What Easter Really Means

The Story of Easter

Judus turns jesus in

Jesus goes between Harraid and Pilot

Nether of them find guilt but hands Jesus over to the jews

Jesus is stripped, flogged, and nailed to a cross

There he hug on the cross till his final breath were he says “Toltalastine or your debt is payed in full.

He is taken off the cross, put in a borroed toumb

3 days later Jesus rases from the dead,

over the next 40 days Jesus appears to 500 different people who spread the gospel many of which were killed or pursacuted for their believe in the resurescted christ.

Many know the stroy, but today we are looking at the reason, why Jesus walked through it all for us.

GCC Memory Verse

Romans 5:8 (ESV)

8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Peter 1:3–12 (ESV)

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

We Are Saved Because of Gods Mercy, grace and Love Not Because We Are Good

Ephesians 2:8–9 (ESV)

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Titus 3:4–5 (ESV)

4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

What the World give is temporary What God gives us is eternal

Matthew 6:19–21 (ESV)

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

We will still face battles, but now we can rejoice in them.

James 1:2–4 (ESV)

2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

John 16:33 (ESV)

33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

What will be your Outcome ?

We are all facing our eternity

Hebrews 9:27 (ESV)

27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Eternity only have 2 choices

Matthew 25:45–46 (ESV)

45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

What Is that Punishment? The Absences of God

2 Thessalonians 1:9 (ESV)

9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

How Can We Choice to Be With God ?

John 3:16–17 (ESV)

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.