Easter celebration is the most important celebration on the Christian calendar ostensibly because the purpose of Jesus coming was to die for the sins of mankind, so if he had changed his mind at the last minute, the mission could have been aborted. So we thank God that Jesus was born but even appreciate Jesus more that he endured the horrors of the cross and paid the full price for our sins.
(Mat 27:45) Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
(Mat 27:46) And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
(Mat 27:47) Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man called for Elias.
(Mat 27:48) And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
(Mat 27:49) The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.
(Mat 27:50) Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
Satan was fooled into thinking that killing Jesus will ensure that mankind will forever remain in his bondage but his action brought the opposite result; the keys of death and hell with which Satan tormented mankind was seized from him.
When Jesus died, the curtains in the temple was torn in two signifying that we all can have access to God, so we are not only delivered from death and hell, we also have free unfettered access to God; hallelujah! Freedom for all those who believe in the name of Jesus!
(1Co 2:7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
(1Co 2:8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
(Mat 27:50) Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
(Mat 27:51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
(Mat 27:52) And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
(Mat 27:53) And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
The suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus have serious implications for all mankind but many ignore this great gift of God to us and still submit themselves to the will of Satan;
(Isa 53:2) For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath neither form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
(Isa 53:3) He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(Isa 53:4) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
(Isa 53:5) But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
(Isa 53:6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
(Isa 53:7) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
(Isa 53:8) He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
(Isa 53:9) And he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
(Isa 53:10) Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
(Isa 53:11) He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
So we are justified by the death and resurrection of Jesus, saved from death and hell, saved from sin, redeemed by his blood and by his stripes we are healed from every sickness and disease known or yet to be revealed by that same power that raised Jesus from the dead.
(Rev 1:18) I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
(Rom 14:8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
(Rom 14:9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
(Gal 3:13) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hanged on a tree:
(Gal 3:14) That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
So we celebrate Easter to bring to mind the great sacrifice that was made for us and the freedom and liberty over every situation and circumstances as a result.
(Rom 8:11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(Rom 8:12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(Rom 8:13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(Rom 8:14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
So as we celebrate Easter, let us become spiritually minded so as to benefit from the victory of Christ death and resurrection.
Happy Easter.
