“HE IS RISEN!” – Mar. 31
March 31, 2013“But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.” Matthew 28:5-6
HE IS RISEN!
This angelic pronouncement is the most astounding declaration that has ever been made on earth. We can spend a thousand years studying the Gospel of Jesus Christ and never fully comprehend the full ramifications of what those words mean. The far reaching extent to which, HE IS RISEN, changed our world and transformed man and the whole creation.
We are so comfortable in our bondage to sin that we merely pick at the threshold of the freedom in Christ that has been opened to us. The decay wrought by the fall of man and the slavery to fear is all that we have ever known. Our bondage to decay is so familiar to us that we consider it a physical law of our existence. We call it the 2nd law of thermodynamics. This so-called law, also called entropy, states that “in all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the
potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state.” This means that things decay. All of creation is in bondage to entropy. All we have ever known is that entropy will eventually win.
That world changed with HE IS RISEN!
HE IS RISEN! – freed us from entropy and decay.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us from the law of sin and death.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us into Christ Jesus.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us to live in the Spirit.
HE IS RISEN! – freed the righteous requirement of the law to be fulfilled in us.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us to please God.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us to put to death the deeds of the body through the Spirit.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us to belong to God.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us to be adopted as children of God – heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.
HE IS RISEN! – freed us to eternal life and peace.
HE IS RISEN! – fundamentally changed the world. The world was transformed at its basic levels when Christ came out of that tomb. Nothing has been the same since Christ completed the work of redemption. All that remains is the full manifestation of HE IS RISEN!
That is what we are eagerly awaiting. The adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies; all possible because of HE IS RISEN.
PRAYER: Lord, thank you for rising from the grave and defeating death once and for all. Thank you for finishing the Father’s redemptive plan. Thank you for saving me while I was still a sinner. Thank you for changing every aspect of my world. Thank you for freeing me from my slavery to sin and death. Praise God for You have RISEN! Amen
A DEVOTED LIFE 
Simple, but good stuff. A thousand years wouldn’t be enough to fully grasp even a small amount of what Scripture says. No other “letter” in history compares to the beautiful liturgy that is, the Bible.
I think it is fun that you used a word associated with math and measurement to discuss something as measureless as the impact of the Risen Christ on our lives. Great post!
Happy Easter to you!
Praise the Lord!
Awesome. I like the way you linked Christ’s victory to a paradigm shift in the way we approach life and death.