The most important and wonderful significance of Easter Sunday: Jesus rose from the dead.
Rom 8:11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
“He’s alive!” These words came from every believer in the first months after Jesus risen from the dead. This became the way they greeted one another.
Now, in the modern era, since that first Pentecost, “He lives within my heart!”
Jn 14:19 Because I live, you also shall live.
Death – the separation of the soul from the body
The soul is that essential part of man that will never perish. Man, according to the Bible is “a living soul”. Man is nowhere mentioned to as a spirit. He has a spirit but he is a soul.
We inherit our spirit, soul and body from our parents. Our inheritance is passed onto our offspring in the same way that our parents and their parents, right down to Adam, received their natures.
Our eternal life begins from the moment of conception.
Sin is the cause of the death of our spirits even though we are alive and well in this world.
Only a miracle from God can revive that spirit in what the Bible refers to as being born again.
God said, “. . . . .You will surely die!”
Satan said “you will surely not die!” the deception, his weapon of Mass Destruction.
In 1Cor 2:14, the word of God through the Apostle Paul, “the man without the Spirit” as being incapable of comprehending spiritual things,
There is a death penalty for those who reject God’s offer of salvation. Rom 6:23
But by the wonderful grace of God, there is a free gift on offer, an offer of deliverance from sin and death (Jn 3:16) “Redemption”.
Redemption
Jesus became the only recognised sacrifice for sin. The OT rituals had served their purpose in pointing to the coming Messiah, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
After His resurrection from the grave. Jesus paid the price for every person; for every human being coming into this world as well as for those of the OT who believed in the prophetic future. They believed through the religious rituals and the prophetic announcements of God’s Word.
(Heb 11:39,40). “Only together with us will they be made perfect”
Rom 8:3-4 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
The same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is living in those who have received Jesus as their Saviour.
Jesus became the only recognised sacrifice for sin. The OT rituals had served their purpose in pointing to the coming Messiah, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
After His resurrection from the grave. Jesus paid the price for every person; for every human being coming into this world as well as for those of the OT who believed in the prophetic future. They believed through the religious rituals and the prophetic announcements of God’s Word.
(Heb 11:39,40). “Only together with us will they be made perfect”
Rom 8:3-4 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
The same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is living in those who have received Jesus as their Saviour.
“IF…” The spirit is living in you
He will also give life to your mortal body while you are waiting.
Does sin really matter?
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey-- whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness
Conclusion
The whole purpose of Easter Sunday, is to draw our attention to the powerful Word of God regarding our salvation.
1. Out of His love for you and me, and every other sinner in this world, God gave us a way out though the death of His only begotten Son.
There was a penalty that had to be paid for God to allow the greatest of His creation, the offspring of Adam, into His holy presence. Jesus, the ultimate Lamb of God, paid the price that we could not pay.
2. Now, because He took our sins to the grave so that we can, through faith, know that we are forgiven when we acknowledge that our sins are taken away.
3. But not only can we believe in being pardoned but we can now receive the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit to live within us because Jesus rose from the dead and has given us His Spirit of holiness so that we can have intimate relationship with our Creator, our Holy Father in heaven.
4. Easter Sunday is Resurrection Day; the Day that brought about the potential for us to enjoy intimate relationship with our awesome, almighty Father in heaven; the Day when Jesus finally defeated death and made it possible for us to live without the fear of tomorrow or the guilt of the past
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