{"id":292,"date":"2010-04-04T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/messages\/2010\/resurrection-easter-message\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T18:34:45","slug":"resurrection-easter-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/2010\/resurrection-easter-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurrection (Easter Message)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Related Scripture:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Philippians&nbsp;3:7&ndash;11<\/li>\n<li>Colossians&nbsp;3:1&ndash;3<\/li>\n<li>1&nbsp;Thessalonians&nbsp;4<\/li>\n<li>Ephesians&nbsp;2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Thoughts:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>When Jesus Christ rose from the grave, He was the firstfruits of all those who sleep in Christ. He rose from the grave to life. It is not just a story, not just a picture of something mystical that happened long ago&mdash;it is a reality. He is alive!<\/li>\n<li>Before we are saved, we are spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. There is no power in the withered hand to get a hold of God by faith. There is no mind that can conceive of such a dying love in Jesus, and trust in the fact that He literally rose from the grave. (Ephesians&nbsp;2) <\/li>\n<li>Unless God works on your heart, there is maybe a thought of &#8220;what happens when I die,&#8221; but there is no conviction that would lead you to salvation, because that&#8217;s too painful. Conviction is that first painful inkling that you need to be brought to life. (It&#8217;s pain like unto a hand or foot that&#8217;s gone to sleep, and when the blood finally circulates again, there is a painful tingling.)<\/li>\n<li>If you are not saved, you are going to find that when God really does bring you under conviction, that all-of-a-sudden there&#8217;s a painful experience. It is a conviction that you have not known Christ and you are lost without Him, and you are dead. You do not have a hope because you do not have a living Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Believers, pray that God will bring the unbelievers around you to a saving knowledge of Christ, because life is not designed to stay in the grave.<\/li>\n<li>Is the grave where you want to be for the rest of eternity? Neither is the grave of fleshly self-centered life where we belong for the Christian existence on earth. (&#8220;If you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above&hellip;.&#8221; Colossians&nbsp;3) As with Lazarus, the grave clothes&mdash;that which stinks of decay&mdash;is to be cast-off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download Recording<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20100404hi.mp3\" rel=\"external\">For Broadband Connection<\/a> (Approx. 22 MB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20100404lo.mp3\" rel=\"external\">For Dial-Up Connection<\/a> (Approx. 2.7 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Scripture: Philippians&nbsp;3:7&ndash;11 Colossians&nbsp;3:1&ndash;3 1&nbsp;Thessalonians&nbsp;4 Ephesians&nbsp;2 Thoughts: When Jesus Christ rose from the grave, He was the firstfruits of all those who sleep in Christ. He rose from the grave to life. It is not just a story, not just a picture of something mystical that happened long ago&mdash;it is a reality. He is alive! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}