Jesus: the Lord Both of the Dead and of the Living

Notes

Happy Easter! This sermon unpacks the theological and practical meaning of death, shows how the resurrection redefines death as a defeated “seed” that leads to new life for believers, and calls everyone—believer or not—to dethrone self and trust Christ for forgiveness.

7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. 

 The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Ro 14:7–9.