Please review these verses for Sunday Morning. I hope everyone is having a great Good Friday and a Wonderful and Worshipful Easter Weekend and Morning.
See Below:
What Does Jesus Do for Us? Jesus Lives for Us
Scripture tells us the reason Jesus went to the cross was to pay the price for our sins. His resurrection assures us of His, and ultimately our, victory over death. Simply put, Jesus died so we would not have to experience eternal death; He rose again so that we could experience eternal life.
That is what Easter is all about. It’s about having come to a point in our lives where we understand that we are sinners in need of a Savior. It’s about recognizing that nothing can save us from the penalty of our sins except the blood of Jesus. And coming to that recognition, we must accept the forgiveness of sins Jesus offers and place our lives under His control, that’s what it means to be saved.
Many people have a superficial understanding of what it means to be a Christian. They think that holding to a certain moral or ethical code will get them into heaven. Others think that joining the church or being baptized will do it, but Scripture tells us we must be born again, we must be made new in Jesus, we must pass from the death of trespasses and sins into the new life found only through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That’s what Easter is all about.
But not only is it a time to celebrate the new life we have in Jesus because of His resurrection, it is also a time for us to reflect upon what the resurrection means in our everyday experience.
Belonging to Jesus means you are no longer of the world. You may be in the world but you are no longer of the world and thus you will ever be at odds with the world.
The world hates us because our new life in Christ is such a contrast with the life they live. When we are surrendered to the point that the life of Jesus is seen through us, our lives serve to convict the world around us of their sin. Our lives force them to see themselves for what they really are and it’s not something they want to see.
We who were dead in trespasses and sins have been made alive in Christ, we have been born again, we live in a realm the lost world cannot understand and because we have this new life, because we have been spiritually raised from the dead, and our life is different from that of the world. The one distinctive which we should possess that makes us different is love.
If you really know Him, if you’ve really trusted Him, then live like Him. Don’t be a hypocrite. Don’t profess one thing and practice another. If you have really trusted Him, then your actions will demonstrate it.
Do you know Him? Is the evidence of His love visible in your life? Have you ever trusted Him? Are you walking in obedience to Him, or are claiming to be a Christian without any substantiating evidence?
Source: Whittman, Calvin. What Does Jesus Do for Us? Jesus Lives for Us. Retrieved March 11, 2008, from www.lifeway.com.
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