{"id":6068,"date":"2015-04-03T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2015-04-03T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:18:21","slug":"understanding-the-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/understanding-the-resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cFor as yet they did not understand the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (John 20:9).<\/p>\n<p>Where do the Old Testament Scriptures say \u201cHe must rise again from the dead?\u201d Many aspects of the life and ministry of the Messiah had specific prophetic predictions in the Old Testament. But search for a direct prediction of this essential event in the Old Testament and you will come away empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus certainly predicted His own resurrection, although the disciples struggled to clearly understand Jesus\u2019 own words as well (Matt 16:21\u201328).<\/p>\n<h2><b>Missing the Forest for the Trees<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Hidden in plain sight in the Old Testament are the countless examples of God\u2019s deliverance of His people from their various hard circumstances.<\/em><\/strong> The Exodus was God\u2019s deliverance of Israel from Egyptian captivity. God used Samson to deliver Israel from the Philistines. God delivered King David from the hand of King Saul. However, all of these \u201cdeliverances\u201d were temporary and God\u2019s people and their chosen deliverer still died.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Deliverance of the Righteous<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>During a time of trouble, Israel\u2019s King David asserts to God, \u201cYou have tried my heart. You have tested me and You find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. . . My steps have held fast to Your paths. . .I have called upon You. For You will answer me, O God. Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech. Wondrously show Your faithfulness to me&#8221; (Psalm 17: 3\u20137). David was taking God at His word that God would certainly deliver the righteous from times of trouble (cf. Ps. 91; esp. Ps 91:15). David classified himself as one of \u201cthe righteous\u201d and expected deliverance. God did deliver him from the hand of King Saul.<\/p>\n<h2><b>The Ultimate Trouble<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>However, King David was not delivered from the ultimate trouble\u2014death (Acts 2:29). For he could not assert nor maintain his innocence throughout his life until the end. In fact, another Psalmist recognizing the ultimate trouble of death laments, \u201cWhat man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Where is your faithfulness, O Lord?\u201d (Psalm 89:48\u201349).<\/p>\n<p>While the Psalmist questions God by asking, \u201cWhere is the Lord\u2019s faithfulness to deliver?&#8221;, God\u2019s very sobering answer is that His faithfulness to deliver will be toward the faithful one. In that answer, all of humanity is immediately robbed of any hope for deliverance from the ultimate trouble. For there are no faithful ones.<\/p>\n<h2><b>The Only Righteous One<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>The resurrection of Jesus Christ is God\u2019s grand and glorious display of His approval of His Son<\/em><\/strong>. God delivered Jesus from the ultimate troubles\u2014physical death (the grave) and spiritual death (separation from God the Father) because <strong><em>His Son was the only faithful One<\/em><\/strong>. Not only was His Son perfectly faithful to His Father to the point of death, the Son, in addition, suffered vicariously on behalf of humanity. Truly the Father delighted in His Son. Thus, God\u2019s resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the culmination of all of the Old Testament patterns of God&#8217;s deliverance of the righteous one\u2014 or more specifically, The One. In the Psalmist\u2019s words, God did indeed, \u201cwondrously show His faithfulness\u201d to the ultimately troubled one (Psalm 17: 3\u20137).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Your Hope In Jesus\u2019 Resurrection<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>God\u2019s deliverance from the ultimate troubles is amazingly available to you and me, the faithless ones, by faith in The Faithful One<\/em><\/strong>. That is the good news of the resurrection of Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor as yet they did not understand the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead\u201d (John 20:9). 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