Reading: Acts 7
Looking at the implications of the resurrection from my message on Easter Sunday. (4 of 4)
Jesus is a “life-giving spirit.” He gives life. Real life is founded in a live-giving relationship with God. The God who rose from the dead 2,000 years ago. It’s not a fading religious memory. Jesus is alive and he wants to know you. He wants to heal your pain. He wants to cleanse your sin. He wants you to know what a relationship with him is like.
He’s come to save you from a rules motivated, religious life that leads to death. Or life led by giving fleshly cravings or addictions that rule your body. You don’t need to hope that you will get you into heaven. You can know NOW.
Jesus has freely given of himself to us through the Spirit so we could know NOW that he is alive and is waiting to welcome us in his home in heaven for all eternity. Jesus has died for our sins that they might be washed away forever. This is the good news that should be ringing from the churches all across the globe this morning.
It is the joyous words of the old song, “He lives, He lives salvation to impart! You ask me how I know he lives – he lives within my heart.”
And the church bears witness to this reality. The Spirit of Jesus has come into our lives. He permeates our gatherings. Jesus is alive and he’s poured out his life-giving Spirit on this group of humbled people who used to be separated by their sin, but not know HE really is alive. They’ve experienced his forgiveness. They know he’s alive.
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Nice post....thanks!
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