WITNESS OF JESUS-WAS THE RISEN LORD-(ALSO SEE ACTS 9, 26) 27. ACTS 23:6-8--RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD-24:15, 21, 26:8 28. ACTS 25:19--JESUS DEAD-PAUL SAID ALIVE 29. ACTS 26: APPEARANCE OF JESUS 30. ACTS 26:23--JESUS SUFFER AND RISE FIRST

9 212 MAJOR REFERENCES TO DEATH & RESURRECTION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

10 THE TOMB WAS EMPTY WHAT IS THE MOST REASONABLE EXPLANATION OF THE FACTS? 1. JESUS BODY WAS TAKEN FROM THE TOMB. 2. JESUS DID NOT ACTUALLY DIE (SWOON THEORY). 3. JESUS WAS BODILY RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD.

11 THE STOLEN BODY THEORY WHO WOULD HAVE STOLEN THE BODY? THE JEWS? THE ROMANS? THE DISCIPLES? COULD THEY HAVE STOLEN THE BODY? DID THEY, IN FACT, STEAL THE BODY?

12 MATTHEW 27:62-66

13 THE SWOON THEORY BEATEN TO THE POINT OF NEAR DEATH. NO FOOD OR WATER FOR MORE THAN TWO DAYS. CRUCIFIED AND DIED. PIERCED WITH A SWORD. SEPARATED BLOOD AND WATER (PLASMA)

14 THE MASS HALLUCINATION THEORY THE WOMEN AT THE TOMB. PETER AND JOHN. THE TWELVE APOSTLES, INCLUDING DOUBTING THOMAS. MANY OTHER APPEARANCES. OVER 500 WITNESSES. (1 COR 15:3) DO HALLUCINATIONS EAT FISH? (JOHN 21:12)

15 DEATH & RESURRECTION WAS PROPHEISED JONAH 1:7 JONAH WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY. (MATTHEW 11:40 FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.) GENESIS 22:1-12 ABRAHAM RECEIVED ISAAC BACK FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY. (HEBREWS 11:17-19)

16 DEATH & RESURRECTION WAS PROPHEISED FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS. LEV 23:9-14 JESUS IS THE FIRSTFRUIT FROM AMONG THE DEAD. HIS RESURRECTION IS A PROMISE OF OURS. COLOSSIANS THE FIRST FRUIT FROM THE DEAD. ROMANS 6:2-7 IF WE HAVE BEEN UNITED WITH HIM IN HIS DEATH, WE WILL CERTAINLY ALSO BE UNITED WITH HIM IN HIS RESURRECTION.

17 THE QUESTION EITHER JESUS WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD OR HE WASN T?

18 THE QUESTION EITHER JESUS WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD OR HE WASN T? What does that mean.to me?

19 1 CORINTHIANS 15 LET ME REMIND YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OF THE GOOD NEWS THAT I PREACHED TO YOUWHEN WE FIRST MET.IT S THE ESSENTIAL MESSAGETHAT YOU HAVE TAKEN TO HEART. 3-4 FOR I PASSED DOWN TO YOU THE CRUX OF IT ALL WHICH I HAD ALSO RECEIVEDFROM OTHERS,THAT THE ANOINTED ONE,THE LIBERATING KING,DIED FOR OUR SINS AND WAS BURIED AND RAISED FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY. ALL THIS HAPPENED TO FULFILL THE SCRIPTURES;IT WAS THE PERFECT CLIMAX TO GOD S COVENANT STORY. 5 AFTERWARD HE APPEARED ALIVE TO CEPHAS(YOU MAY KNOW HIM AS SIMON PETER), THEN TO THE REST OF THE TWELVE. 6 IF THAT WERE NOT AMAZING ENOUGH,ON ONE OCCASION, HE APPEARED TO MORE THAN 500 BELIEVERS AT ONE TIME. MANY OF THOSE BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE STILL AROUNDTO TELL THE STORY, THOUGH SOME HAVE FALLEN ASLEEPIN JESUS.

20 1 CORINTHIANS IF THE ANOINTED HAS NOT BEEN RAISEDFROM THE DEAD, THEN YOUR FAITH IS WORTH LESSTHAN YESTERDAY S GARBAGE, YOU ARE ALL DOOMED IN YOUR SINS, 18 AND ALL THEDEARLYDEPARTED WHO TRUSTED IN HIS LIBERATION ARE LEFT DECAYINGIN THE GROUND. 19 IF WHAT WE HAVE HOPED FOR IN THE ANOINTED DOESN T TAKE US BEYOND THIS LIFE, THEN WE ARE WORLD-CLASS FOOLS, DESERVING EVERYONE S PITY. 20 BUT THE ANOINTED ONE WAS RAISED FROM DEATH S SLUMBER AND IS THE FIRSTFRUITSOF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEPIN DEATH. 21 FOR SINCE DEATH ENTEREDTHIS WORLDBY A MAN, IT TOOK ANOTHER MAN TO MAKE THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEADOUR NEWREALITY. 22 LOOK AT IT THIS WAY:THROUGH ADAM ALL OF US DIE, BUT THROUGH THE ANOINTED ONE ALL OF US CAN LIVE AGAIN. 23 BUT THIS IS HOW IT WILL HAPPEN: THE ANOINTED SAWAKENINGIS THE FIRSTFRUITS. IT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY THE RESURRECTION OF ALL THOSE WHO BELONG TO HIM AT HIS COMING, 24 AND THEN THE END WILL COME.

21 1 CORINTHIANS SIN CAMEINTO THIS WORLD, AND DEATH S STINGFOLLOWED. THEN SIN TOOK AIM AT THE LAW AND GAINED POWEROVER THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE LAW. 57 THANK GOD, THEN, FOR OUR LORD JESUS, THE ANOINTED,THE LIBERATING KING, WHO BROUGHT US VICTORY OVER THE GRAVE. 58 MY DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, STAY FIRMLY PLANTED BE UNSHAKABLE DO MANY GOOD WORKS IN THE NAME OF GOD, AND KNOW THAT ALL YOUR LABOR IS NOT FOR NOTHING WHEN IT IS FOR GOD.

22 ROMANS 2 3 Did someone forget to tell you that when we were initiated into Jesus the Anointed through baptism s ceremonial washing,we entered into His death? 4 Therefore, we were buried with Him through this baptism into death so that just as God the Father, in all His glory, resurrected the Anointed One, we, too, might walkconfidently out of the graveinto a new life. 5 To put it another way:if we have been united with Him to share in a death like His, don t you understand that we will also share in His resurrection? 6 We know this: whatever we used to be with our old sinful ways has been nailed to His cross. So our entire record of sin has been canceled, and we no longer have to bow down to sin s power.

23 IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESURRECTION: VALIDATES THE CLAIMS OF JESUS JOHN 11 I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE IT CONFIRMS THAT WE, TOO, WILL BE RESURRECTED 1 PETER 1:3-4 IT CONFIRMS THAT THERE WILL BE A JUDGMENT DAY ACTS 17:31 OUR DOUBTS BECOME MUCH LESS SIGNIFICANT. WHAT ABOUT. JESUS WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD!