Resurrection...

 Not Reincarnation!

Jesus died and rose from the grave with the same body, yet for the 19th Century many evangelical clergymen accepted a Hindu concept that implied that the risen Jesus was a copy and not the one who died?

This still exists today in the many false concepts about the resurrection and  many cannot accept this historical fact, beyond that of the atonement?

If Jesus did not rise from the dead none of us can be saved, since the Holy Bible is very clear that He did!

John 4:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:12-13, Philippians 3:10-11, Revelation 20:5-6.

EASTER! Three.

Arisen and Seen!

There are many Church going people who enjoy celebrating Easter, but they only go half way not believing in the resurrection? They think that to accept that Jesus died for their sins is enough, but they fail to see that they cannot be fully saved without the power unleashed by God in the resurrection of Our Lord?

We cannot enter into the promised New Life, without first recognising Jesus victory over the sting of death and the setting free of the captives! These are essential to having the full assurances of knowing that we have been called and chosen by God!

We need to understand today where we stand with God and know the essential truths of these serious matters in relation to our onw individual destinies?

Psalm 14:1,  53:1,  Matthew 13:25-40,  Acts 2:31,  4:2,  Romans 1:4,  14:17,  1 Peter 1:3,  2 Peter 1:10-11.

Easter. Part-Three.

Risen from the Dead!

Jesus said that he would die and rise from the dead on the third day, and he did! He was seen by well over five-hundred people between His resurrection and His Ascension back to Heaven, over a forty-day period.

Doubting Thomas is one proof, the broiled fish is another that he returned to us in the same body and was neither a ghost of some lofty Spirit! Jesus was the same flesh and blood as He always was, both fully the perfect, sinless man and God!

Now we come to the facts of faith-trust in relation to the resurrection of Jesus, because some cannot believe this to be a truth? Without understanding this key area of our salvation, we will not be delivered from the darkness of sin! In it we died with Him and rose with Him into the Eternal New Life!

John 11:25, 1 Corinthians 15:4, 12-13, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, 1 Peter 1:3, 8.

Resurrection.

Jesus said...

'He would rise from the grave on the third day' and he did, thus death or the sting of death has been overcome for us who believe in Him.

Matthew 17:23,  Mark 10:34,  Luke 18:33,  Acts 10:40,  1 Corinthians 15:4.

Over five-hundred people saw the risen Lord during His forty days on Earth, before He made His Acension to Heaven.

Acts 1:3.

Many people think that is the end of the story, but it is only the beginning of a bigger story by far.

Matthew 24:18, Luke 17:31, James 5:7-8.

Proof. Part-One.

Resurrection.

They say today 'that if you want proof, it is a case of seeing is believing.' But faith does not work on what is seen, but what is unseen and hoped for.  Hebrews 11:1-3.

All the Disciples had seen Jesus after he arose from the grave, but Thomas had not and he wanted to see it for himself.  John 20:24-28.

Today we have to believe in these Easter events by Faith. Hebrews 11:6.

Hammer n Nails. Part-Three.

Death and Resurrection.

They got Him killed, and they though that was the end of it?

But that was actually the beginning of it!

People think murder is the means to an end, but actually it is the beginning of their end.

Death could not keep Jesus in the grave, he died for us and he arose with the promise.

That if we believe in these works and say sorry, really meaning it we will be saved.

Mark 15:22-38, John 20:1-10,

I Fear No Evil. Part-One.

As I Walk Through....

What make you fear, the dark, your members, your enemies, the Police? 

We are all afraid of something from things that go bump in the night to facing up to our responsibilities and last of all the reality that we will all have to die some day.

But 'I will walk through the valley of the shadows and I will not fear! That is not for you, who do not believe.

But it is for you who do believe, that Jesus died in your place taking your failure on his body on the tree, stake, Cross and that He has arisen from the grave. Psalm 23:4.

I will not fear death, as I walk through the valley of Shadows.'