Easter Service
What Is Easter all about? - the whole story that makes us all here.
Not just what happens on Sunday, but also on Friday.
Good Friday cannot be separated from Sunday, or it is incomplete. [the whole story]
Easter cannot be separated from Good Friday.
Easter is not God's rescue plan 0r back up plan.
It was always God's plan.
It was always God's only plan.
Text
And I will cause hostility between you and the women,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel." Genesis 3:15 (NLT)
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,"Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29 (NLT)
10 For God's will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time. 11 Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the alter day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take aways sins. 12 But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place fo honor at God's right hand. 13 There he waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool under his feet. 14 For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy. Hebrews 10:10-14 (NLT).
1. God plan always was for Jesus to die for us. - not an after thought.
1 Peter 1 : 18-20 (NIV)
v.19 Jewish : golden can't buy Jesus
v.20 God didn't come to fix something that went wrong. Jesus didn't die so that He can fullfilled sacrificed system. From the very begining Jesus died to save our sin. Made us understand that :
- there is sin
- without blood, the person who sinned should die
- one man for all
2. God's plan always came at a cost to God.
Genesis 3 : 15 (NLT) ... his heel... - 0nly a wound
3. God's plan always was to raise Jesus from the dead.
Matt 16:21 (NIV)
4. God's plan was known, but not understood.
Matt 16 : 21 -25 (NIV)
The discaples was on the peak off the history, and then Jesus said, " btw, I'm going to die" - that, they couldn't belief!
What does Easter mean to you?
God has always loved you, and had a plan for your life.
God will always provide what is needed for His plan to succeed.
Whatever struggles you might be going through right now, God will do whatever is necessary to bring you through.
It is not a surprise for God, He has always known. He has already prepared a solution for you.
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