BORN TO DIE!
Typically, the furthest most arrive in learning about the ultimate historical being on earth, Jesus the Christ, is in our youth Sunday School classes. We learn all those touchy feely stories about the beautiful baby Jesus, who was born divinely to Mother Mary, grew up in Nazareth north of the Sea of Galilee, learned carpentry from His earth father Joseph, somewhere around thirty gathered His twelve disciples and then began His ministry filled with teachings, miracles and lessons of how to treat others with the ultimate emotion we can express, which is LOVE, the least-expressed emotion in humanity.
God, the Creator of all, had a plan from the beginning. God knew eventually that there would have to be a flesh and blood human on earth to be a living and breathing example of how God desired humanity to treat each other. The genealogical line was established through the Hebrew nation by calling forth Abraham from ancient Iraq to travel to current day Israel to begin the family line. The Old Testament documents the history of the nation that evolved. That Ultimate Enemy, Satan, who gained power and control over planet earth after the disobedience of Adam and Eve, tried every trick in his malignant and devious line of work to keep Jesus from appearing on the stage of history to play His part for us. Satan tried to keep Jesus from being born. But, our all-powerful God brought Jesus forth to lay the groundwork for a world of peace and tranquility. It has become nothing but chaos!
Today is Resurrection Day 2024. I know most call it Easter, embellished with cute rabbits and colorful eggs and squealing children filling their baskets. But, the true and unfailing significance of this day is that the Son of God, who appeared in that insignificant village in Israel, and not in some palatial mansion or castle to some historical and famous king, lauded and applauded with feasts and holidays and trumpets announcing the birth, was born most innocently and unnoticed. But, His impact on us until the end of time will be the most significant of the ages. Three days before his miraculous emergence and coming to life from His burial tomb, after the well-witnessed beating, scourging, piercing and bleeding on that horrendous hill in Jerusalem, the stage was set for the ending of the life of "The King of the Jews." But, it was just the beginning.
Jesus, divinely and according to God's original plan, emerged alive and is still ALIVE. He went back to the Father and left us the Holy Spirit. What He did on the cross was to bleed and die for all of us. We have the opportunity to ensure our eternal existence after bodily death by believing He was, Who He said He was, sent to earth to show us the way to be forgiven of our sins, but there is a catch! We must believe that Jesus lived and we must be repentant and ask forgiveness of our sins to receive that forgiveness. Oh, yes, and we must forgive all others so that we may be forgiven. All the above seems insurmountable, but it changes lives and lays a path of life that has no better alternative. We are accustomed to follow the earthly Captains and the Kings, but following the real King Jesus heals our broken hearts, breaks the curses of our family lines and our own, and brings forth a greater joy than we ever had without Him! One must let Him take charge of the wheel of your life and keep you on the right road.
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