Resurrection Sunday

Hallelujah! Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Meditate on that. Rejoice.

And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. Romans 6:8-11

  

The Empty Tomb
Jerusalem

Hallelujah! The Tomb is Empty…Christ has risen from the dead! Imagine how overjoyed the disciples were…and all of His followers. Every year on Resurrection Sunday we relive this rejoicing. Hallelujah!

It is encouraging and exciting to know that we live because of Christ. His willingness to go to the cross…to die for the sins of each of us…is so encouraging, exhilarating, and emancipating. It is overwhelming that someone…anyone…would lay down his life for a friend…but to have the Son of God be that friend is just extremely humbling. Who am I that anyone would give up their life for me? And yet that is just what Jesus did. I’m the one who deserved to die on that cross…but Jesus did it for me…and for you. It was God’s plan for Jesus to be the sacrificial lamb…and to take away the sins of the world with the shedding of His blood. Then the miracle continued and Jesus was raised from the dead, just like He said.

"The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things," he said. "He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead." Luke 9:22

There it was. He told His disciples He would be raised from the dead. Didn’t they believe Him? They were surprised when it actually happened just as He said. It is easy for us to believe…being on the other side of the cross so to speak. And all of this was recorded for us in the New Testament. The disciples didn’t have that advantage. They were living it—and rejoicing in His resurrection.

Have you accepted the fact that Jesus died on the cross for you…that His blood can wash away your sins? If not, consider that today and believe it. It is the truth.

Prayer ~ Jesus, You said… I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. John 14:6. I believe in You. You are my Lord and my Savior. My Messiah.

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