1 Peter 1:3 Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Amplified Bible (AMP)
The other day in Acts 2:23 Peter spoke of "this Jesus" whom the Pharisees and Roman officials had crucified. Peter spoke of the resurrection then and starts off his epistle speaking of what we have as Christians because of this resurrection, an "ever living" hope. This resurrected Jesus is whom we celebrate today.
I read the following quote this morning in a devotional, "The resurrection of our Lord is the single greatest event in history. Had the Lord merely died, he would have been considered a great teacher and moral leader, but would not have proven Himself God. By coming out of the grave, He triumphed over death and hell, showed His sacrifice on the cross as being acceptable to God, and gave eternal hope of eternal life to everyone who puts their trust in Him."
We have this ever living hope because He is risen, He took on the weight of our sin and paid the price so that we too may one day rise again to live with Him. We sang the Matt Maher song "Christ is Risen" in church this morning. May the words resound in our hearts today as we feel honored and blessed that Jesus Christ died for us and then rose again in triumph, may we live this day and every day in what the NLT describes as "great expectation" for that day.
Beneath the weight of all our sin,
You bow to none but heavens will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer's crown
No burden great can hold you down
In strength you reign
Forever let your church proclaim
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death,
Come awake, come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
In Christ,
Mike
Mike
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Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace NIV
Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace NIV
1 Peter 1:2-4
New Living Translation (NLT)
2 God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
May God give you more and more grace and peace.
The Hope of Eternal Life
3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
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