Berean Bible Church

Easter- Four Major Events

April 8, 2007

The Four Major Events of Easter

1 The Death of Christ

2 The Burial of Christ

3 The Resurrection of Christ

4 The Ascension of Christ

Each of these events has to do with a literal, human body

I Why did Christ die?

1 Corinthians 15:1-3 I declare the gospel…first of all that Christ died.

John 1:29 He died as God’s lamb, as 1000’s of lambs had been sacrificed

His death was not for Himself for he had no sin of his own

His death could only be sacrificial and substitution. His only sin was our sin

1 Corinthians 5:21 made Him to be sin

1 Peter 3:18 He died that He might bring us to God

II Why was He Buried?

1 Corinthians 15:4 the fact is stated, He was buried

1 Peter 3:18 He was put to death in the flesh

His burial proved that fact that his death was a physical death- in the flesh

Therefore, a body was buried. Death and burial are part of each other.

Matthew 27 57-60 notice the words ‘the body”

Mark 15:43-47 again, notice the word ‘body.”

Luke 23:50-55 here again it was a body laid in a tomb

John 19:38-42 the same event is told again.

III Why was His Body Resurrected?

1 John 1:1-3 a body came out of the tomb, seen and handled

Acts 1:1-3 He showed Himself alive after his passion

John 20:18 seen

John 20:19-20 they saw Him

John 21:1 He showed Himself alive

John 19:30 On the Cross, just before He died Jesus said: “It is finished” The work He had come to do was finished by his death on the cross.

Romans 4:25 He was delivered up to death for our sin; He was raised as proof that He had indeed finished the work of putting away our sin.

IV Then Came the Final Ascension.

Luke 24:50-53 A man in a body ascended to heaven

Acts 1:9-11 The disciples saw a body go up out of their sight

1 Timothy 2:5 There is one man in a glorified body in Heaven now.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 tells of the day when others of the human race will also be caught up to Heaven because of the finished work of Christ