The IF Advantage

RESURRECTION SUNDAY 2026

Scripture: Romans 8:11 ESV IF the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Title: The IF Advantage

  • If he dwells in you You have an advantage 

  • Not over others, over the non-IF version of you

  • Jesus don’t raise himself, the Spirit raised him

  • If that same spirit dwells in you… LIFE

Biblical Resurrections Before Jesus’

  • The Widow of Zarephath's Son: 1 Kings 17:17-24

  • The Shunammite Woman's Son: 2 Kings 4:32-37

  • The Man Placed In Elisha's Grave: 2 Kings 13:20-21

  • Lazarus: John 11:1-44

  • After Jesus' Death: In Matthew 27:52-53

The Truth About Death

  • Death Was/Is Not The Will Of God - Genesis 2:17 (ESV) but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

  • Death Is The Work Of Satan - John 10:10 (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

  • We Invited Death’s Into Our Lives VIA Sin - Romans 5:12 (ESV) Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

  • Jesus Came To Destroy Death - 1 John 3:8 (ESV) The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

  • Death Will Be Destroyed in The Future 1 Corinthians 15:26 (ESV) The last enemy to be destroyed is death.


The IF Factor…

Romans 8:11 ESV IF the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.


The SPIRIT Will Give You FREEDOM

  • 2 Corinthians 3:17 (ESV) - the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

The SPIRIT Will Give You POWER

  • Romans 8:26 (ESV) Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

  • Ephesians 3:16 (ESV) that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

The SPIRIT Will Give You Fullness

  • Acts 1:8 (ESV) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

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