how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture,
and that he was buried, and that he rose again
the third day according to the scripture.
And he talks about how he's seen him all his life.
I was out soul hunting the other day,
talked to a Jehovah's Witness, and he flat out told me,
he said, well, they don't believe he physically rose
from the dead, and turned to Luke 23.
We gotta hit on this before we move on to sermon.
Go to Luke 23.
I'm talking to this guy, he said, well,
they just believe that his spirit went out of his body.
He didn't physically raise from the dead,
just his spirit went out of his body.
Well, hold on a second.
Isn't that what death is, according to the Bible,
your spirit going out of your body?
I think I remember James 2.26,
for as the body without the spirit is dead,
so faith without works the dead also.
Hey, we know he died, but he physically rose again.
He physically walked out of that grave,
and I'll prove it to you from the Bible.
Luke 24, look at verse number 36.
It says, and as they thus faith,
this is after Jesus rose from the dead,
Jesus himself stood in the midst of them
and saith unto them, "Peace be unto you."
But they were terrified and apprided,
and supposed that they had seen a what?
They thought they just saw a spirit, right?
And he said unto them, "Why are you troubled?
And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Behold, my hands and my feet,
that it is I, myself, handle me and see.
For a spirit hath not flesh and bones as you see me to have."
I mean, you see what kind of garbage
they're teaching down there?
They're basically saying that Jesus
did not physically rise from the dead,
just his spirit went out of his body.
No, he physically walked out of that grave.
He said, "Handle me."
He said, "Put your fingers in the holes in my head.
Thrust your hand into the hole in my side
and be not faithless, but believe it."
And so he thought,
wasn't this a spiritual resurrection?
It was a physical bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And Paul said, "Look, we know Jesus rose from the dead.
We believe that he physically rose from the dead,
and therefore we believe that we have a home in heaven.
We will live.
When we die, that's not the end of it either.
We will live on in heaven with Jesus Christ,
and one day we'll be resurrected as well, physically,
from the grave."