Todd's Road Grace Church would
like to invite you to listen to a sermon by our pastor, Todd
Nyberg. We are located at 4137 Todd's
Road, two miles outside of Manowar Boulevard. Sunday services are
at 1030 a.m. and 6 p.m. Bible study is at
945 a.m. Wednesday services are at 7 p.m. Nursery is provided for all services.
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Now here's our pastor, Todd Nybert. I'm reading from Mark chapter
nine. I would like to read verses nine
and 10. I am asking this question. What does the resurrection mean? Beginning in verse nine. And
as they came down from the mountain, He charged them that they should
tell no man what things they had seen till the Son of Man
were risen from the dead. And they kept that saying with
themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from
the dead should mean. Now, they were coming down from
the Mount of Transfiguration. The story's in both Matthew and
Luke's account as well. It was that time when the Lord
Jesus was transfigured before them. And I don't know what all
that means, but the scripture says His face began to shine
as the sun. His Clothes glistened with whiteness
and brightness and somehow at this time, and I don't even know
what I'm saying when I say this, his deity burst through his humanity. And they were eyewitnesses to
this. They were eyewitnesses to the Lord Jesus Christ in this
glorious state, speaking with two men who had been physically
dead for a long time, Moses and Elijah. They appeared with him
on the mount, and we know what they were talking about. Luke
9.31 in Luke's account, he says, they speak of the decease which
he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Now, this is why the Lord came.
He came to die and to accomplish something by his death. And this
is what they were speaking of. And they audibly, Peter and James
and John, audibly heard the voice of the Father from heaven. This
is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him. Now, these men were, like us,
sinners saved by grace. They were not some kind of super
saints with halos over their head. They were no different
than you and I are. If we're saved, we're sinners
saved by grace. Well, they were too. That's all
they were. Now, if you witness this, wouldn't
you want to tell somebody about it? I certainly would. I'd want to tell them what I
saw concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, how he really is who
he said he was because of what we've just seen. I would have
wanted to say something to somebody. I would have been rushing down
the mountain in order to tell everybody about this. But what
does the Lord do? And as they came down from the
mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what
things they'd seen till the son of man were risen from the dead. Now here he makes an announcement
of his resurrection. You can tell them after that
I'm risen from the dead, not before then, but after that I'm
risen from the dead. And they kept that saying with
themselves. They didn't tell anybody. but they also were questioning
one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. And I wonder how often this happened
with the disciples. The Lord would say something
and when they were by themselves, they'd say, did you hear what
he said? What did he mean by that? What does that mean? Well, they were doing this regarding
this statement. Perhaps this is the first time
they'd heard it. Him saying, I'm going to rise from the dead.
And they were saying, what does that mean? Now it is my prayer
that that question will be answered this morning. What is meant by
the resurrection from the dead? And we read in Psalm 2-2, a thousand
years before he was raised from the dead, God said, Thou art
my son, this day have I begotten thee. Now this is a reference
to the eternal nature of his resurrection. He is the only
begotten eternal son. And what speaks of his sonship
is his resurrection from the dead. And this begetting is not
an event of time, it's a fact. irrespective of time. He is the
only begotten Son of God. I love what he said, I am the
resurrection and the life. You see, the resurrection is
not so much an event, it's Him. He's the only begotten, completely,
continually the only begotten Son of God. And every believer
standing at all times is seen in His resurrection, his begetting
from the dead, what God did for him and what God did for everyone
that he did it for. He's the only begotten son. He is the resurrection and he
is the life. Listen to this scripture. Romans
chapter four, verse 25 says he was delivered for our offenses
and raised again for our justification. Now, do you know what justified
means? Justified means, or what does
it mean in a court of law? If you're justified, that means
you're not guilty of the crime. It doesn't mean you're pardoned.
It doesn't mean you're forgiven. It means you're not guilty. Now,
if I'm justified, that means I never sinned. If I'm justified,
that means I stand before God's law without guilt. I'm sinless. I'm perfectly righteous. That's
what the Lord said regarding the publican. He said, I tell
you, that man went down to his house justified, without guilt,
perfect, righteous. And this is what The resurrection
means He so satisfied God, He so put away sins, that when He
was raised from the dead, every believer was justified. Who shall
lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who is He that condemns? It's
Christ that died. Yea, rather, that's risen again. His resurrection means the complete
justification of His people. And then Romans 14, 19 says,
to this end, Christ both died and rose and revived, that he
might be Lord, both of the dead and the living. Now Christ is
the eternal Lord, I realize that, but there are glories he achieved
through his life, death, and resurrection that he wouldn't
have had had he not done this. Somebody says, explain that to
me. I can't explain that, but I know it's so. He said, Father,
the hour has come, glorify thy son that thy son also might glorify
thee, and oh, the lordship that Christ now demonstrates He's
Lord of creation. He's the one who created the
universe. He's Lord of providence. It's His will being done, whatever
takes place. He's Lord of salvation. If you're
saved, it's because He willed your salvation. And note this,
He's the Lord of the living and He's the Lord of the dead. Somebody
that's dead in sins, He's their Lord. They might not know it,
but He's their Lord. When someone says, won't you
make Jesus the Lord of your life? Listen, if you can make Him the
Lord of your life, that means you're His Lord. That will never be.
He is Lord. He's Lord of the dead. He is
Lord of the living. He was raised from the dead,
that all His people might be eternally married to Him. In
Romans 7, verse 4, Paul said, Wherefore, my brethren, you become
dead to the law by the body of Christ, that you might be married
to another, even to him that is raised from the dead, that
we might bring forth fruit unto God. Now we were once married
to the law. And oh, the law was a rough husband. All he would
do is expose every fault we had and every sin we had. No mercy
with that husband. But now we're married to the
Lord Jesus Christ, who sees us as beautiful through His comeliness
and through His righteousness, and who sees no fault in His
bride. He says, Thou art all fair, my
love. There is no spot in thee." What
a marriage, what a relationship every believer has because of
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. Peter
said this in 1 Peter 3, verse 21, the like figure whereunto
even baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, the resurrection
of Jesus Christ gives me a good conscience. Now, as far as the
way I feel about myself, I feel guilty all the time about something.
Somebody says, well, what's wrong with you? Well, same thing that's
wrong with you. We're sinners. And I feel guilty about something
all the time. There's only one thing that satisfies
my conscience, the resurrection of Christ. That lets me know
I don't have anything to feel guilty about. He put away all
my sin. Peter put it this way in 1 Peter
1.3 that he's begotten us again unto a lively hope or a living
hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead. My hope lives. He's a living hope. He's seated
at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for me. And
my hope lives. It's the living Lord Jesus Christ.
I've heard people say, Christ is alive and well. Oh no, He's
life. He's life. He's not alive. He is life. And my hope is the
living hope, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the stuff of faith. Paul
said, if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.
Thou shalt be saved." Now, I do believe God raised him from the
dead, and I know why God raised him from the dead. He completely
put away all the sins of everybody he died for, and made complete
satisfaction to God, and justified everybody he died for. And that
is the stuff of faith. We believe in our heart that
God has raised him from the dead, and we know that because he was
raised. we'll have the sure and certain
hope of being raised on Judgment Day and accepted by Him. And oh, we look forward to His
return. When He shall come with trumpet
sound, oh, may I then in Him be found. dressed in His righteousness
alone, faultless to stand before the throne. On Christ the solid
rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. To receive a copy of the sermon
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