![]() ![]() It tells us that the spiritual is higher than the material, that spirit counts for more than matter.įor I remember it is Easter morn, and life and love and peace are all new born.įor God so loved the world, that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. The Resurrection asserts a truth which by no means is always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. For He departed, and behold, He is here.Īngels, roll the rock away Death, yield up thy mighty prey: See, He rises from the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom. Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer Death is strong, but life is stronger stronger than the dark the light stronger than the wrong, the right.Įaster spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.Īnd He departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, make the sacrifice.Įaster says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. ![]() We are Easter people and hallelujah is our song. I was no longer the center of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.ĭo not abandon yourselves to despair. God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, out of that knowledge I had been reborn. Does Isaiah 53:5c, And by His stripes we are healed, refer to physical healing 2. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and take up His cross. There are at least five ways of stating your question. Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes- undisturbed in form and position. 1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.” ![]() Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in His resurrection. Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. “He was wounded for our transgressions He was crushed for our iniquities on Him was chastisement that brought us peace, and by His stripes we are healed.” When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, “I Love You”Įarth’s saddest day and gladdest day were only three days apart! He came to forgive your past, give you a purpose for living, and a home in heaven. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. John MacArthur sheds clear light on the matter in his commentary on 1 Peter 2:24 (which, noted earlier, quotes from Isaiah 53:5 ): Christ died for believers to separate. ![]()
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