He is risen indeed!
“Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
“But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead. … For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.”
“Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he gave us new life by raising Jesus Christ from death. This fills us with a living hope.”
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
(1 Corinthians 15:12-22; 1 Peter 1:3; John 3:16-17; Romans 10:9-10)
Have a blessed Easter.
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Amen and amen! Happy Resurrection Day!
Amen! He is alive!
Amen. Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed!! Happy Easter!
‘Qam’ He is risen in Aramaic the mother tongue of Jesus Christ.
https://www.aramaic.rocks/2012/06/he-is-risen-aramaic-cartoon-with.html
This is beautiful, Steve. Thank you.
Also very personal to me, because in the midst of a life in which my body is failing, with too much pain in too many places, too much nausea, too many daily hills to climb…there’s meaning.
And it isn’t Heaven, though that’s certainly wrapped up in the whole. As those who know me best pray for my release – for my death – I come to realize that God chose to experience this life, this death, precisely because it’s important, and to show that it could be transcended and transfigured.
The wine-grapes glow in the warm sun; the wheat nods its head in the summer breeze. But only on the other side of the crushing of the wine-press and the scourging of the winnowing floor do they find their true purpose. Only in their agony can they become the Blood and the Body.
So every word I can write is worth all the care I can give. Every glance into the predawn sky deserves not just my eyes, but my full heart.
And every hug I give, real or virtual, to a person or (more often for me!) to a dog absolutely has to carry this message:
I love you.
It’s the message we pay forward from the foot of the Cross.
Andrew, the most powerful words I have encountered today! God’s richest blessings to you, brother! Strength, peace and joy!
And amen, Steve! Amen!
John, thanks so much!
He is Risen, and we with Him.
Andrew, my beloved younger brother, I’m sending you as many virtual hugs as this missive can contain. You are a never-ending source of inspiration and hope, a witness that in Christ all things are possible. Your courage and wit and faith shine like a full moon reflecting the Son. Blessings, grace, and peace.
Andrew, the stark truth and intense beauty of your words move me. Sending much love and prayers for continued deepening of His peace and hope, my dear brother in Christ.
Steve, Amen! Praising Him for His merciful, eternal redemption of us, today and always.
Praying for you!
Romans 8:35-39 King James Version (KJV)
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Amen !!
The message of the cross never grows old. Thanks for sharing. Faith alone in Christ alone.
Christ is risen, He is risen indeed! Easter blessings, Steve and everyone!
He is risen, indeed!
He is risen indeed! What a faithful Savior!! I have so loved your 3-day Easter posts and the beautiful messages.
I am so thankful that He got up! He is risen indeed!
He is risen indeed! And that makes all the difference…
Happy Resurrection Day Steve Laube Agency. Hie is Risen Indeed!
He is Risen and to think we will meet him one day, face to face.
What a Day that will be!
Hallelujah!!
HE IS RISEN, INDEED!
So good to hear the good news! Happy Easter to you and yours!
He is Risen indeed! Amen!
Amen ! Glory to God! Happy resurrection Sunday to everyone.
And therein lies the point. Praise the Lord.
Glory to God! Happy Resurrection Day!
This calls for shouting and telling!
A wonderful, powerful, and highly timed message for the world to heed. Thank you, Steve!
Amen. A beautiful post.
And because He is Risen I know that my husband’s years of suffering and recent death were not in vain and that, even now, he is in the presence of Christ Jesus. Imagine! Easter Sunday with our Lord? Still, I long for his hand in mine, his head on the pillow beside me. Our children long for their earthly father. No one got to say goodbye. The nights are long and the tears are hot on my face even as I whisper “it is well..it is well with my soul.” 30 years in his company was not enough…but his hardship is over. And eternity? That will do. That will do nicely.
Thank you, Steve. You have a blessed Easter as well.
Hallelujah. Praise God.
Did He rub His pierce-ed hands
together in a Holy Glee,
dropping wrappings to tomb’s sands
as He savoured victory?
Did He plan what He would do
now, to make this vital point?
“I’ve been dead and I’ve come through,
now you see Me, now you don’t!”
And the sunlight filled the space
which had held so much of dread;
the air held sweet perfume of grace
for the days that lay ahead.
I’ll bet His mood did match the light;
high-flying Holy Spirit kite!
Amen!! And how blessed we are to have such a Lord!
Steve, thank you for your recent posts. It is encouraging to know an agent who is bold, stands up for His faith, and has been given knowledge that many can’t comprehend–the simple saving truth of the Gospel. Our Lord is not to blame for the sins of mankind. He knew rejection and rebuff, but was still obedient to the cross. Happy Resurrection Day to you and your family.
Yes our LORD is risen and therefore He will consenquently be there to raise me to a life of Glory in order to be with the Father forever! Hallelujah!!!
Amen!
Amen! Have a blessed Resurrection Sunday! Thank you for sharing.
Mary, Mary, it’s contrary,
nature thrown unto a loop,
for the Man they tried to bury
has done gone and flown the coop!
Hey, there, Pete, come have a seat,
and peer into the empty tomb;
death, it seems, has now been beat,
and world’s about to go KABOOM!
Look there, pardner, there’s the gardener,
let’s go ask him, he might know…
well, we might have looked bit harder,
for he’s an angel all aglow,
and he’s saying, “Come and see,
then meet the Lord in Galilee.”
Thank you Andrew for your resurrection creative posts.
You have blessed me with your writing in the short time I have been blogging here.
I just learned from you today of your health/pain journey.
You are in my prayers in Idaho.
He is risen!!! Amen!
HE IS RISEN INDEED!
Praising His Name for all Jesus did in obedience so that we may have eternal life!
Thank you for this post, Steve.
I took the liberty of interleaving a couple of the Gospel accounts here, and the ending harks to Luke 24:31. I hope that’s okay, and that a spirit of fun (for how can conquering death NOT be fun?) comes through.
Uh, oh, look, there’s something wrong,
that great stone was rolled away,
and the Roman guards have gone,
most unlikely, far astray.
There’s a gardener, he may know
what strange thing has happened here,
“Pray tell, sir, where did He go,
this dead Man we held so dear?”
Said the stranger with a smile
and a wry shake of the head,
“There’s much afoot today here while
you seek the Living ‘midst the dead,
but we’ll meet up in Galilee,”
and then vanished – it was He!
I sometimes stare at images of the little Earth taken from spacecraft far out in space, and I am in awe that God so loved the world…
Resurrection Day -celebrating the most event in history!
These are such powerful passages! Happy Easter…he has risen!
Dear Steve,
Thanks for the rising words. The Who, What, Why, and How of
salvation that will allow us the eternal Where.
From Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday, for me, is the holiest/most sacred week in human history-at least for this believer.
Knowing Scripture, Jesus fully knew all that would happen to him.
Think of it, the only lambs from which the sacrificial lamb that the high priest would select, were born and raised in Bethlehem (Sheep were not permitted to graze in Bethlehem except for the ones from which the sacrificial lamb would be chosen).
Jesus was born in Bethlehem. They were swaddled in a manger as was He. They descended the Mount of Olive at the same time that Jesus made his last descent to be evaluated by the chief priest and elders.
Caiaphas, the acting high priest, declared, “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” Jn 11:49b-50
So much symbolism and such perfect timing. Only God!