He is Risen!

Isaiah 26:19 “Your Dead shall live! Together with my dead body they shall arise!

Awake and sing you who dwell in dust. For your dew is like the dew of herbs and the earth shall cast out the dead.”

 ARISE AND SING

            Arise and sing! For our Savior lives!

We serve a risen Lord! He is not dead. He is not in the dust. He reins on high. He is coming!

I know I will live forever! In paradise with my Lord and Savior I will rejoice, forever and ever!

When my body goes to the dust, when my life on this earth is over, I will arise.

I will awake into a new life. I will sing and dance on glory clouds.

Why can I do this? Why can I, who am such a sinner, lay claim to a forever life?           One morning a long time ago, when the dew was on the grass, just as the sun rose above the horizon, the earth shook and a large rock rolled from the entrance to a tomb. It was my Savior’s tomb. Friday He died. Friday He bore my sins, your sins, and the sins of the whole earth on His innocent shoulders.

You see Justice demands blood. God is a just God and justice demands a death paid for sin. God can not tolerate sin. He can not be close to sin. When we have sin, which we all are born with for all men have sinned and fall short of God, with that sin God can not come near us. Justice demands there be a blood sacrifice to pay the price of our sins.

Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, God’s only Son, paid that price with His life. His blood that ran free at the cross didn’t cover our sins as the blood of sacrificial lambs of old did. NO His blood carries our sins far away.

So when the dew was on the herbs and the grasses, the earth shook, the stone rolled away and the sacrificial Lamb of God walked forth from the tomb. Life flowed through His body and He raised His fists in victory.

Victory over death! Victory over sin! Victory for all mankind!

He is the Way the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father but by Him. When I accepted Him as my Savior, when I asked Him to carry my sins far, far from me, I received everlasting life from Him. That’s how I can claim a life in His presence, as His friend and in Glory for ever and ever.

How about you? I ask you now, because I care about you.

Have you accepted God’s perfect Gift?

This gift of sins forgiven and lives made clean and fresh?

This precious gift of justice satisfied, of your debt paid once and for all?

The wondrous offer of a relationship with your Creator, the King of kings?

The adoption into His family and becoming His child.

Have you accepted God’s Son as your Savior?

Do you know Him today?

Have you asked Jesus to wash away your sins?

To come into your life and be your Lord?

If you have not, do it now. Right now. For eternity may start in a minute for you. In a flash, in a twinkle of an eye you may find yourself standing before the Judge of all man kind. And if your name is not written in the Book of Life, you will be cast forever from His presence and will spend eternity in torment.

I am not trying to scare you, I’m just telling you the way it is. Why take that chance?

Jesus paid the price. He satisfied the demands of justice. He gave His life in atonement for our sins. The Light of the world overcame death and sin when He stepped from the darkness of the tomb into the light of eternity. He holds the keys to Heaven out to any and all who will accept His gift. He is the Light. Accept Him now into your life and live forever!

Jesus says, “Behold I stand at the door of your heart and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with Me. And we will have sweet fellowship.” (from Rev. 3:20)

Jesus arose! He lives indeed! Those who accept Him as their Savior will live!

Arise and Sing! Hallelujah!

“He said to me, “It is done, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes (accepts the Savior) will inherit all this and I will be his God and he will be My son.

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters, and all liars (who have not accepted Christ as their Savior) their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (separation from God forever)” Rev. 21:6-8

“Now the dwelling of God is with men and He will live with them. They will be His people and God Himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” (the new earth and Heaven) Rev. 21:4