April 19 -- Easter Sunday

SCRIPTURES:

Acts 10:34-43

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

John 20:1-18

PSALTER: Psalm 118:14-29	839

SERMON: Resurrection Disciples

HYMNS:

Christ the Lord is Risen Today	302

Thine Be the Glory	308

The Day of Resurrection	303

ACS 10:34 ¶ Then Peter began to speak: "I now realize how true it is that God

does not show favoritism

ACS 10:35 But accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is

right.

ACS 10:36 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the

good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

ACS 10:37 You know what has happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee

after the baptism that John preached--

ACS 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power,

and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under

the power of the devil, because God was with him.

ACS 10:39 ¶ "We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews

and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

ACS 10:40 But God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to

be seen.

ACS 10:41 He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had

already chosen--by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from

the dead.

ACS 10:42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is

the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead.

ACS 10:43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in

him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."

1CO 15:19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied

more than all men.

1CO 15:20 ¶ But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits

of those who have fallen asleep.

1CO 15:21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead

comes also through a man.

1CO 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

1CO 15:23 But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he

comes, those who belong to him.

1CO 15:24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the

Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.

1CO 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

1CO 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

JOH 20:1 ¶ 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.

JOH 20:2 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!"

JOH 20:3 ¶ So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.

JOH 20:4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached

the tomb first.

JOH 20:5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but

did not go in.

JOH 20:6 Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the

tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,

JOH 20:7 As well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The

cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.

JOH 20:8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also

went inside. He saw and believed.

JOH 20:9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to

rise from the dead.)

JOH 20:10 ¶ Then the disciples went back to their homes,

JOH 20:11 But Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over

to look into the tomb

JOH 20:12 And saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one

at the head and the other at the foot.

JOH 20:13 ¶ They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my

Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him."

JOH 20:14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she

did not realize that it was Jesus.

JOH 20:15 ¶ "Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking

for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have

carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get

him."

JOH 20:16 ¶ Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in

Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).

JOH 20:17 ¶ Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to

the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am

returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

JOH 20:18 ¶ Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen

the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her.