HE IS RISEN!!
Easter is a wonderful and glorious time for a child of God. You see, for a child of God, Easter is not a time for bunnies, candy, egg hunts or new designer clothes to show off once a year, but a time of celebration. For the 33 1/2 years that Jesus Christ walked this earth he was mocked, laughed at, spit upon and eventually sentenced to death upon a cross. To any normal human being that stood there on that day when his sentence was carried out and did not believe he was the messiah to them it was the end. For those that sentenced him and helped to carry out the sentence through their shouts "crucify him" to them it was finally over. All those that shouted, spit upon him or laughed at him while following him with his cross to the top of the hill never realized they were carrying out the plan and will of his father. They were all helping God fulfill his plan of escape through the shed blood of his son Jesus Christ for the remission of all sin.
This is the glorious part about Easter and why we celebrate a death. Jesus told his disciples that in three days he would rebuild the temple. He did not mean a physical building, but he himself would come back whole again and ready to ascend back to his father. Three days after being placed in a borrowed tomb, Mary arrived early in the morning to place spices upon his body. An angel of the Lord was sitting upon the stone that was rolled away and ask her a question. "Why seek ye the living among the dead"? Praise the Lord!! That is why we celebrate still today because he IS alive and sitting at the right hand of his father right now interceding for us today. Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ then life would end at the grave, but because of his resurrection we also can have eternal life. Do you know the real meaning of Easter or do you know of the real meaning of Easter? You can KNOW him today not just OF him! May the true and real meaning of Easter be more real to you today than it has ever been.
God Bless,
Ken Smith, Pastor
CCOP
This is the glorious part about Easter and why we celebrate a death. Jesus told his disciples that in three days he would rebuild the temple. He did not mean a physical building, but he himself would come back whole again and ready to ascend back to his father. Three days after being placed in a borrowed tomb, Mary arrived early in the morning to place spices upon his body. An angel of the Lord was sitting upon the stone that was rolled away and ask her a question. "Why seek ye the living among the dead"? Praise the Lord!! That is why we celebrate still today because he IS alive and sitting at the right hand of his father right now interceding for us today. Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ then life would end at the grave, but because of his resurrection we also can have eternal life. Do you know the real meaning of Easter or do you know of the real meaning of Easter? You can KNOW him today not just OF him! May the true and real meaning of Easter be more real to you today than it has ever been.
God Bless,
Ken Smith, Pastor
CCOP
