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Why is Easter a big deal?
Matthew 27:27-54
Matthew 27:27-
Why did Jesus have to die on a Friday, like a criminal, on a cross?
Passover was the death of a lamb for each family to remember deliverance from the angel of death who Passed Over.
Buy on Monday, kill on Friday, place blood on the doorposts.
(1) Jesus was innocent
He did not commit a crime
He was a teacher, he advocated greater devotion to God, not less.
(2) Jesus was sinless
The substitutionary atonement of Jesus
He was God come ion the flesh
(3) Jesus was our substitute
(1) Jesus was innocent
He did not commit a crime
He died for you
He was a teacher, he advocated greater devotion to God, not less.
(2) Jesus was sinless
He was God come ion the flesh
(2) Jesus
(3) Jesus was our substitute
He died for you
When I think of important holidays I almost always think of Christmas.
Who doesn't like Christmas?
Food, family, gifts, decorated trees, outdoor lights, food, food, and more food.
And something about a baby.
You see, our culture seems to have forgotten that Jesus is the reason for the season.
But Easter is different.
The world keeps trying to make Easter go away.
Schools no longer call it Easter break.
We no longer get a holiday on Good Friday.
Stores keep trying to make it another holiday where you buy stuff that your kids don't need (and probably shouldn't eat).
But make no mistake, Easter is a big deal.
And why is that?
It's because when you have a baby, he can be just a baby.
He's cute, he's helpless.
Maybe someday he'll grow up but for now he's just a baby.
And people bring him gifts.
That's cute.
But Easter isn't cute.
And people aren't bringing gifts.
And he's no longer a baby.
He's a whipped and beaten and suffering man dying on a cross.
And he has a crown of thorns.
And he has a sign over his head that says, "This is the King of the Jews."
And there's a soldier at the foot of the cross saying, "Truly this was the Son of God."
And then he dies.
But he doesn't stay dead.
He said he'd rise again and on the third day the tomb is empty.
And that's a really big deal.
But is it a big deal to you? Christmas is cute, Babies are cute.
But babies don't tell adults how to live their lives.
Move ahead thirty three years and this grown man named Jesus is expecting you to do something.
He wants us to believe in him.
He wants us to follow him.
He wants us to pick up OUR crosses and deny ourselves and completely surrender.
He wants us to make a decision that not only impacts our lives now but also our eternities.
And that's a really big deal.
Do you know that Jesus died for you?
Do you know that he died to pay the righteous penalty of your rebellion and sinfulness?
Do you believe that his death was a substitutionary death, in other words, he took the punishment we deserved upon himself?
Do you believe that Jesus died, and was buried, and that God raised him from the dead?
Do you believe that he completely fulfilled every promise in the Old Testament concerning the coming of the Messiah, the Savior of the world?
Have you decided to become a completely committed and devoted follower of Jesus?
Have you shared this with someone?
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