The Appearance To Mary Magdalene Series

And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven (1 Corinthians 15:49).

Christ’s resurrection body:

· Old qualities: Jesus’ resurrection body could be touched and handled (John 20:27; Luke 24:39), bore the marks of the wounds inflicted during the crucifixion (John 20:20, 25, 27), and could eat fish (Luke 24:41-43).

· New qualities: Jesus’ resurrection body apparently rose through the grave clothes (John 20:6-8), appeared in a locked room (John 20:19, 26), and was sometimes not (at least initially) recognized.

3. Our resurrection will happen when Christ RETURNS.

Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father” (John 20:17 NKJV).

After [Jesus] said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1:9-11).

But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him (1 Corinthians 15:23).

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).

4. Our resurrection is the final stage of our SALVATION.

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified (Romans 8:29-30).

The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed (Romans 13:11).

JESUS IS ALIVE. PASS IT ON.

Chris Moretz decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina alone at home. After the worst of the storm had passed, his house was flooded and destroyed. Chris needed to let his family know that he was still alive. But they were in Tucson, Arizona, and there was no way to contact them. So Chris painted the following message on the roof of his house: “C. MORETZ IS ALIVE. PASS IT ON.” Also included was the phone number of Chris’s brother Gerard.

Finally, Chris’s rooftop message was shown on TV and posted on some websites. Chris’s family began getting phone calls from all over the country that Chris was alive (USA TODAY).

The message of the first Christians was “JESUS IS ALIVE. PASS IT ON.”

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” (John 20:18).

[Jesus] said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:7-8).