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Easter Sunday
Have you ever seen the difference between a Christian funeral and a funeral for a nonChristian?
You can usually spot them right out of the box.
The Christian funeral is filled with hope.
It’s not that there is denial about the person who’s dead.
We are well aware of the person who’s dead.
If he’s a Christian who died, the odds are that there has been a church who has surrounded him in the days, weeks and months leading to that final breath.
Collectively, the church has watched the person who died struggle with breathing, seen the pain, and grimaced as they watched him cough what’s in his lungs.
They are well aware of death being there.
So it’s not an avoidance of death.
The hope is there because the Christian knows that when a believer dies, he is taken to be with the Lord.
This hope isn’t well-wishing, or empty headed positive thinking.
It’s based off of something.
True, the Bible talks about there being a resurrection.
Throughout the Old Testament, there was the hope of a resurrection.
Adam looked forward to it.
Abraham looked forward to it.
David looked forward to it.
Daniel looked forward to it.
But there’s proof for this hope as well.
That proof is found in the resurrection of Jesus.
On Friday we remembered the crucifixion of Jesus.
We remembered His hanging on the cross and His brutal death.
We remembered His body being buried in a borrowed tomb.
But then on Sunday, on Easter Sunday, and every other Sunday, we celebrate His victory from the grave.
The victory from the grave not only says that it is possible for their to be a resurrection, but Jesus’ victory from the grave, demolishes the power of the grave over those who belong to Him.
It’s this event, it’s this resurrection, that all of Christianity is about.
Christianity is like many other religions.
It has a holy book.
It has a God.
It has it’s rules.
It has it’s theology.
But what really sets it apart is … it’s real.
You remove the resurrection and none of that is worth anything.
You remove the resurrection of Jesus Christ and:
He was a fraud.
His teaching was from a crazy man.
And whatever noteworthy things we find in the Bible, would find themselves to be unreliable, because the one who spoke them would not be the God He claimed to be.
And even worse if you remove the resurrection of Jesus … then He wouldn’t be the God-Man who died on the Cross to pay for sin … He’d be the man who simply died.
And if all Jesus did was die … then your sins are paid for.
And when you die, all you can expect to face is Hell for your sins.
And if you still have to face your sins … then death is a scary thing.
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I recently had a conversation with someone about a Christian that I know who is dying.
I was talking about the certainty that this person is going to die.
We don’t know when.
But we know it will happen.
The person I was talking to said, “Wow!
That’s scary.
Death is scary.”
That statement right there is why we need Easter, it’s why we need the resurrection of Jesus.
Why do we need it?
Because death is scary.
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