Broken for the Broken | Easter 2024 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Broken for the Broken | Easter 2024 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Why was the Cross and the Resurrection necessary?

1 Corinthians 15:14 NIV
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

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Evidence for the Resurrection

• The evidence of the empty tomb
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• The personal testimony of the disciples
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• Women were the first to find Him
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If the Resurrection is true, it says something about us.

It says that we are .

He was broken because we are broken.

Romans 1:28-32 MSG
Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!

Romans 3:23
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Even knowing the consequences of our sin doesn’t keep me from sinning.

Romans 7:24-25 MSG
I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question? The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions…

John 11:25-26
“I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die.

My Claim: The Resurrection was necessary because we are broken.

Jesus offers His person.

Isaiah 53:5 NLT
He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.

The Resurrection Declares Today

1. You have a new .

2. You have a new .

3. You have a new .

John 1:12-13 NLT
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.