Easter

Most of the Christian world is celebrating the holiday of Easter today.  And it is a beautiful and powerful story; a story of sacrifice by a perfect man in order to bring salvation to His people.  A story of not just death in a cruel way, but of triumph over death, of being raised from the dead.  This raising showed that Jesus is God, a part of God, the child of God.  But it also showed that Jesus cannot be held by death, cannot be stopped by death.  And it showed that just as He cannot be held by death, neither can we.  We, as Christians, as followers of Him, will not die, but live on with Him forever, just as He promised.  He promised that He would be raised....and He promised that we would be raised if only we follow Him and His teachings.

Where I worship, in the church, we basically observe Easter every week.  We don't call it Easter, nor does the Bible.  We observe it every week because that is what we see early Christians doing as recorded in the New Testament.  Just before His death, Jesus took the Jewish Passover with His apostles.  While He did so, He taught them to take the bread and fruit of the vine in the future as a remembrance: "Do this in remembrance of Me."  This is taught in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, and 1 Corinthians 11.

We see an account of Paul and His companions taking the Lord's Supper to remember His sacrifice in Acts 20:7.  "On the first day of the week, we came together to break bread."  The early Christians worshiped on Sunday, the first day of the week, and made a point of remembering the death and resurrection of the Lord each week.

Praise be to God and to our Lord Jesus Christ who gave His life for us, suffering and dying, but then conquering death.  "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." John 15

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