Easter Sunday Message Notes
Here are the notes to Pastor Steve’s message for Easter Sunday. Feel free to print them and follow along during the online message at 9:55 a.m on Facebook.
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” 3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. John 20:1-8
What did Jesus say about guilt?
What is it that makes ________________ feel guilty?
Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. 34
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” 39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:32-34, 39-43
Help finish these key phrases.
If you make your bed, you're going to ________________.
Your past will come back to ________________.
What goes around ________________.
You’re going to reap what you ________________.
You’re going to get what you ________________.
Something for you to think about.
What do you think you deserve?
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, God made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—Ephesians 2:3-5
Jesus did not come to make guilty people feel better. Jesus came to set them free.
Jesus did not come to make bad people good. Jesus came to make them alive.
“Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ourselves to be deadened over time.” ― Erwin Raphael McManus
—it is by grace you have been saved. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:5, 8-9
Mercy: Not getting the punishment I deserve.
Grace: Getting the blessings and good I don’t deserve.
My Spiritual Survey
I’m already in a real relationship with Jesus.
I’m beginning a relationship with Christ today.
I’d like to consider Christ a bit more, please.
I don’t intend to follow Christ.
Next Steps