What Did the Resurrection Mean? Part 3Tonkawa,Disciples all over the world are fresh off of celebrating the bodily resurrection of Jesus. With that in mind, I’d like to take the next five weeks to look at what exactly that event meant and how we should understand it today. In the first two installments,I stated that Jesus’ earliest disciples understood His resurrection as a confirmation of the promises of God; first God’s promise to restore all things and second God’s promise of a Messiah who will rule and bless all the nations from one nation, Israel.For the third week, we’ll see that Jesus’ resurrection confirms to the apostles that Jesus’ atoning work in his cross, blood, death, and entrance into the heavenly altar, works.Once again, Peter preaches in Acts 2:“….this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God…Peter saying, “delivered up” would invoke in the hearers atonement language from Leviticus, such as “I have given it on the altar to make atonement for your sins.”In the atonement, God provides the lamb to be slain; God “delivers up” the offering….you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up…. And then Peter says, in view of God delivering up Jesus sacriAnd then Peter says, in view of God delivering up Jesus sacrificially, what?“Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for (what? What does Peter imply will happen when people put their hope in the crucified and risen lamb? What will they receive?) the forgiveness of your sins….Because God accounted Jesus’ Life as worthy and therefore raised Him up, His death counts as atoning, reconciling, propitiating, and justifyingOther deaths don’t do that. But because He is a perfect lamb without spot or blemish, His death does. As Paul states in Col 1:18–20:He [Jesus] is the beginning, the firstborn from (from where?) the dead….20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things…. making peace by the blood of his cross.The apostles, after they received it from Jesus in those 40 days, proclaim that faith and repentance in His cross brings forgiveness, justification, and peace between God and man.And they proclaim these things to be true, why? Because God raised Jesus from the dead.Because God raised Jesus from the dead.Until He Comes,Josh Reese, Christian Life Church ...
