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Orthodox Christians greet each other every year at Easter with the words:
CHRIST IS THE RESURRECTION HE IS TRULY THE RESURRECTION and some add JESUS LIVES!
Without JESUS' RESURRECTION, the foundation of our faith disappears, and we are to be considered "the most pitiful of all people", as Paul expresses it in 1 Cor. 15:18
When the women moved to the tomb, they neither expected to see an angel nor to meet the resurrected Jesus. They had brought ointment to anoint Jesus' body, and had perhaps expected to have some trouble with the Roman guards.
Suddenly something happened that NO ONE had imagined.
An angel steps forward, rolls the stone away from the tomb and sits on it. The guards have no idea and pass out.
How would we react if it happened to us?
Imagine that a few days after the funeral of a close friend, you go back to place a flower at the grave site and suddenly an angel sits by the fence and tells you that you can hand the flower to the deceased, who is also waiting for you out in the woods. How would you react? Would you, like the women we read about, crash back and float on a pink cloud, or would you believe that you were seeing and were about to lose your mind, because it is humanly impossible.
The women did not doubt, they did what the angel told them.
They tell it to the disciples, and we read that Peter and another disciple did not quite believe them, and wanted to see it for themselves - So they ran to the tomb, not at a light trot, but at record speed, I think.
IS IT NOT JESUS OF NAZARETH YOU ARE LOOKING FOR? HE IS NOT HERE HE HAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD.
We can also experience Jesus - in the midst of the unexpected, what we cannot see through in this time of wars and insecurity in the world, or in the midst of frustration, sorrow, pain, failure and defeat
JESUS CAME TO THE DISCIPLES AND REVEALED THE SAME HE CAN ENTER YOUR SITUATION AND BRING LIFE, JOY, LIGHT AND TRANSFORMATION.
The angels' message also applies today:
CHRIST IS THE RESURRECTION HE IS TRULY THE RESURRECTION.
Jesus has defeated sin and death. He has made a way so that we can boldly go to our Heavenly FATHER with all that weighs us down.
Paul writes about "the core of the Gospel:
"RESURRECTION OF CHRIST" It describes OUR RESURRECTION and in the last half of the chapter OUR NEW RESURRECTION BODY is described - A chapter that is often overlooked, but good reading, in the Easter days. 1st Cor. Chapter 15
Death, where is your victory? Death where is your sting? We praise God for all this.
IT IS HIM WHO GIVES US VICTORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD
"My Jesus lives, therefore I will live. My Jesus lives, therefore I am safe. My future is in Jesus' hands. my life is worth living because He loves me”
CHRIST IS RESURRECTED – JESUS LIVES
"HE LIVES, HE LIVES, YES JESUS LIVES TODAY. HE LEADS US, HE STRENGTHENES US, HE WILL LEAD OUR CAUSE. HE LIVES, HE LIVES, HE SAVES EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES. AND IF YOU ASK WHERE JESUS IS, HE LIVES IN MY HEART.”
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Then the disciple who had come first to the tomb also went in there—and when he saw it all, he suddenly understood what Jesus had said about what would happen to him, and he was convinced. For until then they had not understood what it meant when the Scriptures say that he should rise from the dead. John 20
HAPPY EASTER
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