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My brethren, the LORD Jesus Christ has risen from the dead.. Why are we so worried about the future? Why has so much of American Christianity influenced us in thinking that we need to be so consumed with what may happen at any day? A terrorist attack? A nuclear bomb, the rapture, world war III, the great tribulation, the European Union starting to require everyone to have a 666 membership tracking device so that the Government will never allow you to dip below the poverty line? A terrorist attack will surely come, wars and rumors of wars will always be around to a greater or lesser extent for some time to come, but we must know by faith and reality based on the Word of God, that God is the controller of history, and that He has triumphed over the principalities and powers. But just as the disciples couldn’t get it until Jesus was slaughtered and then risen, so we have a real hard time getting it, that the way of triumph and victory still is death and resurrection. Most in our country in this day, will not be martyred, but we must all die to ourselves daily and follow Him. This is how Jesus will bring in His kingdom. And we need to recover the significance of Jesus’ triumph over death and vindicating all God’s promises. What the Jews thought God would do for Israel at the end of history God has done in Jesus in the middle of history for all the world. The early church, so fresh from the living memory and reality of the Son of God, Emmanuel, was unstoppable. Even as Christians were being crucified, then burnt alive to light up Nero’s games, the church spread all over Asia minor and beyond. Brethren, we need to recover the triumphant joy and realization of OT hope; what was hope, and longing for millions of Jews and Gentiles for centuries upon centuries, has now become joyful reality We need to recapture this by first being faithful to obey Him and love Him right where we are, and His gospel will change the world.
1. The rest of our lives and development in grace will only be ((if we continue to mature that is)) a deeper and deeper understanding of the significance of what has already happened--The triumph of the Lord Jesus over the Law which condemned us in our sin, and most of all a deeper love and awareness of the depth of grace.
2. We need to pray as Paul did for the reality of the love of God and the triumph of God’s grace Eph. 1:17 “…That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ , when he raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. ( So think about that, the church is the fullness of Him!)
The greatest need of the church today and in our individual lives wherever and whatever we may be struggling, is a greater knowledge of the Lord Jesus. Peter also echoes this in II Pet. 1:3 “…seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us….”
Power is associated with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the Spirit given to the church, it is this power from God because of the resurrection, by the Spirit, that enables us to obey Jesus and conquer sin in our lives. Do we believe it? Do we appropriate it by faith?
Psalm 49:15 says, “But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me.