Graves To Gardens - This Changes Everything

But the Jewish leaders demanded, “What are you doing? If God gave you authority to do this, show us a miraculous sign to prove it.”19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”20 “What!” they exclaimed. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple, and you can rebuild it in three days?” 21 But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.JOHN 2:18-22Message Title: THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING."EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN I EXPERIENCED THE PROOF” 19 “All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”But when Jesus said “this temple,” he meant his own body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered he had said this, and they believed both the Scriptures and what Jesus had said.What is the thing that changed everything for the disciples? THE RESURRECTION. The Resurrection of Jesus changes everything.“Apart from the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there is no savior, no salvation, no forgiveness of sin, and no hope of resurrected eternal life. Apart from the resurrection, Jesus is reduced to yet another good but dead man and therefore is of no considerable help to us in this life or at its end. Plainly stated, without the resurrection of Jesus, the few billion people today who worship Jesus as God are gullible; their hope for a resurrection life after this is the hope of silly fools who trust in a dead man to give them life. Subsequently, the doctrine of Jesus’ resurrection is, without question, profoundly significant and worthy of the most careful consideration and examination.” - DOCTRINE. But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.1 CORINTHIANS 15:12-14 THE RESURRECTION IS YOUR RECEIPTHe has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.PSALM 103:12THE RESURRECTION IS YOUR I.D.This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!2 CORINTHIANS 5:17THE RESURRECTION IS YOUR DEGREE And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.ROMANS 8:28