He Is Risen!!

HE IS RISEN!

But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.  So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus.  As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.

The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive?  He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”

The most wonderful day in Christendom.  The reason we believe, and have hope.  We serve a living Savior.  The grave could not hold Him!   Good Friday looked like sure defeat....but that was not the end of the story.  He rose!  And because He lives, so do we, and eternal life is ours in Jesus Christ.

God the Father had a plan.  From the beginning.  Genesis 3:14-15 Then the Lord God said to the serpent,  “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild.
You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.  And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.  He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”   And that plan was for our salvation.  Believe, is all He asks us to do.  Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.  Accept His death as payment for our sins.  Believe that we are forgiven, and that He is risen from the dead.  He is God's son, and in Him we are adopted to be God's children.

HE IS RISEN INDEED!!