NEWS HEADLINES: From The Resurrection Onward! * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Pastor Robb Goodman:

Hello and good morning to everyone. My name is Pastor Rob Goodman, and I am the pastor here at Zion Freedom Fellowship in Maryland, in the good old United States of America.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. Happy Resurrection Sunday to each and every one of you.

We have come through another year, and blessed be the name of the Lord, our God is good, is He not? Thank God, thank God.

Oh, when I think about what Jesus suffered on that day when He hung on that cross—

And I praise God that that was done once and for all. And now we can come boldly before the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace to help in our time of need.

Because God is open. He’s open to have us come boldly before His throne of grace.

Yes, His throne is established on grace, righteousness, the victory that Jesus accomplished.

No man, no demon from hell will ever be able to take away from us.

You and I are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us. Praise be to God!

We are conquerors. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony.

And when we speak the Word of God, Satan runs in fear—because he has no power against the Word of God.

Jesus defeated him. He spoiled principalities and powers. He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them.

Right in the midst of hell, He conquered them. He took away from Satan the keys of hell, death, and the grave.

Well, I’ve got a wonderful message for you today on this Resurrection Sunday of 2025. Praise be to God.

I will share that title with you in just a moment, but let’s begin our morning session with prayer.

Amen, and welcome to each and every one of you that are watching around the world.

Many of our followers live in other countries. Many of them live here in the United States.

But wherever you are today, I’m wishing you a happy and glorious Resurrection Day.

And many of you that live in the Middle East that watch my program—you guys have already celebrated at church.

You may even be in your evening service right now. But praise be to God, the Lord is good and His righteousness endures forever.

His righteousness endures forever.

So Father, we come before Your throne of grace and we thank You and we praise You that You are the same Jesus—yesterday, today, and forever.

You will never change. You will remain the same throughout all the endless ages of eternity.

You are God.

And I thank You that when Jesus rose from the dead, He told His disciples—or told Mary Magdalene—

“I will go to My Father and to your Father, and to My God and to your God.”

Isn’t that wonderful? That Jesus made us brothers and sisters, and God is now our Father.

There was no way that any of us could have kept the law of Moses and become righteous.

But no—Jesus, He became everything in our place.

And He gave us the gift of righteousness, so that we don’t have to ever worry or fear anymore that God will not accept us.

Because He’s made us accepted in the Beloved.

We are accepted in Him, and He loves us. He loves us so very much.

May His name be praised and glorified in your life forever and ever, because He loves you so much.

I’ll give you an invitation to come to know Jesus at the end of the broadcast.

But Lord, I ask You to bless this teaching today. Bless it. Open up the eyes and the ears of the people that are listening today.

Lord, cause this Word to separate both soul and spirit, and go deeply into the joints and the marrow.

And may it discern all the inward thoughts that we have, Lord—whether they be right, good, or not good.

Lord, cleanse us and make us holy in Your presence. Lord, because You have made us holy and accepted in the Beloved.

In the family of God, we are accepted and we have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

Praise be to God forever ever more. Amen. Amen.

Well, I’m going to share with you very quickly the title of my message today.

The title of today’s message is: “From the Resurrection and Onward.”

Amen. From the Resurrection and Onward.

So what happens when you first come to know Jesus Christ as your Lord and your Savior?

What exactly happens?

We’re going to talk about that in great detail. We’re going to share some wonderful scriptures with you.

And you know—take some time to write these scriptures down so that you can meditate on them.

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And I’m going to share from my notes.

When we are first born again, we are super excited and instantaneously changed.

I know the day that I got saved, I was instantaneously delivered from drug abuse.

Now, there were other things in my life that took much longer to get out.

And we all struggle with different issues. But God never, never ever gives up on the change process.

And blessed be the Lord’s name. You and I—He will cause us to triumph in Christ Jesus.

He will cause us to triumph, and we will make it through. Amen.

So once we’re instantaneously changed, the weight and the burden of sin is gone from our lives.

But this is just the beginning.

The transformation process begins as we first start to walk with Jesus in our daily lives.

So every day, we must spend time in the Word of God.

We must seek the face of the Lord, and you must seek to understand Him—

And to know Him in an intimate way. That is so important.

All right, let’s go ahead and read John chapter 20, and then I’ll share some more notes with you.

John chapter 20—and we’re going to start reading with verse 1.

Let me get a drink here real quick, keep my whistle wet.

Right? You’re all used to seeing me drink.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene—

Now remember that Mary was a prostitute and Jesus redeemed her—

And I love how The Chosen, in Season One, how Jesus brings deliverance to Mary.

And she begins to be a follower—a very first close follower of Him.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark,

And saw the tombstone had been taken away from the tomb.

Then she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,

And said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb.

So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first.

And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there, yet he did not go in.

Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb.

And he saw the linen cloths lying there—

And the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.

Now this is a very interesting part here that we’ll get to in a little bit.

Then the other disciple—talking about John, talking about himself.

And so neat how John humbly talks about himself—“That other disciple whom Jesus loved.”

Well praise be to God, at least he knew that Jesus loved him, right? Wow, that’s amazing.

Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also.

And he saw and believed.

Now this is an interesting fact—John, when he went into the tomb and he saw everything,

He knew right then and there that something supernatural had happened.

Praise be to God.

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For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead.

Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb.

And she saw two angels in white sitting—one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain.

Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”

She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?”

I get choked up when I read this, I’m sorry about that.

She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him,

“Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

When He says the sound of your voice—you know it, don’t you? You know it.

She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher).

Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father.

But go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

Now I’m going to stop there, because we all know what happens after this—

The disciples were together in the evening, and Jesus appeared to them. Praise be to God.

All right, now let me go back to my notes.

I gotta wipe my eyeballs out of here, guys. Sorry about that—all teared up and then I can’t see.

You know, if the story of the Resurrection doesn’t move you—

I have to wonder, do you really know the Lord?

Because when you really know Him, and you imagine what He went through—

It’s just… it’s just hard to believe, you know?

And He did it because He loved you.

He did it because of love.

Wow. That’s amazing.

Mary Magdalene went to the tomb very early in the morning while it was still dark.

It was probably just starting to get a little bit light.

Mark says that there were—Mark the gospel writer says that other women also went to the tomb.

This is why Mary says that “we” found the tomb empty.

She’s speaking in plural terms there, right? “We”—more than one person—“we found the tomb empty.”

But I believe that John, because he first heard Mary, he mentions her and he doesn’t mention the other women.

Mark chapter 16 does mention the other women that were there at the tomb.

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So when she came back, because she was sent to tell the other disciples what had happened—“Tell My brethren”—

She was the first evangelist. The first woman to be commissioned to share about Jesus’ Resurrection.

Oh, how wonderful.

Now I want to share some interesting notes with you.

A typical rich man’s tomb of that time would be large enough to walk into, with a place to lay out the body on one side,

And a bench for mourners on the other side.

Now remember that Joseph of Arimathea—this was his tomb.

You know, it was a new tomb, and it was made probably for his burial.

Because rich men back in that time, they would prepare for their family’s future and also for their own burial—

What they wanted done and how they wanted it done, just like some people do today.

So the bench for mourners on the other side—

The entrance might be an opening only about three feet or one meter high and two and a half feet or 75 cm wide.

It was large enough to get into, yet there was a bit of bowing and turning necessary to be able to get into it.

There was some commitment needed to go inside the tomb.

And for some reason, John did not go in right away.

That’s kind of interesting to think about—why didn’t John go in?

Then the Scripture said that Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb.

Whatever kept John from going in didn’t stop Peter.

When he finally arrived, he immediately went into the tomb.

This action-oriented impulsiveness was very characteristic of Peter.

John wanted to stop and think about it, and Peter went right in.

In other words, John wanted to sit there and think.

He probably had a great respect for the dead as well, and he just wanted to think about it.

You know—what’s going on here? What happened? Why is this stone rolled away?

I’m sure he was probably praying under his breath, really worried and concerned about where the body of Jesus was.

John wanted to stop and think about it, but Peter went right in.

He saw the linen cloths lying there.

Going in, Peter saw.

Okay, the ancient Greek word which is theōrei—I believe—is like “theory.”

Theōrei, spelled t-h-e-o-r-e-i.

And what it means in the Greek—it means to contemplate, observe, and scrutinize.

So he was thinking like—why are the cloths lying here? Why is everything like this?

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And of course, the burial process was not yet complete.

And I’ll talk about that in a few minutes here as well, because it was the Sabbath day.

It was late in the day. They had to get Jesus into the tomb by sundown.

And it was really important for that to happen in the culture of that time.

Well, John was contemplating, observing, and scrutinizing.

Why were the cloths still orderly and neat? What made this happen?

It looked as if the body of Jesus evaporated out of the burial wrappings without disturbing their place.

I personally believe—this is my personal feelings—that the Shroud of Turin is real.

Even as of today, the scientists have been able to tell exactly what Jesus looked like and how He appeared during that time.

Jesus was a very strong man. You see muscles on His chest, His arms—He was a carpenter.

He wasn’t weak, you know? And of course, He had a strong, perfect body without sin.

He was without sin. Jesus never sinned.

He was the perfect Lamb of God that has taken away the sin of the world.

The perfect sacrifice. Amen.

He was the perfect… the perfect—what’s the word I’m looking for—He was the sacrificial Lamb.

He was the Passover Lamb. Praise be to God.

The phrasing of “linen cloths lying there and folded together in a place by itself”

Indicates the orderly arrangement of the burial wrappings prepared for burial.

These strips of linen cloths were smeared with ointments and aloes and spices.

And fine linen cloths were applied in several layers.

The burial of Jesus on the day of His death was hurried, and the women came early Sunday morning to apply more layers.

Rick Renner says—he’s a great Greek expositor, he knows Greek very well and teaches it wonderfully—

He says that Joseph of Arimathea brought 100 to 150 pounds in aloes and burial ointments and spices.

Jesus’ burial cloth was filled with these types of things.

There were mixtures of ointments and also spices, and they would dry and harden over a period of time.

Kind of like making a mummy or a cocoon.

It would harden. The normal removal of these burial wrappings would require some tearing or cutting.

Peter saw that it was no normal removal of the burial wrappings.

The whole point of the description is that the grave clothes did not look as if they had been put off, taken off, or torn off.

They were lying there in their regular folds, as if the body of Jesus had simply evaporated out of them.

That is amazing.

You see, when Jesus was raised from the dead—

And of course, the Shroud of Turin shows these radiations that put that image into His cloth—

I mean, it’s just amazing when you think about it.

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And they can extrapolate from those images what Jesus actually looked like.

It’s amazing. It really is amazing when you think about it.

Like I said earlier, I truly believe that the Shroud of Turin is completely and totally real. No doubt about it.

No doubt about it in my mind. But everybody has their own personal opinions, right?

The neat, orderly arrangement of the linen cloths showed that a human hand—at least not in any way that was immediately apparent—

Did not remove the burial wrappings of Jesus.

All this demonstrated that something absolutely unique had happened in that now empty tomb.

The glory of God. That Jesus Christ was raised by the glory of God.

Romans 8 talks about that.

And if the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you—

He will also quicken, or make alive, your mortal bodies—your flesh—by His Spirit that lives and dwells in you.

We’ve got this treasure, 2 Corinthians chapter 4 says, in our earthen vessels.

That the excellence of the power may be of God and not of ourselves.

We cannot take credit for anything. All the glory be to Jesus. Amen. All the glory be to Him.

Thank You, Lord.

The fine linen cloths were orderly—not just removed in any normal way by the person wrapped in them.

It could not have happened. The linen cloths were orderly.

Not removed by grave robbers or vandals.

This was proof that the disciples had nothing to do with Jesus’ body being gone from the tomb.

This is what the priests always tried to say is what happened—

That the body of Jesus had been taken by His disciples.

Well of course we know that’s not real, correct? We know that that is not real.

Just checking my time here, folks.

It’s just amazing when you think about it.

We will be raised in the likeness of Jesus. Oh praise be to God.

Man, I’m telling you.

“I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts.

And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

There you have it right there.

Their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more.

Done. Did. Over. Got the t-shirt.

I got the bloodstained t-shirt. Amen.

Absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing.

All right, the last scripture that I want to look at today is Philippians chapter 3.

Philippians chapter 3.

And I’m going to start with verse 8:

“Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord,

For whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him—

Not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ,

The righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection,

And the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

If, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”

There you have it, folks. That is it in a nutshell.

I pray God that this message has been a blessing to you.