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You want to take your Bible and turn to Mark chapter 3.

Normally I break and do something different on Easter, but I want to keep going to Mark today.

I think it's applicable.

So that's what we're going to do.

We're going to look at Mark.

He is risen.

He is risen indeed.

Let's try it again.

He is risen.

He is risen indeed.

Amen.

That's not a meaningless platitude.

That's not just something that Christians say.

That is the basis of our faith.

Paul makes that clear in 1 Corinthians 15, that apart from the resurrection, we have no hope.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the basis of the Christian faith.

It is the central, is the grounding of our central confession, namely that Jesus is Lord.

Philippians chapter 2, I've referenced it a couple of times already in prayer this morning, but Philippians chapter 2,

Beginning in verse 8, the Apostle Paul writes this, speaking of Jesus and being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.

Now we hear that and we often think that he's saying the name Jesus is above every name, but as we get

Later on, he's actually saying that the name that's above every name is Lord.

At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Because of what Jesus has done in his work on the cross and his being raised from the dead, God has given him the title of Lord over all of heaven and earth, over all of humanity.

Now Jesus has that, in a sense, like, by right of being God.

I mean, as creator, he already is the ruler over everything.

But he's given that title in a special way.

As he is in Daniel chapter 7, it talks about the Ancient of Days handing to the Son of Man rule over all peoples and nations.

And Jesus, as he is risen from the dead, takes that.

He'd already called himself the Son of Man throughout his ministry, but then

At the Great Commission in Matthew 28, he takes that language from Daniel 7 and says, God has given all of that authority in heaven and earth to me, not just as God, but as Savior.

He is our Lord who purchased us and paid for us.

He is our Lord who died for us.

Jesus is not just a Savior.

He's also now our King.

And this is tied intimately to the fact of his resurrection, Romans chapter 1.

As Paul is there in the very introduction of that letter, speaking about the gospel, giving a summary of the gospel.

He's speaking of Jesus who the gospel is concerning his son, verse 3 of Romans 1, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead.

Jesus Christ, our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship, to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of His name among all the nations, including you who are called to belong

to Jesus Christ.

Paul, as he's introducing himself in Romans, says the whole purpose of what I'm doing is to proclaim Jesus is Lord.

He's the promised Messiah from the Old Testament.

He reigns as Lord now, and he calls everyone in all the nations of the earth to bow the knee to him, to submit to him, and to practice the obedience of faith.

Some people

throughout the last couple hundred years especially, have tried to claim that that gospel, that Jesus died for sinners and he now calls everyone to submit to him as the Lord, that that is something that the apostles added after Jesus.

That that's something that people who became followers of Christ after Christ's de