Jesus is ALIVE

On Easter morning some women and apostles went to Jesus’ tomb, expecting to find His body. But the tomb was empty, and the angel at the tomb told them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here. He is risen”. As Christians, we take comfort in the fact that our God became man, died for our sins, and was resurrected the third day. The grave could not hold Him. Death could not overcome Him. Sin could not defeat Him. Satan could not condemn Him. He lives! He lives!

Jesus Christ rose physically from the dead as proof that God had truly accepted His sacrifice, a sacrifice that afterward qualified him to stand and act as our High Priest. He conquered the grave and set us free! He tore the veil and reconnected us back to our father. 

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone and the very heart of the Christian faith. Without the resurrection, our faith is a fraud and what we profess is a facade.

Our hope of resurrection is that just as Jesus Christ was raised from the death state  in a body of glory so will our lowly bodies be transformed and made like unto His glorious body. He rose, but one day, you will too (Philippians 3:20-21). The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the beginning of our destiny. And our destiny is entirely bound up with Christ and His resurrection and His coming again.

Jesus Christ is alive, and His life is the essence of our relationship and experience right now

Beyond Being Resurrected, He is the Resurrection and the Life

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (John 11:25). In this statement, Christ wants us to understand that he wouldn’t just resurrect,He is the resurrection, meaning that He is the one that causes the resurrection to happen, by extension, He gives life and causes anything in a state of death to come around. Yes, Christ is risen, but that’s only half the story. The other half is that we must rise too. As followers of God, we must be continually seeking to “put to death the deeds of the body” (Romans 8:13) while walking in newness of life. God’s plan didn’t end at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. On the contrary, that resurrection set the stage for the rest of His plan—and the rest of our lives along with it.

1 Cor 15:54-55

“But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. “O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?””

Because of the resurrection, we are no longer afraid of the enemy called death, we speak to it.

Jesus is alive.