Transcript
We're going to spend five Sundays talking about the family, and that's going to cover the Sunday of Mother's Day, and it's going to get us all the way to Memorial Day weekend. And the first two messages are about God's design for marriage. I'm going to encourage the wives on the first Sunday and the husbands on the second. This is for anyone who's married, anyone who's engaged, or anyone who's ever heard of the subject of marriage. All right.
So it's for everybody. And I think you're going to be encouraged. You'll hear some things, even if the passage is familiar. You'll hear some things biblically that you've never heard before. I can almost guarantee that.
And then we'll have a Mother's day sermon on May 11. The heart of a mother, nurturing faith at home. And then we'll follow that up with what every mom and every dad is concerned about, and that is raising their children, raising godly children in a broken world. Do we live in a broken world? Yeah.
We need this message. And then the one I'm looking forward to the most is Jesus honors His mother. Can't wait to deliver that message to you also. And so we start next week. I hope you'll be back.
Now, here's what I suspect. I suspect that you didn't come here today looking for a history lecture. And I also don't think you need a religious pep talk. Now, this is sermon time. But I hope that it doesn't feel whatever you think negatively about sermons.
I hope this encourages your heart today, because here's what I do know about you. You came with tough questions, whether you'll have the opportunity to ask them or not. You came carrying real burdens in your life some others will know about and some only you and God know about. You also appeared here today, some of you holding on to fading hopes and all of that on the day that Christians around the world celebrate a resurrection. But can we be real for a minute?
Dead people stay dead, except for this one time, and one man did not. One man rose from the dead, never to die again. That's why churches are filled today. Around the world is we believe this stuff. As Greg Gilbert put it, either the Resurrection is the biggest hoax ever pulled, or it's the most important truth ever revealed.
So which is it? Let's find out what the Resurrection means. And I don't mean just for ancient rabbis and Jewish leaders. And I also don't mean for how we got all these modern stained glass windows in church culture. Let's find out what the Resurrection means for in your past and for your pain and for your purpose.
Because let me tell you this, Easter does not politely knock on your door. It kicks it down. So here's what we're gonna do. Let's look at four ways the Resurrection makes a difference in your life today. And I'm gonna use four very familiar verses from the Easter story to do it.
Going to answer the question, what difference does the resurrection of Jesus make? If you're ready, just say yes. Well, number one, I got four answers to this question. The resurrection of Jesus confirms the truth of Jesus.
And here's the verse Matthew 28:6. Here's what the angel said to the women at the tomb that morning. He's not here, for he is risen, as he said, come see the place where the Lord lay. Did you know that the resurrection wasn't a surprise twist ending like a movie? Friends, Jesus called his shot.
He's not here. He's risen, as he said. And over and over again in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Jesus turns to his followers and says, look, we're going to go to Jerusalem. They're going to mistreat me there, kill me, crucify me, bury me. And three days, on the third day, I'm going to rise from the dead.
And every time he said that to them, they had no idea what he meant.
But because he called his shot, because he said it would happen, and then it did, that means that everything he said, everything he said about God, everything he said about forgiveness, everything he said about heaven, everything he said about hell, everything he said about judgment, everything he said about salvation, everything he said about himself is absolutely true. If you die and conquer death and walk out of the grave, we're listening to you, buddy. The apostle Paul laid out the details of the Resurrection, the basics, in First Corinthians 15, verses 3 through 6. It reads this way, Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.
And he was seen by Cephas, that's a nickname for Peter. And then by the 12, that's his apostles. And after that, he was seen by over 500 brethren at once. Hey, can we talk? If the resurrection did not happen, then Christianity is just religious theater.
It's just an act, a charade. It's just a put on if he didn't walk out of the grave. But if it did happen, then Jesus is exactly who he claimed to be. And that guy said he was the son of God. And that guy said he was humanity's only hope.
And that guy said that he was not a savior of the world. He said he was exclusively the only way to heaven.
Now I want you to think about this. The stone was not rolled away so that Jesus could get out. The stone was rolled away so that we could look inside. We know this because later, Jesus in his resurrection body just appeared through locked doors and through walls that were already closed up. Now that stone was rolled away so that you could look in and see if it's true.
That's why Dr. Johnson said the resurrection is God's. Amen to Jesus. It is finished.
Let me ask you, what would you find if you investigated Jesus with the same intensity you use for everything else that matters in life? I'll say that again. What would you find if you investigated Jesus with the same intensity you use for everything else that matters in life? Well, there's a man named Lee Strobel. He was an award winning journalist and a legal editor for a large newspaper in the United States, the Chicago Tribune.
He was an atheist and a skeptic. And he set out to disprove Christianity after his wife became a believer. He says, I'm gonna show her. And so he used all of his investigative skills, all that he learned in J school, all that his career had brought him to. He went and squeezed every turnip and looked behind every rock and he said, I'm going to make sure everybody knows this isn't true.
And after considering all the evidence, Lee Strobel became a Christian too. And he outlines his reasonable research and his personal story in the book that he wrote called the Case for Christ. And there's even a movie by the same name. I recommend both of them to you. When they interviewed Lee Strobl later, here's what he said.
He said, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an awesome life. He said, I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the son of God. Listen. The resurrection confirms the truth of Jesus. So let's look at just four quick pieces of the evidence.
Number one, the tomb was empty. That means that his body was not stolen. Neither was it misplaced, because if it had been, all the skeptics would have found it. The tomb was empty. Rome had fortified it with the signet ring of the Emperor posting centurions at the tomb.
No one's opening it up without Rome's permission. And they didn't get it. Heaven opened it. Empty tomb risen Lord.
After the tomb was empty, eyewitnesses saw him. We read he was seen by Peter, then by the 12, 500 other dudes. We read it right. The Christian faith spread around the world on the strength of eyewitness testimony. I saw him.
Eyewitnesses still win court cases today. And then one that I love that proves the resurrection to be true is that the first witnesses were women. Now, in 2025, that's not a big deal. We celebrate that in the first century. In the ancient near east, women were not considered to be equal with men.
Did you know this? They were wrong about that. But this was the reality. In fact, the rabbis had written in their books that women could not testify in court. You don't make that up unless it's true.
You don't wreck your own writing so that no one reads it and has no credibility by making women the witnesses. Unless that's what really happened in the first century. And then the fourth piece of evidence I want to give you is that Jesus disciples were absolutely transformed overnight. They went from cowards to martyrs. And may I tell you, nobody dies for something that they know to be false.
They gave their lives saying, I saw Jesus after he walked out of his grave. So why are you telling me this, preacher? I just want you to know that Christianity doesn't rest on blind faith. It rests on verifiable, reasonable historical evidence. The Resurrection confirms the truth of Jesus.
The tomb was empty. Eyewitnesses saw him. The women testified. The disciples were transformed. And that story hasn't stopped changing lives all the way up to the present day.
And you're sitting in a room full of people that have been changed by the risen Jesus.
Somebody wrote, if Jesus rose from the dead, then you must accept all that he said. If he didn't, why worry about anything that he said? So if the Resurrection confirms the truth of Jesus, here's the question. Will you believe it's real? If the resurrection is true, what are you going to do with that truth?
That's answer number one. What difference does the resurrection make? Here's answer number two. The resurrection breaks the power of death. Do you know these verses?
Luke 24, 5, 6. Why do you seek the Living among the dead. The angel asks the women at the tomb, he's not here. He's what?
Isn't it true that death is everywhere? Don't we lose people that we love wrecks our lives? Do we not battle disease? Do we not deal with depression? Do we not carry discouragement?
Don't we bury dreams? And some days, doesn't hope feel like a fantasy? But then the angel says to the women at the tomb, why are you looking for life in a graveyard? Why do you seek the living among the dead? Jesus defeated death.
Death used to be the final word. But Jesus changed all that.
He didn't just escape death, friends. He subdued it. And that means that death is not the end of the story for anyone who belongs to him and follows him. The Bible scholar John Stott wrote, we live and die. Christ died and lived.
I want to ask you something. If death is the worst thing that can happen to us and Jesus has already defeated it, what are we so afraid of?
It's illegal to worship God in China. Were you aware of this? But that doesn't stop the church. There's an underground church in China. And in the underground church in China, they secretly meet in homes.
It takes like a protocol to even gather the church because they can't all come at the same time like we did today. They have to sneak around and in. And under the COVID of darkness, they whisper their hymns. The pastor whispers his sermons. And the believers don't greet each other the way we greet each other.
They don't exchange pleasantries. This blew my mind when I read this. In the underground church in China, they don't say hello when they gather. They don't say, how was your week? You know what they say?
They say, is your name still in the book of life?
Is your name still in the book of life? Why would you ask that question? It implies that the real danger in a place like China is publicly renouncing Christ so the government won't kill you. They live under constant threat of imprisonment and death for their faith in Jesus. And a constant threat for defying the communist regime who forbids the worship of God.
But they do not fear it because they believe that Jesus has conquered death. Is your name still in the book of life?
So if the resurrection of Jesus breaks the power of death, then the question becomes, why live like death still wins?
Did you know that because of the resurrection, you can face death with courage? Because of the resurrection, you can face suffering with purpose. It's not meaningless. Because of the resurrection, you can face tomorrow with hope. I love how Tony Morita said it.
The cross shows us our sin. The resurrection shows us our future.
Our future is with Jesus, the risen Jesus in his resurrection body. So I want to ask you this question. Are you walking around in fear? Are you crushed under anxiety? Are you drowning in despair when Jesus already won the fight?
The resurrection breaks the power of death. That's the second answer to our question. Here's the third. What difference does the resurrection make? The resurrection offers you peace with God on the evening that he rose from the dead.
In John 20, verse 19, Jesus came and stood in the midst of his disciples. And he said to them, peace be with you. Now, if it had been me, I would have said something different. I would have said, check this out, right? I mean, I would have said, look, I'm back, right?
Jesus picks a phrase that's easy to forget.
The disciples were hiding in fear after Jesus died. They were ashamed. They were confused. Many of them were filled with regret. They were doubting everything.
And then Jesus shows up behind the locked door and through the wall, somehow, scars still visible. And what is the first word he says? Peace. Shalom. And I want you to notice that he doesn't scold them.
I hope that your idea about God is not that he's frowning at you all the time. We don't think people that frown at us really love us. He doesn't scold them. He doesn't shame them. He shows them his wounds.
And he says, peace be with you. And I got to believe that you might be living behind locked doors right now. The locked door of the fear of the future. The locked door of anxiety about your past. That's real.
How about this one? The locked door of regret over what you've done. Do you have cringe?
But can I tell you, today, Jesus is not afraid of your locked doors. And he'll come right in the middle of your mess. See, the resurrection offers you peace with God. Frederick Buechner wrote, the resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing. Hallelujah.
How much money would you be willing to pay to have peace in your heart? You know, in America, psychotropic drugs, antidepressants, anti anxiety stimulants make billions of dollars a year proving that we are willing to commit significant resources just to feel good about ourselves. It's booming business because it feels bad to feel bad. One of the truths that our generation most easily forgets is that to enjoy life, I need a clear conscience. If I want peace in my heart, I need peace with the one who made my heart And Jesus scars prove that the price has been paid.
And now you don't have to strive for your peace. You don't have to work for it, you don't have to earn it. You can just receive it from him. Do you know Romans chapter 5, verse 1? Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
What does justified by faith mean, Pastor? It means that in God's courtroom, when all the evidence was stacked against you and you were guilty, Jesus broke through the doors at the back of the room, walked to the front of his father the judge and says, father, I'll pay the penalty for all that's against this person. And when you believed in Jesus, he stamped your case not guilty. Tetelestai it is finished.
So if the resurrection offers you peace with God, my question to you is, will you let peace in?
Are you still locking the doors of your heart out of fear? Are you still locking the doors of your heart out of shame? Or will you let the risen Jesus speak peace into the dark place that you have?
Resurrection offers peace. Finally today, number four. What difference does the resurrection of Jesus make? The resurrection restores broken people. My favorite one.
The angels say to the women at the tomb in Mark 16, verse 7, go tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you into Galilee.
That one phrase, and Peter is one of the most powerful moments in all the Easter story. You may not know this, but Peter was one of Jesus closest friends. Peter was the recipient of some of the best grace Jesus had. Peter walked on water a few steps with Jesus before he began to sink. Peter uttered the phrase, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.
And Jesus says on that confession, I'll build my church. Later, Peter speaks and preaches that Pentecost sermon on the birthday of the first church. Peter was for all intents and purposes a strong believer, except on the night they arrested Jesus before they crucified him. Because on that night, Peter had three opportunities to stand side by side with his Lord, to identify his master and let the chips fall where they may. And all three times he says, I don't know him, never seen him in my life.
I'm not with that dude. And he stabs Jesus in the back after Judas stabs him on the cheek with a kiss. And he denies his Lord three times. And Jesus made sure that the angel named Peter tell the disciples and Peter, because he's included in this, that he's going to go before you. Jesus makes sure Peter knows you're not disqualified and I am not done with you.
The resurrection restores broken people. But you know as well as I do that this isn't just about Peter. This is not why I preach this on Easter Sunday. It's about everyone who thinks they're too far gone. It's about everyone who thinks that their past is too notorious for God to love them or for God to ever use them.
I want you to know this. Jesus does not flinch at your failure. He walks right into it. I want to tell you about a real life man named Nicky Cruz. Nikki Cruz was a violent gang leader on the streets of New York city in the 1970s.
One Night in the streets, he was confronted by a preacher named David Wilkerson. And Nikki Cruz, this hardened gang leader looks at this fearless Christian, David Wilkerson, and he says, one day I will kill you. And David Wilkerson replied, you could cut me into a thousand pieces and every piece will still love you.
It was a stunning answer to a death threat. Nicky Cruz never got over it. He saw something different in David Wilkerson. And wouldn't you know it, a few weeks later, Nikki Cruz goes from gang leader to follower of Jesus, the most unlikely of candidates. A brazen leader of a street gang was transformed into a powerful evangelist.
I believe you can read about it in a book called the Cross and the Switchblade or a movie by the same name.
Go tell his disciples and Peter.
Jesus wrote a comeback story for Peter and he wants to write one for you too. That's resurrection. Grace. The resurrection doesn't just rescue, it reinstates and it gives you a mission. Grace means that God looks at you and still says, you know what?
Let's get to work. Go tell. Because hope is not to be hoarded, and hope is not meant to be kept secret. And Dr. Henry wrote, the Gospel is good news only if it gets there in time.
And some of you almost missed it. But he got you here today, and you get to hear good news at least one more time. It got to you in time, and now you're responsible to do something with it.
Who in your life needs to know that Jesus is alive? Who in your life needs to know that grace has a name?
The question if the resurrection restores broken people is who needs to hear this from you?
And I think you need to think about that for a moment. But just for a moment, because I got a better question for you. The most important question of the day is not the ones I put on the screen already. It's this one. Have you responded to the risen Jesus?
I didn't ask you if you believed in God. And I didn't ask you if you'd go to church. I didn't even ask you after hearing the evidence I've laid out, if you think Jesus rose from the dead. I'm asking, have you ever surrendered your life to Jesus, fired yourself as your boss and hired Jesus to run your life?
Have you ever come to God the way that he's outlined that's appropriate to come to him by believing and by repenting, by faith and repentance? Have you ever come to God on His own terms and gone from, I tried to do it my best and I failed. Now I'm going to let Jesus do it because he never fails. Have you responded to the risen Jesus because Jesus did not rise again so that you could add a little religion to your routine?
You were made for God. That's why you're here on earth. But your sin separated you from your God. And then Jesus died for you according to the scriptures. And Jesus rose again to give you a new life.
And the reason we're filled with joy today is because it's happened to us and we're dispensers of it. And we want you to have it, too. So this is your moment. The stone was rolled away. Jesus is alive.
So I'm asking you, don't just celebrate Jesus. Respond to the resurrection.
And if you want to, if you want to have your heart right with God, if you want peace with God, if you want to be one of those broken people that he restores, if you'll just ask him, if you'll just call on his name, if you'll just take it seriously for a moment, if you'll just take inventory of your life, look into your heart and see if it's empty without Jesus. And if it is, say, jesus, what do you want from me? How do I do this? What's next? What do you expect?
You'll hear him say this, you have to believe on me. Turn away from your old life of sin. Let me be Lord of your life. If you want to do that, tell him in the silence of your own heart, right there in that gray chair, just tell him that right now. He's not looking at a script going, you better get this right.
Better not miss a single word. No, he's a good father.
He wants you be his child. On your ministry card, it's a place that says, what's next for me? The second box says, I'm ready to trust Jesus, or if you know the Lord, but you spent a long time. And you. You feel like the Lord's bringing you back to him.
The third box says, I want to rediscover my faith in Jesus.
If you want to apply the resurrection to your life. And this sermon was not just a talk that was polished for you, but it was. It felt like a word from heaven that, like lightning just struck in your chair. That was the grace and goodness of God. Just mark one of those boxes, put your name on that card, make sure that we can contact you some way.
And I'm telling you, if you mark a box, I'm ready to trust Jesus or I want to rediscover my faith, I'll call you myself. I want to pray with you over the phone. Want to get you every resource we can get to you. Want to help you. No obligation.
Just a prayer of grace from a pastor. What would that cost you? Absolutely nothing. Let's bow for prayer today. Lord, I pray that these cards get filled up with people applying the Word to their lives.
And I pray there's a whole bunch of Ann Peters in the room. You do your work, Holy Spirit. Don't allow the enemy to steal the seed of what's been planted today in the hearts. Don't let it be forgotten by the time we go to lunch. Master Evangelist, come and get them.
Amen.
Amen to that.
EASTER SUNDAY SERMON
Title: “What Difference Does the Resurrection of Jesus Make?”
Intro: Happy Easter! You probably didn’t come here today looking for a history lecture or a religious pep talk. You came with tough questions, real burdens, and fading hopes on the day that Christians around the world celebrate a resurrection. Let’s be real. Dead people stay dead…except for this one time. One man did not. As Greg Gilbert put it, “Either the resurrection is the biggest hoax ever pulled, or it’s the most important truth ever revealed.” So, which is it?
Let’s find out what the resurrection means—not just for ancient rabbis or modern stained-glass windows—but for your past, your pain, and your purpose. Easter doesn’t politely knock on the door of your life – it kicks it down!
Let’s look at four ways the resurrection makes a difference in your life today.
- The Resurrection Confirms the Truth of Jesus
Matt 28:6 “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
The resurrection wasn’t a surprise twist ending—Jesus called His shot. He said it would happen, and then it did.
That means everything He said—about God, about forgiveness, about heaven, about judgment, about Himself—is absolutely true.
1 Cor 15:3–6 “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day… and was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once.”
If the resurrection didn’t happen, then Christianity is just religious theater.
But if it did happen—then Jesus is exactly who He claimed to be: the Son of God, humanity’s only hope, the Savior sent from heaven, and Lord of all.
The stone was not rolled away so that Jesus could get out. It was rolled away so that we could look in.
- Lewis Johnson – The Resurrection is God’s “Amen” to Jesus’ “It is finished!”
What would you find if you investigated Jesus with the same intensity you use for everything else that matters in life?
illus: Lee Strobel was an award-winning legal editor for the Chicago Tribune. He set out to disprove Christianity after his wife converted. What did his investigation lead to? After considering all the evidence, Lee Strobel became a Christian too! He outlines the reasonable research and his personal story in the book, The Case for Christ. There’s a movie with the same name. When interviewed, Strobel said, “I didn’t become a Christian because God promised I’d have an awesome life. I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the Son of God.”
Let’s look at the evidence:
- The tomb was empty. Not stolen. Not misplaced. Just… empty. Rome fortified it. Heaven opened it.
- Eyewitnesses saw Him. “...seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. After that, seen by over five hundred at once…”
- The first witnesses were women—in a culture where their testimony wasn’t even admissible in court. You don’t make that up unless it’s true.
- The disciples were transformed. Cowards became martyrs overnight. Nobody dies for something they know is false.
Christianity doesn’t rest on blind faith—it rests on verifiable, reasonable, historical evidence.
The tomb was empty. Eyewitnesses saw Him. The women testified. The disciples were transformed. And the story hasn’t stopped changing lives since.
“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you must accept all that He said. If He didn’t, why worry about anything He said?”
So here’s the question: Will you believe it’s real? If the resurrection is true, what are you doing with that truth?
- The Resurrection Breaks the Power of Death
Luke 24:5-6 “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen!”
Isn’t it true that death is everywhere?
We lose people we love. We battle disease, depression, discouragement. We bury dreams. And some days, hope feels like a fantasy.
But then the angel says to the women at the tomb, “Why are you looking for life in a graveyard?”
Jesus defeated death.
Death used to be the final word. But Jesus changed all that. He didn’t just escape death—He subdued it.
And that means death isn’t the end of the story for anyone who follows Him.
John Stott – “We live and die; Christ died and lived.”
If death is the worst thing that can happen to us, and Jesus has already defeated it, what are we so afraid of?
illus: In the underground church in China, where they secretly meet in homes and whisper their hymns and sermons, the believers do not greet each other with, “Hello,” or “How’s your week going?” Instead, they say, “Is your name still in the book of life?” Implying that the real danger is renouncing Christ to the government. They live under the constant threat of being killed for their faith in Jesus, and for defying the communist regime who forbids the worship of God. But they do not fear it. They believe Jesus has conquered death.
So, the question becomes: Why live like death still wins?
Because of the resurrection:
- You can face death with courage.
- You can face suffering with purpose.
- You can face tomorrow with hope.
Tony Merida – The Cross shows us our sin. The Resurrection shows us our future.
Are you walking around in fear or anxiety or despair—when Jesus already won the fight?
- The Resurrection Offers You Peace with God
John 20:19 “Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’”
The disciples were hiding in fear after Jesus died. They were ashamed, confused, filled with regret, and doubting everything.
And then Jesus showed up—scars still visible—and what was the first word He said? “Peace.”
Notice: He doesn’t scold them. He doesn't shame them. He shows them His wounds and says, “Peace be with you.”
You might be living behind locked doors right now: Fear of the future. Anxiety about your past. Regret over what you’ve done.
But Jesus isn’t afraid of your locked doors. He comes right into the middle of your mess.
Frederick Buechner —"The resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.”
How much money would you be willing to pay to have peace in your heart? Psychotropic drugs (antidepressants, antianxiety) make billions of dollars, proving that we are willing to commit significant resources to feel good about ourselves.
One of the truths that our generation most easily forgets is that to enjoy life I need a clear conscience.
Jesus’ scars prove that the price was paid. And now, you don’t have to earn peace, you can receive it.
Rom 5:1 “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
So, here’s the question: Will you let peace in?
Are you still locking the doors of your heart out of fear or shame? Or will you let the risen Jesus speak peace into your life?
- The Resurrection Restores Broken People
Mark 16:7 “Go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee...”
That one phrase—“and Peter”—is one of the most powerful moments in the Easter story.
Peter had denied Jesus three times. And yet Jesus made sure he was named. “Tell the disciples—and Peter.”
Jesus makes sure Peter knows: “You’re not disqualified. I’m not done with you.”
But this isn’t just about Peter. It’s about everyone who thinks they’re too far gone, or their past is too notorious for God to use them.
illus: Jesus doesn’t flinch at your failure. He walks into it. Nicky Cruz was a violent gang leader in NYC. One night on the streets, he was confronted by a preacher named David Wilkerson. He told this fearless Christian, “One day I will kill you.” Wilkerson replied: “You could cut me into a thousand pieces and every piece will still love you.” It was a stunning answer to a death threat. Cruz saw something different in David Wilkerson and soon believed the gospel. The most unlikely of candidates, a hardened leader of a street gang, was transformed into a powerful evangelist.
Jesus wrote a comeback story for Peter, and He wants to write one for you, too!
That’s resurrection grace. The resurrection doesn’t just rescue. It reinstates.
Grace means God looks at you and still says, “Let’s get to work.”
And it gives you a mission: Go tell. Hope is not meant to be hoarded. Hope is not meant to be kept secret!
Carl F.H. Henry – “The gospel is good news only if it gets there in time.”
We are resurrection people—and resurrection people carry good news.
So here’s the question: Who needs to hear this from you?
Who in your life needs to know that Jesus is alive—and grace has a name?
But here’s the most important question of the day: Have you responded to the Risen Jesus?
- Not “Do you believe in God.”
- Not “Do you go to church.”
- Not even “Do you think Jesus rose from the dead?”
The real question is: Have you surrendered your life to Him?
Jesus didn’t rise again so you could add a little religion to your routine.
You were made for God. Sin separated you. Jesus died for you. Jesus rose again to give you new life.
This is your moment. The stone is rolled away. Jesus is alive. So don’t just celebrate Easter. Respond to the Resurrection.
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