EASTER?

What does it Mean!

The world is finding excuses everyday to get away from God, from Jesus and from the Holy Bible, because they want to live their lives their own ways without Him interfering, just the same way Jesus was misunderstood by Israel over two thousand years ago?

What they wanted was to be delivered from Roman occupation, today people want the freedom to sin, dishonesty, lies and sexual deviancy and so they misunderstand that Jesus is our suffering servant, who has come to invite us home to eternity by His blood making that atonement for sin, if we would surrender in repentance to Him and discover His forgiveness!

It is getting harder to preach or share the Gospel with many people being offended, while others find the language offensive and they complain to undermine the truth, since most today in the Kosmon are living in the delusions of the age!

Psalm 51:1-5, Isaiah 53:1-12, 2 Corinthians 2:14-16, Hebrews 2:15-18, 4:12-13, 9:26-27, 10:10, 15, Jude 1:6-7.

The message we tend to Forget?

After the big rush of Easter.

These three verses are more associated with Christmas and the birth of the Jewish Messiah Jesus, they are hardly mentioned even in passing to the whole picture of the story, mostly because of the fulfilment of Jewish law of both prophetic revelation and Jesus circumcision on the eight day?

But this week we want to keep in focus the light to the Gentiles and the Light of Jesus that is constantly shining out into our dead world, that will bring hope to all in despair from conflicts, wars and social-economic woes, since God will meet with us where and what ever circumstances we may find ourselves in!

Luke 2:29-32, Psalm 98:2, John 8:12, Acts13:47,26:23.

Easter. One.

Purchased from the curse of the Law!

Sometimes the message of Easter can be too focused on the Cross and all other events, but not on some of the essential doctrines of the full meaning of the work that Jesus undertook for us by his sacrifice and the importance of that?

The Old Testament is full of being redeemed, since this was both a business transaction and that of keeping a family together, the Hebrew sense of the word Ga’al Strongs H1350 is that of buying back, while in the New Testament the Greek Agorazo Strongs G59 is purchase.

But the work of Jesus on the stake/cross/tree was also to set us free from the curse of the law and for more so the Gentiles to receive the Holy Spirit, that would break the animosity with the Jews, sadly this remains an allusive condition that is yet to be resolved?

Galatians 3:13-14, 4:5-6, Deuteronomy 21:33, Luke 23:39.

The old story and new Tech!

EASTER is not Cancelled?

Most Churches now have an internet connection of some kind from those lovely downloads to worship and so on, perhaps not all are that great after all and we need still in leadership and preaching to do our own things?

We will use the net to speak to loved one and friends so why not a link up from home to home to share in this live event?

The Easter story is a key even to our own personal salvation, many believers are now quarantined with family and many great opportunities have arisen to link service, talk, bible study and preaching altogether with worship!

We hope that this Easter will see loved ones and friends saved in light of this unknown plague and the sudden silence on a vaccine or cure being found with much prayer for the old and infirm that is required?

Matthew 18:20, John 3:3, 15-17, Acts 20:7, 11, Romans 3:21-31, 1 Corinthians 5:4, 10:16.

DAY TWO!

The EASTER Story.

Much has been written about the events of Easter, the death of Jesus on the cross/stake/tree are the essentials of the power of our redemption and forgiveness of failures to the promise of the New Life or being Born-Again!

We also know of the much in connection to the resurrection of Jesus from the grave and again the fulness of the promise of Eternal Salvation, but the hours between these two tremendous events are hardly ever covered in detail?

We get but a glimpse of the burial of Jesus, the torn curtain in the Temple in Jerusalem and the lies that were put in place to dishonour these events! When Easter is over Pentecost is the next episode of the Christian Church, missing out the Ascension of Jesus!

Matthew 27:33-66, Mark 15:47- 16:1, Luke 23:55-56.

May Celebrations?

Fertility Rights!

The traditional May day celebrations around the May pole that many of us once enjoyed as children in Britain seems to have been lost today in hub-bub of religious identity?

This was a pagan festival brought into the Christian tradition marking the fertility rights of the spring season and new life! Even the Roman occupation adapted the festival and added colours to it!

We tend to forget very quickly as the seasons pass in the year the significance of Christmas and Easter, the Ascension and Pentecost as nothing more than another Christian holiday and yet Easter is the most prolific?

Since it deals with the New Life of the individual from the slave master of Satan to the servant of God!

John 5:29, 11:25, Romans 8:11, 1 Peter 3;11.