Reading Plan
If you’re looking to dive deeper into what the Bible says about this topic, here’s a suggested Reading Plan, one passage per day for a whole week, based on the sermon:
- MONDAY: Ezekiel 37
- TUESDAY: Mark 16
- WEDNESDAY: Matthew 28
- THURSDAY: John 20
- FRIDAY: John 21
- SATURDAY: Luke 24
- SUNDAY: Acts 1
eGroup Discussion Questions – Great for personal reflection/journaling, too!
Sermon Notes: “Expect a Resurrection!” ⤵️
Preacher: Steven Furtick
Passage: Ezekiel 37
Title: Expect a Resurrection!
Date: April 12, 2020 (Easter Sunday)
Today’s sermon notes were taken during the 9:30 livestream from the Ballentyne campus.
- This room isn’t empty, it’s filled with the glory of God.
- Jesus folded his clothes to say, “I got up on purpose!“
- I shame is in that tomb. My sin is in this tomb. I left that all in the grave.
- This pandemic may seem like the end of the world.
- Every day that you have young kids home may feel like a Saturday. Here’s what I’ve learned about Saturday: It’s a set up.
- [Introduced new song: “Rattle!”, lyrics and video below, also performed in the sermon video above]
- It feels like a Saturday: I don’t know what’s going to happen next. But you Lord know. (Ezekiel 37)
- Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death, it’s just a shadow.
- God said, “I Am,” and he still is.
- The Silence of Saturday v. the Rattle of Resurrection
- Where’s the sermon?! This is the sermon!
- Resurrection is not an intellectual proposition! It’s a present reality.
- Unmet expectations can turn into resentment. Mary and Martha to Jesus: “If you’d have been here, this wouldn’t have happened.” (John 11:21)
- Martha knew the eschatological meaning of resurrection (a future event), but faith isn’t just in the future. (John 11:24)
- Are you ready for resurrection? This is resurrection: the ability to trust God in what’s next, not what could have been.
- “I am the resurrection.” (John 11:25)
- Mark 16:9: “When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.”
- The person Jesus first appeared to after his resurrection was the person with the most dysfunction.
- Mary Magdalene fully accepted Jesus’ death. She saw the stone on Friday say, “It’s over,” and on Sunday it yelled, “HE IS RISEN!“
- The only way to fully accept resurrection is to fully accept death.
- Unmet expectation is the starting point of resurrection.
Rattle! Lyrics
Saturday was silent, surely it was through
But since when has impossible ever stopped you
Friday’s disappointment is Sunday’s empty tomb
But since when has impossible ever stopped you
This is the sound of dry bones rattling
This is the praise make a dead man walk again
Open the grave, I’m coming out
I’m gonna live, gonna live again
This is the sound of dry bones rattling!
Pentecostal fire stirring something new
You’re not going to run out of miracles anytime soon
Resurrection power runs in my veins too
I believe there’s another miracle here in this room!
This is the sound of dry bones rattling
This is the praise make a dead man walk again
Open the grave, I’m coming out
I’m gonna live, gonna live again
This is the sound of dry bones rattling!
My God is able to save and deliver and heal
And restore anything that he wants to
Just ask the man that was thrown on the bones of Elisha
If there’s anything that he can’t do
Just ask the stone that was rolled at tomb in the garden
What happens when God says to move
I feel him moving it now
I feel him doing it now
I feel him doing it now
Do it now
This is the sound of dry bones rattling
This is the praise make a dead man walk again
Open the grave, I’m coming out
I’m gonna live, gonna live again
This is the sound of dry bones rattling!
I hear the sound! (I hear the sound!)
Rattle! Rattle!
This is what he said: LIVE!
Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord: LIVE! LIVE!
This is the sound of dry bones rattling
This is the praise make a dead man walk again
Open the grave, I’m coming out
I’m gonna live, gonna live again
This is the sound of dry bones rattling!