Luke 24:5–6 (NLT) “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead!”

Premise: What looks like the end in your life is often the very place where God is about to reveal resurrection power.

“This Ain’t That” Means: is a declaration that what you’re looking at is not what you think it is

Truths

1: This Ain’t What It Looks Like

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT) “For we live by believing and not by seeing.”

2: This is NOT The End

Philippians 1:6 (NLT) “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished…”

3: This is not about Who You Were, but indeed about who you are BECOMING!

Romans 6:4 (NLT) “For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead… now we also may live new lives.”

Insight

Point 1: What Looked Like Defeat Was Actually The Setup

Luke 23:46 (NLT) “Then Jesus shouted, ‘Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!’ And with those words he breathed his last.”

Point 2: The Grave Was Not The End… It Was The Transition

Matthew 27:60 (NLT) “Then Joseph placed the body in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.”

Point 3: Resurrection Is God’s Response To What Tried To Kill You

Luke 24:6 (NLT) “He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead!”

“The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.’”

Genesis 12:1 (NLT)

“The man with a deformed hand was there. Since it was the Sabbath, Jesus’ enemies watched him closely. If he healed the man’s hand, they planned to accuse him of working on the Sabbath. Jesus said to the man, ‘Come and stand in front of everyone.’ Then he turned to his critics and asked, ‘Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?’ But they wouldn’t answer him. He looked around at them angrily and was deeply saddened by their hard hearts. Then he said to the man, ‘Hold out your hand.’ So the man held out his hand, and it was restored!”

Mark 3:1–5 NLT

“A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. ‘If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,’ he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be healed!’ Instantly the leprosy disappeared, and the man was healed.”

Mark 1:40-42 NLT

For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.” '

Luke 19:10 NLT

'The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” '

Judges 6:11-16 NIV