Key Thought: The belief in Christ’s resurrection is essential to the plan of salvation and the Christian faith and encourages us in the hope of our resurrection at the second coming..
November 12, 2022

1. Have a volunteer read Matthew 27:62-66.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. How did the actions of the Romans help provide more evidence that Jesus had arisen?
3. Personal Application: How does Jesus’ resurrection prove that He had life unborrowed and underived and was the eternal God? Share your thoughts..
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Why did they seal the tomb and put Roman guards around the tomb? Did they think the disciples might steal the body and claim He was alive? Did they think He might actually arise?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Matthew 27:51-53.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Who were the first ones to see the resurrection of Jesus?
3. Personal Application: What was the significance of the temple curtain being torn from the top to the bottom at Christ’s death? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why did only some people come up out of the graves at Jesus’ death and resurrection? Why didn’t all come forth? Did those who were raised die again, or did they go to heaven with Jesus?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read John 20:11-29; I Corinthians 15:5-8..

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on the key idea of these verses.
2. How do the disciples first react when they meet the risen Christ?
3. Personal Application: Even though you haven’t seen, what reasons do you have for believing in a risen Christ? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Why did Jesus show the disciples the holes in His hands and sides? Was it to prove that He was human and not a spirit? Why would He still have the scars? Couldn’t He heal His own body from the wounds?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read I Corinthians 15:20.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How is Christ the first fruit of those that slept, since others had been raised from the dead in the Old Testament?
3. Personal Application: Who are the twenty-four elders before the throne? Were they the ones resurrected with Christ? Share your thoughts?
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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The theme hymn for this quarter’s studies “On Death, Dying and the FUTURE HOPE” is 
Hymn 214 – We Have This Hope.

Sabbath’s introduction talks of the crucifixion and death of our dear Jesus. The emotion that comes to us is uttered in 
Hymn 154/155 – When I Survey The Wondrous Cross.

The Sealed Tomb (Sunday) we question in
Hymn 158 – Were You There? and 
Hymn 317 – Lead Me To Calvary. The tomb is shattered, unable to hold our Savior in 
Hymn 170 – Come, You Faithful, 
Hymn 171 – Thine Is The Glory, Hymn 340 – Jesus Saves where we sing triumph o’er the tomb, and 
Hymn 205 – Gleams of The Golden Morning.

It is with adulation and triumph we read “He Is Risen?”: 
Hymn 526 – Because He Lives, 
Hymn 166 – Christ The Lord Is Risen Today, 
Hymn 176 – Hail The Day That Sees Him Rise and once again 
Hymn 171 – Thine Is The Glory.

Just as “Many Arose With Him” (Tuesday), so we look forward to the resurrection morning because 
“I Know Whom I Have Believed – Hymn 511. This is shown again on Wednesday.

Because of what Jesus did for each of us, 
Good Christian Friends, Rejoice! – Hymn 173. Ahhhh, yes, 
Thine Is The Glory – Hymn 171.

Today we look forward to Jesus coming again. Oh, what a day that will be 
When We All Get To Heaven – Hymn 633.

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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The victory of Christ over Satan and his evil powers was secured on the cross and confirmed by the empty tomb. “When Jesus was laid in the grave, Satan triumphed. He dared to hope that the Saviour would not take up His life again. He claimed the Lord’s body, and set his guard about the tomb, seeking to hold Christ a prisoner. He was bitterly angry when his angels fled at the approach of the heavenly messenger. When he saw Christ come forth in triumph, he knew that his kingdom would have an end, and that he must finally die.” — Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 782. And though Christ’s humanity died, His divinity did not die. In His divinity, Christ possessed the power to break the bonds of death.

Read Matthew 28:1-6; John 10:17-18; and Romans 8:11. Who was directly involved in the resurrection of Jesus?

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During His ministry in Samaria-Peraea, Jesus stated that He Himself had power to lay down His life and to take it again (John 10:17-18). To Martha He said, “I am the resurrection, and the life” (John 11:25). Other passages speak of His resurrection as an act of God (Acts 2:24, Romans 8:11, Galatians 1:1, Hebrews 13:20). Even a mighty angel of the Lord was involved in that glorious event (Matthew 28:1-2).

Meanwhile, Matthew 28:11-15 reveals the futile and foolish efforts of the leaders to continue fighting against Jesus. The Roman guard told the leaders “all the things that had happened” (Matthew 28:11, NKJV). Implicit in this account is the idea that the guards saw the resurrection. If not, what would their words mean? An angel came down from heaven, moved the stone, sat on it, and the guards fainted? The next thing that they know the tomb is empty? Maybe, while the Romans were unconscious, the angel took away the body of Jesus? Maybe the disciples did? Or someone else stole it? Whatever happened, the body of Jesus was, obviously, gone.

An angel from heaven coming down, the men fainting from fear, and the tomb being empty would have been disconcerting enough to the religious leaders. But that they “gave a large sum of money to the soldiers” (Matthew 28:12, NKJV) to keep these men quiet implied that whatever the soldiers told them disturbed them deeply. And what they told of, of course, was the resurrection of Jesus.

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Christ’s mission seemed to have ended (and even failed) with His death on the cross. Satan succeeded in instigating Judas to betray the Saviour (Luke 22:3-4; John 13:26-27) and the chief priests and elders to demand His death (Matthew 26:59, Matthew 27:20). After Jesus was arrested, “all the disciples forsook Him and fled” (Matthew 26:56, NKJV), and Peter denied Him three times (Matthew 26:69-75). Now Jesus was lying in a tomb hewed out of a rock, closed with a large and sealed stone, protected by Roman guards (Matthew 27:57-66), and watched by invisible demonic powers. “If he could, he [Satan] would have held Christ locked in the tomb.” — Ellen G. White, Manuscript Releases, vol. 12, p. 412.

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During His earthly ministry, Christ had foretold not only His death on the cross but also His resurrection. Using the Eastern inclusive language — in which a fraction of a day stands for a whole day — Jesus mentioned that “as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:39-40, , NKJV). On other occasions Jesus underscored that He would be killed but on the third day He would rise again (Matthew 16:21; Matthew 17:22-23; Matthew 20:17-19). The chief priests and the Pharisees were aware of those statements and took measures that they hoped would prevent His resurrection.

Read Matthew 27:62-66. How did these actions only help provide the world later with more evidence for the resurrection of Jesus?

All security measures taken to keep Jesus locked in the tomb only made His victory over death and the hosts of evil even more noticeable because of all the precautions and measures that they took to try to make sure it would never happen.

Also, these men surely had heard of the miracles of Jesus; they had seen some of them, too. And yet, they think that a guard over the tomb could stop Him, the one who was able to do so many miracles, from being resurrected?

Also, to put a guard around the tomb in case of — what? The disciples might steal the body and then claim that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead? When the people would ask, Where is the risen Jesus? They could say: Just take our word for it.

If nothing else, their actions revealed just how afraid the chief priests were of Jesus, even after He died. Perhaps, deep down, did they fear that He just might be resurrected, after all.

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Read for This Week’s Study: Matthew 27:62-66; John 10:17-18; Matthew 27:51-53; John 20:11-29; 1 Corinthians 15:5-8.

Memory Text: “When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. He put his right hand on me and said, ’Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the One who lives; I was dead, but look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys to death and to the place of the dead’” (Revelation 1:17-18, , NCV).

Central to the Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus. Paul made this point very powerfully when he wrote: “For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished” (1 Corinthians 15:16-18, NKJV). We will look at this in more detail next week.

Thus, no matter all the emphasis Paul put on Christ’s death, and how important it was — “For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2, NKJV) — it really does us no good apart from His resurrection. That’s how crucial the resurrection of Jesus is to the entire Christian faith and the plan of salvation.

However, it’s hard to understand why the resurrection of Christ and with it our resurrection are so important if, as many believe, the dead in Christ are already enjoying the bliss of heaven as they have “gone home to be with the Lord.”

All that aside, this week we will look at Christ’s resurrection and all the convincing evidence He gave us to believe in it.

Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, November 12.

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