At the heart of the Christian’s faith there stands a risen Savior. Against the black backdrop of a traitorous, premeditated murder, there shines victorious Light; the Lamb of God who has come to take away the sins of the world. After accomplishing all He had set out to do, leaving no law unkept and no prophesy unfulfilled, our Lord Jesus having surrendered himself to the Jews, and now hanging as a curse-bearer from the cross, cries out that all is finished (John 19:30). All that the Law and the Prophets had spoken about God’s Suffering Servant has come to pass, has been accomplished. And now, in His resurrection, in his walking out of death and into life, our Lord Jesus has declared Himself to be the Son of God with power (Romans 1:4).
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead absolves Him of any guilt, authenticates all His claims, and secures for us all the promises of God. Our debt paid in full and salvation purchased for all of God’s people. The holy wrath of God against us, now exhausted on Jesus. The merit of all of His righteousness imputed to us who believe. Full reconciliation between the Author of Life and those dead in sin. An eternity of ever increasing joy in the immediate presence of God Himself. All of this, and ten thousand others beside, are a direct result of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Our hope is built on nothing less than Christ’s death-defeating rising from the grave.
Father, a better hope I could not ask for then all that is guaranteed in the resurrection of Jesus.
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