Might Get Loud
Easter 2023
April 7, 2023

How They Must Have Felt That Saturday?
Angry
Betrayed
Lonely
Exhausted
Spent
Hopeless
Stuck In Saturday

The Silence of Saturday Was Deafening

Saturday Was Just Another Saturday For Nonbelievers
Those Who Are Not Sure
Those Who Have Fallen Away
Those Who Are Skeptics

Deniers and Skeptics Have Always Been a Part of The Resurrection Story

1. The Evidence Is Loud
Grave Cloths Wrapped
Eyewitness Accounts
Stone Rolled Away
Angelic Presence
Five Hundred Witnesses Galilee
Disciples Transformed Lives
An Empty Tomb
Missing Body

2. The Prophecies Concerning Jesus Speak Loud
18 Different Prophets (10th-4th Century) Predicting His Birth, Life, Betrayal and Manner of Death

3. History Speaks Loud
There is No Trace of Any Religious Founder Appearing to Any Followers After Their Death

What Looked Like A Finish Line Became A Starting Line

Only God Can Take A Hopeless Saturday And Turn It Into A Resurrection Sunday

His Death Was Our Death
Romans 6:6-11
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.

He Died For Your Sins

His Burial Was Our Burial
Romans 6:4
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

He Buried Your Past

The Resurrection
The Loudest Moment In Human History

He Raised You To New Life
Colossians 3:1
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

Acts 2:1-2
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

God’s Suddenlys Are Always Louder Than The Silence of Your Saturdays

Second Coming of Christ

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.