"I AM the Resurrection"
The resurrection of Jesus is the central event in all
of history. Nothing can compare with it, it is an event as no other. It speaks
to us regarding the faithfulness of our God and his eternal love and desire for
each and all of us.
The resurrection is the moment when our Creator , who
in the person of Jesus, entered into the depths of the most helpless of conditions,
that of death itself , and came forth again.
Death, the grave, the very absents of life, that place
which is far beyond hope, when all is lost, it is from such a place that our
Lord Jesus Christ descended and from which he came forth to great glory.
Our Lord Jesus entered that place where all humanity would
have been destined to find itself. Yet , our God in his divine providence, did not create us for death, but for life, and
not just life which arises but for a moment then passes away, no our loving God
created us to have life eternally within
deep communion with himself.
Jesus came and walked the Earth, he accepted the lowly place
as a Son of Man to show us that he is
the Son of God , that he wants us to
know him and Jesus as the very self of God, revealed himself to us through
Jesus.
Jesus gave us the most perfect clearest revelation of
the great God which could possibly be conveyed to us. Jesus did not just tells
us about God he showed us about God. In Jesus we see the glorious love of the
Father and the divine working of the Holy Spirit all through the Son. In Jesus
all of the Holy Trinity is brought into perfect view.
Jesus moved among the people seeing their suffering and
life’s struggles. Jesus witness the full spectrum of the human condition, whatever
we might face in this life Jesus either witnessed or he himself experienced.
Jesus saw the helplessness and the seemingly futile condition
of humanity and spoke to them of a sure hope that their God had not abandoned
them. He healed them, comforted them and encouraged them about the future that ultimately
good would prevail, not through human efforts and plans of humanity, but
through the divine intervention of God himself. Even as Jesus spoke of these
things, he embodied them, Jesus was and is the true and only hope of humanity.
This very one who came as the perfect expression of the
love of God, the one who did no harm to any however was not exempt for the
injustice and violence of the world driven by a lust for power and prominence over
the lives of others. Jesus was wrongfully and illegally arrested under Jewish
law and tried under false accusations and false pretenses by the very ones who
were charged to prevent just such a thing from ever taking place.
Jesus, though he faced great pressures from all
directions, spiritual, instructional and political Jesus kept his peace and was for the most
part silent knowing that even now in the midst of all the wrong being perpetrated
against him that his Father’s will was unfolding .
Jesus was standing in all of our places. He was suffering
for us and with us identifying himself with us, so that we might find our identifying
with him.
Though Jesus being fully God, he yet subjected himself
to the will of the Father no matter the outcome of the unfolding events. Jesus
knew that his Father was faithful and would not allow him to be lost to the grip
of death and through his resurrection we can know that God will be faithful to
us.
Jesus was not just scarifying himself there, that day,
but rather Jesus’s whole life was based upon sacrifice to the will of God. Jesus
sacrificed himself his whole life, his whole life. All his life, all his life. In
many ways the cross was the logical conclusion to a life entirely scarified to
the perfect will of God. This means that Jesus sacrificed his “self”.
Jesus accepted the place, of the lowest status and was condemned
to die. He took on the weight of the cross, a weight which would have been
justly placed upon our own shoulders, but Jesus willingly took it on for each
and all of us so that we might not have to.
The Good Shepherd Jesus laid down his life for the
flock of humanity .He did so to show us the love of God, to show us how far our
God would go just have us with him even unto death. God was saying to us all
that he loves us more than he loves himself.
The cross of
Jesus there upon Calvary, was not in truth directed toward God as a legal appeasement
of some law, but rather is directed to all humanity as a demonstration of God’s
divine love, grace, forgiveness and so much more.
The cross of Jesus
is there that we might look upon it and know that God has removed any and all
things which would separate him and humanity, that none need not be excluded
for entering eternal life, which is a relationship with God and one another all
through Jesus. The cross takes away all
of our excuses from being left out. We may look at the cross and know that upon
it that manifested work of our salvation was finished.
Jesus as all humanity must went to the darkness of the
grave and closed in by the stone. From all human vantage points Jesus and
movement which he began was now over, that it would be forgotten and passes
into nothingness.
Out of this place of death and hopelessness however the
Spirit of God moved and the one great enemy of all humanity, that of death was
defeated in and by Jesus. He came forth in glory unequalled as no other has or
ever could. Jesus not only has the full glory of his divine nature restored,
even his humanity is risen to a place as glory as well.
No power seen or unseen could keep Jesus in the bounds
of death. Not even the military might of Rome could stop the resurrection, nor
the political scheming of the religious establishment, it could not, then nor
now, keep Jesus in the grave.
Jesus though death and resurrection has gone and come
again as no one else. The resurrection confirms the power of the cross, for
without the resurrection the cross would have no meaning.
The resurrection confirms Jesus’ divine identity as the
Son of God. Jesus is not the Son of God because he was resurrected, but rather
he is resurrection because he is the Son of God.
Our Lord Jesus speaks to each and all; “I am the Resurrection” .Jesus told this
to Martha the grieving sister of dead Lazarus to encourage her and all of us,
that his power to intervene is always available even when all hope is dead,
lost or gone , with Jesus it is never too late.
The “Resurrection”
therefore is not just an event, but is who Jesus is.
Jesus would speak to all of now, that he is “the Resurrection” for us, that is Jesus
can and will bring forth life from the dead, no matter how dead our hopes may
be. Even if we passes from this Earthly life we are assured that through Jesus our
grave of death will be empty even as his is as we will share in the life
eternal which awaits us.
Jesus give us these words of comfort, each time we consider the resurrection of our
Lord, that we might take hope and comfort that in Jesus there is hope and life.
Let each and all consider this truth as we celebrate
this Easter season. Jesus speaks to us all “I
am the Resurrection”.
Benediction:
May we each and all be ever mindful and encouraged that in our Lord Jesus our
God has given us an eternal hope all through his Holy Son, today, tomorrow and forevermore.
Amen.
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