But God Raised Him (Easter Sunday)

Acts-The Gospel in the City PART XVII
Dr. Timothy Keller
31 March 2013

Acts 13:26-31
26Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.  27The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are ready every Sabbath.  28Though they found no proper grounds for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.  29When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.  30But God raised him from the dead, 31and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.  They are now his witnesses to our people

Acts 13:38-39
38Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.  39Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain inder the law of Moses.

RESURRECTION
--Was preached as a fact and a fulfillment.
--How much evidence do I need for the truth of the resurrection?
--Doctrine fulfilled our deepest longings.
--It speaks of a future.

FUTURE
--That is certain.
--That is personal.
--That is unimaginably wonderful.

Resurrection proves that the Cross paid for our sins and provides the body and life you never had.