He is Risen!

https://odb.org/MY/2022/04/17/this-changes-everything

There is nothing more fundamental in the Christian faith than the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. Paul took great pains to preach this and was willing to be arrested so that he could preach the same to Agrippa, the Roman Emperor at Rome, the pinnacle of the known world then.

The whole of the New Testament is really about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the fulfilment of God’s promise to redeem mankind from the original sin. The second Adam had to become the Lamb of God to right the wrong done by the first Adam that we may be restored and one day may return back to the Garden of Eden experience in the new heaven and new earth as revealed to John and promised to all of us in Revelation 21, where we will once again be able to partake of the Tree of Life and thus conquer death and live for eternity as God had originally intended for mankind.

That indeed Christ was risen because if that was false, then we are in deep trouble as nothing else matters. Our lives will then be lived to fulfil only our fleshy wants and desires and death and sin would have won. We will die as we know it and it will all just end there. That is all life is about. No greater purpose, no divine plans, no calling, nothing. Our lives are our own. We don’t relate to God. There is no kingdom of heaven. It’s all just about living here on earth. We exist and then we perish like the flowers that bloom and wither away.

But Christ is risen! The first fruit of His own victory over sin and death! He is the example of what we will be one day, our hope of glory that one day we will all be risen too, in a glorified body just like Christ’s. Sin and death shall reign no more. Tears and sadness shall be gone and no more.

As we honour and remember Christ’s sacrifice and victory over sin and death today on Resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday – let us be like Paul and preach and proclaim Christ’s death and resurrection as fervently as we can. He is risen! He is alive! He has conquered death and sin for us. We will also likewise be victorious over sin and death through the blood and name of Christ! Let’s hold on to that hope for I know my redeemer lives and in the end, He will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God (Job 19:25-27). All this is truly a reality now with the death and resurrection of Christ! As Christ has risen, nothing else matters! Amen!