Celebration Sunday

 

 

Somewhere in time, approximately two thousand years ago, on a Sunday Morning, the stone was rolled away.  The Friday before, the Roman government had killed what they thought was a man. They had nailed him to a cross and watched him die.  To verify he was dead, a soldier stuck a spear into his side and out of it blood and water flowed as a sure sign of death.  The body was taken, wrapped as you would a mummy and placed in a tomb.  A huge rock was rolled in front and armed guards stood around it. 

At this point, if you were a follower of this man, you had moved beyond discouragement into despair, but what they didn’t know was that Sunday was coming. 

We need to realize the wages of sin is death.  Sin is only punishable by death.  There can be no justice if all sinners don’t recieve the same penalty.  God knows this, so he sent his only son Jesus, to die in our place.  When we get to heaven and are judged, God will pass sentence and it will be death -  but Jesus will have paid our penalty.  Jesus already took our punishment for us.  All we have to do now it accept the free gift he gave his life to give.

To prove that God rules death as well as life, death was not the end.  On Sunday morning when woman came to the tomb, the stone was rolled away and the tomb was empty.  Imagine the amount of joy they felt when they found out their Savior was alive.

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

This is truly a Sunday of celebration.  We were dead, but yet we live.  We were guilty, but yet forgiven.  We deserved judgment, but yet we received mercy. 

Because of the sacrifice of the Cross, we have redemption in Christ Jesus.  I can think of no greater reason to celebrate.

Allison Durham Speer - I Will Glory in the Cross from bill-and-gloria-gaither on GodTube.