{"id":160,"date":"2019-04-21T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T19:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/46.32.240.45\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=160"},"modified":"2019-04-21T20:09:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T19:09:34","slug":"easter-day-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2019\/04\/21\/easter-day-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Day Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This weeks Sermon from St Andrews Church is given by our vicar Rev&#8217; Cathy Pullinger at the Easter Day service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/210419\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/210419\/210419.mp3\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 3:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readings from Corinthians 15 v 1-26<br><br>and John 20 v 1-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Corintians 1 v 1-26<\/font>\n<br>\n<font color=\"red\">The Resurrection of Christ<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/font> Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/font> By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/font> For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/font> that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/font> and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/font> After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>7<\/strong><\/font> Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/font> and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/font> For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/font> But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them\u2014yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>11<\/strong><\/font> Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"red\">The Resurrection of the Dead<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>12<\/strong><\/font> But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>13<\/strong><\/font> If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>14<\/strong><\/font> And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>15<\/strong><\/font> More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>16<\/strong><\/font> For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>17<\/strong><\/font> And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>18<\/strong><\/font> Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>19<\/strong><\/font> If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>20<\/strong><\/font> But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>21<\/strong><\/font> For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>22<\/strong><\/font> For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>23<\/strong><\/font> But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>24<\/strong><\/font> Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>25<\/strong><\/font> For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>26<\/strong><\/font> The last enemy to be destroyed is death\n<br><br>\n\n<font color=\"red\">John 20 v 1-18<\/font>\n<br>\n<font color=\"red\">The Empty Tomb<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/font> 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. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/font> So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, \u201cThey have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don\u2019t know where they have put him!\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/font> So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/font> Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/font> He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/font>Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>7<\/strong><\/font> as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus\u2019 head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/font> Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/font> (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/font> Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"red\">Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>11<\/strong><\/font> Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>12<\/strong><\/font> and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus\u2019 body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>13<\/strong><\/font> They asked her, \u201cWoman, why are you crying?\u201d\n<br><br>\n\u201cThey have taken my Lord away,\u201d she said, \u201cand I don\u2019t know where they have put him.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>14<\/strong><\/font> At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>15<\/strong><\/font> He asked her, \u201cWoman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?\u201d\n<br><br>\nThinking he was the gardener, she said, \u201cSir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>16<\/strong><\/font> Jesus said to her, \u201cMary.\u201d\n<br><br>\nShe turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, \u201cRabboni!\u201d (which means \u201cTeacher\u201d).\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>17<\/strong><\/font> Jesus said, \u201cDo not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, \u2018I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.\u2019\u202f\u201d\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><strong>18<\/strong><\/font> Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: \u201cI have seen the Lord!\u201d And she told them that he had said these things to her.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weeks Sermon from St Andrews Church is given by our vicar Rev&#8217; Cathy Pullinger at the Easter Day service. Download Mp3 HERE! 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