Hey all,
I hope you are having a great Easter weekend so far (even
with the rainy and cold weather). While we celebrate Easter tonight and
tomorrow, I thought I would share some scriptures that I have pulled together
as I have studied the Resurrection and the deeper meaning behind it’s
significance. I think we often can miss the real meaning of what Jesus
“rising from the dead” means to us personally as believers. It was not
only to prove that HE is God and to defeat death……but it was also part of HIS
great rescue mission for us personally as well.
2
Timothy 2:8-13 (Timothy states a “trustworthy saying” is that if we “died
with HIM then we can live with HIM”. I love what he says at the end……”if we are
faithless, HE remains faithful”. I don’t know about you, but I feel very
blessed knowing that Jesus remains faithful to me even when I don’t show my
faithfulness in HIM”).
8Remember
Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel,
9for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal.
But God’s word is not chained. 10Therefore I endure everything for the sake of
the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with
eternal glory.
11Here
is a trustworthy saying:
If
we died with him,
we
will also live with him;
12if
we endure,
we
will also reign with him.
If
we disown him,
he
will also disown us;
13if
we are faithless,
he
remains faithful,
for
he cannot disown himself.
1 Peter 1:3-4 ( Through the
resurrection, we have been born into a new birth and an inheritance that can
never go away!! Ever. All through his resurrection from the dead. )
3Praise be to
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us
new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead, 4and into an
inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.
Romans 6:5 (We are united
with Jesus through his death (release from sin) and his resurrection (new
life).
5For if we have
been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with
him in a resurrection like his.
1
Corinthians 15:54-57 (Death has no victory over God and HE gives us the
victory also through the resurrection of Jesus!)
54When
the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been
swallowed up in victory.” (See
Isaiah
25:8)
55“Where,
O death, is your victory?
Where,
O death, is your sting?”
15:55Hosea
13:14
56The
sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God!
He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
HE
IS RISEN…..
-S
