What is Easter all about? Is it about the eggs and the chocolate bunnies and the family gatherings? All these things are a fun part of this yearly celebration, but they are not the point.
Easter is the celebration of the magnificent fact of the resurrection of Christ. He lived a perfectly sinless life and then He was crucified, separated from the Father in order to pay for our sins, His blood shed for our forgiveness.
His death was necessary, but the grave could not hold Him. It was defeated.
"Death is swallowed up in victory.
O Death, where is your sting?
O Hell, where is your victory?
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law,
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
-The Apostle Paul, I Corinthians 15
Christ came to fulfill the law of God and to provide forgiveness of sin, thereby freeing those who will believe from their bondage to sin. Where sin loses its grip, death loses its hold as well. Those who trust in Christ will also be raised to abide with God forever.
No more sin, no more death, no more sickness, no more pain. Forever able to enjoy the greatness of God without the limitations that are imposed on us by our mortality!
Praise God for His mercy is great, indeed!
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