• Welcome!
• HAPPY EASTER!
• Is the resurrection even logical?
• We know the resurrection is true is because we use the F.E.A.T. acronym
• (F)Fatal Torment – (E)Empty Tomb – (A)Appearances – (T)Transformation
• One thing that we know for sure is that Jesus was a real person.
• We must prove that Jesus actually died
• (F)Fatal Torment:
• He suffered from hematidrosis at the time of His crucifixion
• Jesus endured getting beaten
• He endured scourging (also called the half-death)
• He had a crown of thorns pressed onto His head and beaten into His brow
• He was crucified. This causes death by asphyxiation.
• The executioners were professionals… it was their JOB!
• He was pierced through the heart and lungs with a spear
• Jesus actually died and was D-E-A-D when they pulled Him off the cross
• (E)Empty Tomb:
• The female factor
• Women discovered the empty tomb… why does this give the empty tomb more credibility?
• Both the Roman and the Jewish governments acknowledged that the tomb was empty. There was never a dispute about that!
• The soldiers would not have walked away. This kind of failure would have caused them to be put to death themselves.
• (A)Appearances: 1 Corinthians 15:3-8
• Jesus appeared to, at minimum, 500 people, on 12 different occasions spread over a 40-day period of time.
• (T)Transformation:
• Jeff brings Tupac back??
• at first, the consensus was that Jesus was DEAD and NOT WORTHY OF PRAISE!
• Thomas was once a strong follower, but after the death of Jesus, he became a skeptic
• BUT THEN: John 20:25-29
• Thomas transformed from a skeptic to a martyr, dying for his conviction that he’d actually seen the risen Jesus
• The Apostle Peter: Mark 14:17
• Peter changed from a bold disciple to a bold denier of Jesus. He was even scared for his life and in hiding!
• The Historian, Tertullian, claims Peter was crucified. Church history, and writings from the 2nd century AD has Peter being crucified upside-down because he felt unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as Jesus.
• Peter went from denying Jesus to dying for his faith!!
• James, Jesus’ brother felt Jesus was insane: Mark 3:20-21
• The Historian Josephus records the sentence of James: “…so he assembled the sanhedrim of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others; and when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned.”
• Even James, the brother of Jesus, changed from a person who thought Jesus was insane to someone who would give up his life because he saw Jesus risen and believed.

BIBLE CONTRADICTION
• When Jesus rose from the dead – when did the women find the tomb? After sunrise or before?
• Mark 16:2 vs John 20:1