Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Scratching the Surface
of
Easter
Days
Every Sunday is Easter Day!
People who really know and love Jesus have
always considered every Sunday to be “a little Easter Day” compelling people
who really know and love Jesus to honor Him through worship, work, and witness.
People who really know and love Jesus are
more eager to worship Him, work for Him, and witness to Him as a privileged
expression of gratitude for His favor here and hereafter than as some kinda
religious duty that makes fidelity look like a bad case of hemorrhoids.
Clue.
People who really know and love Jesus smile a
lot!
People who don’t, don’t!
Jesus is written all over the faces of people
who really get it/Him!
Jesus is seen in people who really know and
love Him because they serve Him by serving like Him a lot!
People who don’t, don’t!
It all started over two thousand years ago on
that first Easter Day.
People weren’t excited about religious stuff
like the funny church clothes that too many clergy wear in defiance of Matthew
23 or any of those distracting idolatries and vanities that obsess pulpiteers
and pewsitters that are rarely more than coincidental to following Him by His
example as attested in Holy Scripture.
People didn’t run around on that first Easter
Day celebrating fabrics, furniture, architecture, liturgies, litanies, rubrics,
rituals, ceremonies, polity, sects, denominations, or anything else religious
that are rarely more than coincidental to following Him by His example as
attested in Holy Scripture.
Nope.
They ran through the streets of Jerusalem and
then throughout the world with the best news ever: “He is risen!”
Those first witnesses knew His resurrection
meant resurrection for anyone who trusts Him as Lord and Savior along with the
wherewithal to live triumphantly in the meantime of worldly meanness,
madness, and misery.
His resurrection elevated the hope that
emboldened the faith to love Him by loving like Him in the certainty of
“paradise” with Him in heaven after the last breath.
Yes!
Praise Him for the irrepressible smiles and
service since that first Easter Day!
We know Jesus rose from the dead because:
1.
The Church has consistently focused on
and referred to the resurrection of
Jesus as the
keystone of its praise and practice since A.D. 32;
2.
The worship calendar shifted for
Christians from the Jewish Sabbath (7th
day of the week) to
Sunday (1st day of the week) because Jesus rose from the dead on
Sunday (see Mark 16);
3.
The New Testament consists of 27
testimonies to our Lord’s resurrection;
4.
The disciples were transformed from
cowards into bravehearted Gospelers
willing to face the
tests of torture and martyrdom because of Jesus’ resurrection; and
5.
Jesus is alive in/through all who
believe in Him; or as the old song goes,
“You ask me how I
know He lives? He lives within my
heart!’
Because Jesus
rose from the dead, people who really know and love Him worship regularly, work
for Him according to the gifts/resources entrusted to them by Him, and witness
to His invitational, welcoming, including, and eternally unconditional love.
Yes!
Every day is Easter Day!
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Blessings and Love!
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Salt! Shine! Leavenate!
Look up! Stand up! Speak up! Act up for Jesus!
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2 comments:
Thanks for the good word brother!
He has Risen. Come and here more about. Who has Risen On Sunday Ay 7:15 & 9:45
You will be Blessed. By Pastor Kopp
221 N Main Belvidere IL
Walton
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