It's a Pretty Big Deal

Yesterday Christians all over the world celebrated what has come to be called Easter. Our congregation prefers to call it Resurection Sunday.

Why?

Because that's what it really is and it removes the pagan aspect of the word Easter from what is Christianity's holiest day.

On that Sunday some 2000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth, the step-son of a carpenter, fulfilled prophesies written hundreds of years before His birth, and fulfilled His own prophesy of Himself. Jesus said "Tear down this temple and in three days I will rebuild it." Of course, the Jewish leaders of the day didn't understand what he was saying.

Jesus was speaking of His own death and resurection.

Had Jesus not been resurected He would have been a liar and a fraud. Our faith would be in vain and empty. We would sit in Sunday worship for no reason, we would pray to an impotent god, and we would still be dead in our trespasses and sins.

But He did rise from the dead.

He died that we might live, and lives that we might never die.

He proved who He is.

He is our Lord. He is our God.

And He is worthy of our worship and praise.

The tomb is empty.

And that is a FACT!