He is Risen Easter Sunday | 21 April 2019
Easter songs Christ The Lord Is Risen Today Crown Him With Many Crowns O Praise The Name How Great Is Our God He Is Risen
“Time” ~Pink Floyd and you run and you run to catch up with the Sun but it’s sinking racing around to come up behind you again the Sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older shorter of breath and one day closer to death every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way the time is gone the song is over thought I’d something more to say
bad news
Sometimes it feels to me like I’m in a train
Hit a brick wall
sand just pouring through your hands
Time is like that it goes faster and faster
we’re in the process of dying
We die every day
There are so many possibilities
Close the casket
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it But I probably will Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture A little of the glory of, well time slips away And leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of Glory days They live in what Bruce Springsteen called “glory days”
Life is always in the now
bad news
good news
Hebrews 2:14-15 Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death.
death & the process of decay was not part of God’s original beautiful plan Jesus came to break the power of him who holds the power of death
1 John 3:8 The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work
death & the process of decay was not part of God’s original beautiful plan Jesus came to break the power of him who holds the power of death if we internalize the meaning of the resurrection we can be completely free from all of that fear
resurrection Jesus’s resurrection is the sign and the proof that the devil was defeated on Calvary
Ephesians 1:7-10 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
in Christ you are free The bottom line is that the resurrection means we can be free from fear
Pink Floyd I think brilliantly captured one way of looking at the dying process
resurrection The resurrection empowers us to completely reframe the meaning of death
A baby in the womb
Romans 8:22-23 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
He is Risen Easter Sunday | 21 April 2019