Jesus Christ and Him Crucified!

Here we are at my favorite time, Resurrection Day!  After all, that has been the story in this blog if you have been keeping up with my posts. 

I refrain from calling it Easter.  Everyone can make their own choice of course. 

Reason:  Any time power if taken away from what God did through his Son Jesus, I discard it as fast as I can.  Without being boring, Easter is a pagan (non-christian) celebration.  Do your research on it and then make your own decision, Resurrection Day or Easter.  And by the way, bunnies do not lay eggs...just saying!

Now, getting to our Guest of Honor, JESUS.  God gave us His absolute best when he gave us Jesus.    (John 3:16).  He loves us so much that he did want to spend eternity without us, so made a plan to rescue us so that we can be with Him for eternity.  For that I am grateful.

The power that we experience through Jesus Christ and Him Crucified is under used in my opinion in the Body of Christ.  In the church that I attended as a child and as an adult, the focus on getting saved from hell was the only reason to accept Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.  Although that is the very best reason to accept God's redemption, there is so much more that we inherited once that decision was made to surrender our life to God through Jesus.

Spending eternity with a loving God...awesome!  If we read our scriptures about who we are in Christ Jesus, we can see that God lavished us with all good things.  Think about it, we belong to The Creator of the heavens and earth.  Psalm 24:1 tells us who God is and what he owns.  Do you think God redeemed us from hell to keep us in hell on earth until we die, and then we get the good life in heaven?  Of course the answer is NO!

But what do we see in the body of Christ?  Lack of power over our lives, sickness and disease, poverty, sinful living, faithlessness, and more.  We have to come up higher and live that abundant life Jesus talked about in John 10:10.  This verse tells us exactly who is the thief and who is the giver of life.

Sometimes we read these scriptures and look past what God is trying to communicate to us.  What does abundant life mean?  Is this after we get to heaven?  No, the abundant life Jesus is talking about is for the here and now.  There is already abundant life in heaven don't you think?  Or do we think heaven  has sickness, poverty and all the lack we see here on earth, so Jesus came to get heaven cleaned up? 
That just sounds crazy doesn't it?

We have access to abundant life here on earth through Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection from the dead.  We have the power to experience God's best.

SELAH!

On Resurrection Sunday and everyday, just ask Holy Spirit to show you how to live the abundant life that Jesus said he came to give.  It belongs to all of us in the here and now who have called upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

If you have not asked Jesus to be your Lord and Saviour, or if you need to re-dedicate your life to God, do it now: 
Lord Jesus, I need you and your saving power in my life.  I believe that you are the way, the truth and the life and that you are the only way to Father God.  I believe that you are the Son of God and that you gave your life for me to save me of my sin.  Come into my life Lord Jesus, I receive you now.  Thank you Jesus, Amen.

Now you are in god's care and his child.  There is rejoicing in heaven when one comes into the family of God, so you rejoice too!  I praise God that you made that decision, and welcome to our family,

Enjoy Resurrection Sunday, and we will talk again soon.

2 Corinthians 5:20