Of First Importance: The Biblical Significance of the Resurrection

This morning we gather together, as the people of the risen King who delight to bring Him praise, and we celebrate the triumphant victory of King Jesus, who died for our sins according to the Scriptures, who was buried in a borrowed tomb, and who three days later rose from the grave, triumphant and victorious over sin and death!

We are those whose hearts have mourned the horrors of Good Friday—that the perfect, righteous, innocent Son of God was betrayed by friends, disowned by all who knew Him, unjustly condemned as guilty by those who were themselves worthy of condemnation, brutally whipped and beaten, shamefully stripped naked, nailed to a cross—and worst of all, because He was bearing in His body the sin of His people, the innocent, obedient Son of God experienced the unmixed fury and righteous wrath of His dear Father. We have mourned over our own guilt—that our sin was the reason for that horrific scene! Our sin against God was so despicable and so contemptible that the only way for us to be reconciled to Him was for the Son of God to go through that... http://www.thegracelifepulpit.com