[Faith-Talk] Fwd: He is risen indeed!

[Steve Heesen]

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> Date: April 20, 2019 at 7:16:38 PM CDT
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> Subject: He is risen indeed!
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> April 20, 2019 
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> Easter guarantees that God’s promises are true, that redemption is accomplished — and that final judgment is coming.
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> Pastor Jason Meyer completes our Holy Week 2019 series with an Easter meditation on the triumph song of resurrection in Psalm 2. “You are my Son,” says the Lord in Psalm 2:7. “Today I have begotten you.” It was Easter Sunday when the God-man “was declared to be the Son of God in power . . . by his resurrection from the dead” (Romans 1:4). And with it came an often overlooked Easter theme: a warning of the judgment to come. Let all the peoples fear. And let all who have taken refuge in the Son rejoice. The resurrection is a message of terror for all rebels — and of triumphant joy for the repentant. He rose again to warn the world.
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> For your Easter weekend listening, we’ve queued up John Piper’s 28-minute message from 1989 on irrevocable joy. Piper’s new lab on Philippians 3:7–10 shows us where to turn when suffering comes. And in case you missed them, we list below some highlights from the last week-plus at Desiring God.
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> A R T I C L E
> He Rose Again to Warn the World
> The Empty Tomb — and Coming Judgment
> The resurrection is the assurance that judgment is coming. Let all peoples be warned. And let all who take refuge in the Son rejoice.
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> L O O K   A T   T H E   B O O K
> Where to Turn When Suffering Comes
> God gives us power — not to escape or avoid suffering — but to endure suffering while looking to Christ.
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> A R T I C L E
> He Descended into Hell?
> Where was Jesus after Good Friday? Becoming like us in every way, Jesus’s spirit went to Hades — not to suffer but to open the way to heaven.
> In Case You Missed It
> S E R M O N
> The Golden Stitches of Sovereignty: What Holds Our Gospel Together
> John Piper  |  April 8, 2019
> L O O K   A T   T H E   B O O K
> Will There Be a Rapture?
> John Piper  |  April 13, 2019
> A S K   P A S T O R   J O H N
> How Do Christians Survive in Middle-Class America?
> John Piper  |  April 10, 2019
> A S K   P A S T O R   J O H N
> How Does God Answer Today’s Skeptics?
> John Piper  |  April 12, 2019
> A R T I C L E
> Two Verses Held Me Through Suffering
> Paul Tripp  |  April 11, 2019
> A R T I C L E
> The Psalms Must Be Fulfilled: The Son’s Script and Strength for Holy Week
> John Piper  |  April 12, 2019
> A R T I C L E
> He Died a Thousand Times — and Lived: Adoniram Judson (1788–1850)
> John Piper  |  April 11, 2019
> A R T I C L E
> Is the Church Breeding Loneliness? Interview with Rosaria Butterfield
> Monica Geyen  |  April 17, 2019
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> F E A T U R E D   S E R M O N
> Irrevocable Joy
> Jesus offers joy that no one can ever snatch and nothing can ever steal. It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be lost. It is forever.
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> A R T I C L E
> No One Will Take Your Joy from You: Why Jesus Had to Leave the Earth
> How did Jesus comfort and stabilize his disciples when he went to die? He told them their sorrow would be short, and nothing compared with their future joy in him.
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> A R T I C L E
> He Sang in the Belly of the Earth: Holy Saturday in Hades
> For six days he had labored, and now, on the seventh day, he rested. In Sheol. In the belly of the earth. And while he waited, he sang.
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> S O L I D   J O Y S
> Daily Devotionals from John Piper
> “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” 
> –Matthew 5:11–12
> Loving your enemy doesn’t earn you the reward of heaven. Treasuring the reward of heaven empowers you to love your enemy. . . .
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> Read — or listen to John Piper read — today’s Solid Joys devotional.
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