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The resurrection of Jesus Christ has changed the world
This Easter things will be different.
We probably won’t be able to celebrate in the traditional way. You may be alone physically, but we are spiritually all together in the body of Christ through the resurrection of Jesus.
What if you had seen Jesus that first Easter morning?
What if you had been in in the room when Jesus appeared to his disciples after the resurrection? How would you act? How would it change your life?
What if we lived each day as if we had just seen the risen Christ?
This Easter, I invite you to think of Easter as every day. Jesus’s resurrection is also your resurrection. The more we can see the risen Christ every day, we will experience the presence of the Holy Spirit in the details of our daily lives.
I wish you a very happy Easter and I pray you experience the power of the resurrection more than you ever have before and that you carry that with you throughout the year.
Episode 25: Preparing for Easter in a Changed World: Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead
Blog post: Easter: Cross AND Resurrecxtion
Easter blessings,
James
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Bible References in this episode:
1 Corinthians 15:12-20 ESV
12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Mark 16:10, 11 KJV
10 And she [Mary Magdalene] went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
Luke 24:30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 39, 42 KJV
30 And it came to pass, as he [Jesus] sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
Mark 9:31, 32 KJV
31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Matthew 27:62-64 KJV
62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
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Matthew 10:8 KJV
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
