Miracles of Calvary: #6 Revivals to Life
Matthew 27:50-53 – Victory Fellowship
April 10, 2022 - Rev. Roderick Grabski
Palm Sunday
I. INTRODUCTION: Lent journey to the Cross.
When considering the accounts of all the Gospels, Jesus’ death on the cross was accompanied by six miraculous events that lead to the concluding evidence of His Resurrection:
1) The Miraculous Darkness
2) The Tearing of the Temple Curtain
3) The Miraculous Earthquake
4) The Miracle of Opened Graves
5) Jesus’ Undisturbed Grave Clothes
6) Revivals to Life in the Calvary Graveyard
7) Resurrection Sunday: Evidence of the Resurrection
In my sermons, leading up to and including Easter, I will focus on each of these miracles. Jesus is more than a man and at His death, AND RESURRECTION, all Heaven and Earth proclaimed their witness.
II. REVIVALS IN CALVARY GRAVEYARD
A. Powerful Witness from Silence
1. It is the obvious and expected result
B. The Nature of the Revivals from Death
1. Others in Scripture:
Son of the widow in Zarephath (1 Kings 17-Elijah)
Shunammite's son (2 Kings 4-Elisha)
The dead man who was laid on Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13-band of Moabites approach Israelites)
The daughter of Jairus (Matthew 9; Mark 5; Luke 8)
The son of the widow of Nain (Luke 7) and Lazarus (John 11)
2. Different kind of Resurrection body is promised
(1st Corinthians 15:42-44) So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
3. No departed saint has a spiritual body
C. What the Calvary Revivals Teach Us
1. It was a miracle symbolizing the power of Christ's resurrection.
2. It was a foreshadowing of the final resurrection that will give believers a Spiritual and Eternal body
3. That Christ's atonement was necessary and complete!
Matt. 27:50; Rom. 3:23-26: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished--he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
1st John 2:2; 4:9-10: 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
III. CONCLUSION
The Promise: (Rev. 7:9-10) After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."
The Provision:
(John 5:24-29) 24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25 "Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; 27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man. 28 "Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice, 29 and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
PRAYER
SONG: Lord of the Dance
Matthew 27:50-53
50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.
