Resurrection Sunday

What does the resurrection mean to God? What does the resurrection mean to Christ? What does the resurrection mean to us as believers? What does the resurrection mean to the power of evil? What does the resurrection mean to all of creation?

The enemy is not omniscient, nor is he omnipotent, nor is he omnipresent. He has a third of an innumerable host of fallen angels in his service and has gained thousands of years of experience in his evil hatred of God and those that have been made God's. YET he understands NOTHING about the power of love.

Everything he did against Job was because he hated God and how God was blessing him, even when Job was living in ignorant unrighteousness and justifying himself and not God (Job 32:1-2). But, God allowed satan to do only to Job what would bring him to the place where God could bless him, and so all the enemy did, ignorant of God's love, was fulfill what God had in store for Job. Satan did all he could to get Christ put to death, but he only fulfilled the wonderful purpose of God for our salvation.

All man ever did, throughout his true history in the Bible, was fail in the midst of God blessing him. Finally, God had a Man that would and did glorify Him (Jhn. 13:31-32; 17:4). The resurrection is proof that a Man has glorified God. What is the immensity in this fact, a Man has glorified God, and the glory claimed that Man (1 Tim. 2:5).

What did the resurrection mean to Christ? It was and is the way that was opened for God to express His heart to His full satisfaction. And to express it to multitudes of men that could only fail, but the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit would be fully satisfied with us in and with them in this love that God is (1 Jhn . 4:8,16; Jhn. 12:24; Is. 53:10-11).

What does the resurrection mean to us? It is the proof that the old man is crucified (Rom. 6:6), and all of our sins are paid for, and done away with forever, in the complete satisfaction and glory of God our Father through Christ Jesus our Lord (1 Jhn. 2:1-2; Ex. 25:17-22; Jhn. 19:30).

We now have Christ in us, the guarantee of a glorious future, experiencing a love that we will never come to the end of (Eph. 3:19-21). Something, remember, that the enemy understands NOTHING about!

And finally, all of creation will glory in Christ alone, it's Creator (Jhn. 1:3; Gen. 1:1; Col. 1:16; 2 Pet. 3:13).

When Christ rose from the dead and ascended, he took us with Him, a whole multitude of captives captured in His love, Ephesians 4:8!