The Greatest Love ever known
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Why does Easter matter
Why does Easter matter
What makes Christianity different that so many other religions? Where in Islam or in mormonism or in Buddhism ect its about what you do your works how good you are. But we who belive in the one true God have something much better than that.
We have a relationship not a religion. Its about what God did for us not what we can do for God we have been set free
For Many people Christmas and Easter are the only two times a year that they find their way into church. Why? Why then? is it tradition? is it expectations? is there something in the back of our conscience that reminds us what a Glorious day this holiday season is?
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Jesus Died He was buried and on the third day Jesus defeated the grave He rose Again
He did so for You for You! His love is unimaginable unlimited never-ending reckless kind of love
His love was so deep He took time to Pray for you! Knowing that He would die for you He prayed for you.
1. Jesus Prayed for you
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
John 17
2. Jesus’s love was shown as He walked to the Cross
John 19:17-37
At the age of 33,
Jesus was condemned to death .
At the age of 33,
Jesus was condemned to death .
At the time
Crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst
Criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was
Even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike
Other criminals condemned to death by
Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the
Cross by His hands and feet.
Each nail
Was 6 to 8 inches long.
Most historian believe The nails
Were driven into His wrist. Not
Into His palms as is commonly
Portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that
Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew
That when the nails were being hammered into the
Wrist that tendon would tear and
Break, forcing Jesus to use His back
Muscles to support himself so that He could
Breathe.
Both of His feet
Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to
Support Himself on the single nail that
Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could
Not support himself with His legs because of the pain
So He was forced to alternate between arching His
Back then using his legs just to continue to
Breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the
Suffering, the courage.
Jesus endured this
Reality for over 3 hours.
Yes,
Over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of
Suffering? A few minutes before He died,
Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water
From his wounds.
From common images
We see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound
To His side... But do we realize His wounds
Were actually made in his body. A hammer
Driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped
And an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a
Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But
Before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and
Beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the
Flesh from His body. The
Crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men
Would not have survived this torture.
He had no more blood
To bleed out, only water poured from His
Wounds. every drop of blood was poured out for you
To the last drop of blood there we find our path of Salvation
by the Justification by Christ through our Faith in Him
Jesus poured all 3.5
Liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His
hands and feet; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond
That, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His
Chest.
And Jesus Prays for you again
34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”
And they divided His garments and cast lots.
Jesus had
To endure this experience, to open the
Gates of Heaven,
So that you can be set free from the slavery to sin
So you may have Access to God.
Jesus had
To endure this experience, to open the
Gates of Heaven,
So that you can have free
So you may have Access to God.
That you may be redeemed made righteous through Him
So that your sins
Could be "washed" away. All of them, with no exception!
Don't you ignore this situation. This is not some Childhood story this is the reality.
He died for you! It
Is easy to pass jokes or foolish photos by e-mail, but
When it comes to God, sometimes you feel ashamed.
He went to the cross willingly as a lamb led to the slaughter as atonement for your sin
Will you share the greatest story that has ever happened
Jesus Died for you
so that by Faith in Him you are Justified to the Father.
God
Has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced
To save you.
3. Jesus loved you, He Prayed for you, He died for you, and He defeated the Grave for You!
The death of Christ as grusum as it was would have ment nothing without the resurrection
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
John 17:
1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.”
3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture, that He must rise again from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes.
John 20:1
10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” 27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
JESUS
CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!
John 20:26
He died for you! It
Is easy to pass jokes or foolish photos by e-mail, but
When it comes to God, sometimes you feel ashamed.
He went to the cross willingly as a lamb led to the slaughter as atonement for your sin
Will you share the greatest story that has ever happened
Jesus Died for you
so that by Faith in Him you are Justified to the Father.
God
Has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced
To save you.