“And
the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know
that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
He
is not here: for he is risen, as he said.”
Jesus Christ is risen. By the grace of God, we celebrate His resurrection each day. Through His sacrifice we have peace with God.
By His resurrection, we have life everlasting and not only life, but
life more abundant. We have a living advocate who knows our pain; our
trials; and the temptations we face. He knows them not because He
knows all things, but because He has taken on our flesh and walked in
our shoes. There is comfort in knowing His grave is empty. There is
strength in knowing that it is; “as
He said.”
Paul
reminded King Agrippa and Festus, “this thing was not done in a
corner.” The resurrection is not an event His disciples conjured
up after the fact. Jesus plainly told all who would hear that He
planned to die and rise again. The Sanhedrin could have put an
immediate halt to Christianity by simply producing the body of Jesus.
They were told by Christ that He would rise and obtained a guard
detail to secure the tomb. They didn't lack the will to prevent
Christ's resurrection; they lacked the power.
Heaven
and Earth will pass away, but God's word will never pass away. What
God says; He does because His word is laden with the power to bring
its message to pass. There is no incongruity between His words and
His actions.
“And
Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the
way, and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief
priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
And shall deliver him to the
Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third
day he shall rise again. “
These
words were as sure to happen as, “ Let there be light: and there
was light.” What Jesus said became reality. In this we have cause
to rejoice because He that said, “the third day he shall rise
again, “ also said:
“
I
am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in
me shall never die.”
“Let
not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In
my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that
where I am, there ye may be also.”
Happy
Easter!
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