2. GRAVEROBBER MISSION CODE NAME: GRAVE ROBBER Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD Family Worship Center

3. MISSION: GRAVE ROBBER John 11:25-26 NIV Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

4. STAGE ONE: ENGAGE THE ENEMY

5. STAGE ONE: ENGAGE THE ENEMY  Accurate intelligence on the human condition.  Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

6. STAGE ONE: ENGAGE THE ENEMY  The frontal assault.  God enters the battlefield in human form- John 1:14… The Word became flesh.  To give His life as the ransom, Matthew 20:28.

7. STAGE ONE: ENGAGE THE ENEMY  The enemy tried to destroy Him before the ransom could be paid.  Jesus ultimately paid the ransom for YOU.

8. STAGE TWO: OVERWHELM THE ENEMY

9. STAGE TWO: OVERWHELM THE ENEMY  I Cor. 15:3&4 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

10. STAGE TWO: OVERWHELM THE ENEMY  “Pilate couldn't find any fault in Him. Death couldn't handle Him, and the grave couldn't hold Him!” Rev. SM Lockridge I would add… the tomb couldn’t keep Him.

11. STAGE TWO: OVERWHELM THE ENEMY  The Christian faith is not built on a foundation of philosophy or in a code of ethics. Our faith is firmly established on one foundational fact – Jesus rose from the dead.

12. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY

13. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY  In Isaiah 25:8 God prophesied He would swallow up death.

14. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY  In Hosea 13:14 "I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? "I will have no compassion,

15. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY  In Hosea 13:14 "I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? "I will have no compassion,  God had no compassion on death because all His compassion is directed at you!

16. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY I COR. 15 51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

17. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

18. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY 55“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”i 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

19. STAGE THREE: DISABLE THE ENEMY The resurrection isn’t something we celebrate once a year; we celebrate it every day!

20. MISSION: GRAVE ROBBER John 11:25-26 NIV Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

21. MISSION: GRAVE ROBBER John 11:25-26 NIV Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

22. CONTINUING MISSION DIRECTIVE “The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me — to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.” (Acts 20:24b NCV)

23. CONTINUING MISSION DIRECTIVE Invite Friends over tonight and Watch A.D. The Bible Continues, 8pm on NBC 26