He is Risen!
Pastor Jake
Happy Easter Morning, brothers and sisters in Christ! Today, the most sacred of all days, we celebrate our savior walking out of the grave. The true height of the Christian calendar, we revere this occasion as the moment Christ conquered death and saved us from its sting. Paul aptly wrote,
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. (1 Cor. 15:14 ESV)
He wrote this knowing that the risen savior is essential to our salvation story. If he did not come out of that grave, he did not fully atone for sin. But as he walked out glorified, he proved that he carried the fulness of sin and death, bearing their weight to the final and fullest degree. There remained nothing left in the cup of wrath that was owed to you and me. He consumed it all. When he walked out of that tomb, he walked out a conqurer. What’s more, that same Spirit that rose him from the dead lives in you and me. Paul writes in Romans,
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. (Rom. 8:11 ESV)
Therefore, with sin atoned for, Christ having been offered in our place, wearing our sin and giving us his righteousness, we now celebrate as those who walk in newness of life!
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. (Rom. 6:4-5 ESV)
With resurrection Sunday on our minds, I ask you to join me in Matthew 28, as we read the story of Christ’s resurrection together.
Christ is risen, He is risen indeed!