Luke ch23 vs33-34, 44-56, ch24 vs1-9.
1st Corinthians ch15 vs3-4.
The Gospel is a simple message.
However, what does Easter mean to you? Is it about commerce,
holidays, family?
What Easter means to the speaker is written in 15 words from
1st Corinthians:
1) Christ
died for our sins
2) and
that he was buried
3) and
that he rose again
Are you thankful Christ came and died for your sins?
“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation,
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”.
When we call Him Saviour, we call Him by His name.
Former astronaut John Glenn whilst orbiting and observing
the Earth, thanked God that His Son came to this Earth and died for him.
Jesus Christ lived a perfect, holy life for 33½ years ,
bringing pleasure to His Father.
He never sinned, He was unique – 2 reasons – to glorify God
and to go to Calvary ’s cross to pay the price
of our sins.
He knew what laid before Him – the suffering and shame of
being crucified and made sin – but still went all the way to Calvary
for each of us. 300 years later, Emperor Constantine banned death by
crucifixion as being too horrendous.
Are your sins forgiven? Have you repented and by
faith accepted Christ as your personal Saviour, through His shed blood, death
and resurrection? If not, believe tonight, as we are never promised another
opportunity tomorrow – “Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation”.
In those 3 hours of darkness upon the cross, judgement was
laid upon Christ
Physically, He was dead. Loving arms took His dead body down
from the cross. His dead body was placed in a tomb. A large stone was rolled
across the entrance and sealed. Buried and proof of death. However, three days
later the stone was rolled away and the grave was empty – He rose again, and is
alive for evermore.
Millions of people visit shrines and look down to the dead,
but we look up to our living Lord and Saviour.
He is coming again soon, make sure you are going to Heaven
and not the awful reality of Hell - the place for those with unforgiven sins.
Be saved from that, and let the Lord Jesus take you to an eternal home in Heaven.
Trust in Him – the best is yet to come.
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