Easter Rocks!

Victory Can Be Yours!

Article #7 – “The Gospel”

This article was written for Easter weekend which is one of the two greatest weekends in the entire year.  This is an event or a special time which should be celebrated every week.  Friday through Sunday is a special time we can reflect on the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus.  The Apostle Paul wrote, “Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.” (1 Cor. 15: 1, 2)  This is the time for us to reflect on the gospel being carried out.

It is not about Easter bunnies, colored eggs, and baskets of candy, it is about the gospel as spelled out by Paul, “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.” (1 Cor. 15: 3-5)  He then appeared to over five hundred witnesses and James.  Then forty days later he ascended to be seated at the right hand of His Father in Heaven.  This event, some two thousand years ago demonstrated the tremendous love, grace, and mercy that God poured out upon us through His Son, Jesus Christ.  If this great event had not occurred, everyone born since the beginning of man would be destined to spend eternity separated from God in a place that Jesus call Hell.  What a horrific event for Jesus and yet a glorious event for mankind.

I began by saying that Easter is one of the two greatest events; the other great event is Christmas.  On Christmas, we celebrate His birth.  Jesus was born so that He could die for us.  Jesus said to Martha after raising her brother, Lazarus, from his grave, “Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.  Do you believe this?  She said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ; the Son of God, even He who comes into the world.’” (John 11: 25, 26)

What will your answer be to that question as we reflect and as we celebrate what God has done for us through His Son?  Praise God for His awesome love for us that He would send His only Son to die that we might have life through Him.

You, too, can have victory in Jesus!  More will follow.

Lowell Parrish