45.Q. How does Christ's resurrection benefit us?
A. First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, so that He might make us share in the righteousness He won for us by His death. Second, by His power we too are already now resurrected to a new life. Third, Christ's resurrection is a guarantee of our glorious resurrection.
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Mark 10: 33-34
"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and to the scribes and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him to the Gentiles' and they will mock Him and scourge Him and spit on Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again."
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Easter is not about Jesus living on in His teachings or the experience of Jesus coming to life in His disciples. Easter is about a divine Galilean whose heart pumped blood again, whose lungs filled with oxygen again, and whose synapses started firing again.
The resurrection means that the death of Jesus was enough--enough to atone for sin, enough to reconcile us to God, enough to present us holy in God presence. Christ wo' sin,death and teh Devil lost--that's the good news of the empty tomb.
Kevin DeYoung--The Good News We Almost Forgot
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Pray that the font-line workers will be encouraged, -knowing that others are praying for them
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