Sunday, April 5, 2015

As He Said.

      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:

      “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. “

      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.”

      And, “ I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

Happy Easter!

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