JESUS HAS BEEN RAISED FROM THE DEAD

Mk.16:6,7 – But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.”

The day of the Resurrection has to be the most important day in the history of the world. Good Friday made this possible but until Sunday morning there was a shadow and grief on the hearts of God’s people. The resurrection of Jesus ended all of that, Jesus was alive and a new day had dawned upon the world. That is our celebration each time we gather to celebrate the Lord’s birth, the new age is not coming it is already here. Because Jesus is alive we are alive also and now it is our time to tell the world that He is risen. Here is how Spurgeon describes that beautiful day.

“Death was being upheaved, and all the bars of the sepulcher were beginning to burst. When the King awoke from the sleep of death, he shook the world; the bed-chamber in which he rested for a little while trembled as the heavenly Hero arose from his couch: Behold, there was a great earth quake. Nor was the King unattended in his rising: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven.…When the angel had rolled back the stone from the door, he sat upon it, as if to defy earth and hell ever to roll it back again. That great stone seems to represent the sin of all Christ’s people, which shut them up in prison; it can never be laid again over the mouth of the sepulcher of any child of God. Christ has risen, and all his saints must rise, too.”

So think about the ramifications of the resurrection, the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now dwells in me and you. We have Christ living inside of us giving us victory over sin and the hope of an eternal life with Him. We now carry inside of us the testimony of Jesus, the testimony is that He is alive and He is living powerfully today in and through His church. Tell somebody what He has done in your life, Jesus is alive from the dead and because he lives I live also.