The greatest event of all time was the Resurrection
The Easter season has sparked a fresh revelation of how amazing the Resurrection is.
No one could script a narrative so compelling: the most significant figure in the history of the world is gruesomely killed and then raised back to life three days later.
It still dominates world history.
Here are my recent thoughts:
Christ knew His death and resurrection were coming…
On several occasions, He told His disciples that He would be mocked, spit upon, scourged, and crucified…then raised to life after three days.
He told it all to them in detail before it every happened.
Wow.
Christ endured the most awful death ever imagined by man…
As He predicted, he was crucified. Crucifixion involved being nailed to a tree. It was preceded by a merciless scourging with sharp pieces of bone and metal that ripped the victim to pieces.
Christ suffered massive (or almost total) blood loss. He bled from His back, hands, feet, head, and a spear to the heart, which released a stream of blood and water.
He was pummelled to death. The spitting and slapping of 600 soldiers made him look like nothing but black and blue.
Christ was dead, violently, totally dead in the grave.
His Jewish friends in the Sanhedrin took down His body and carefully wrapped it in 75 pounds of cloth. This was no “swoon.” He was positively, brutally, dead.
They placed his dead body inside a borrowed tomb. Dead. Swollen, massive trauma, totally stone-cold dead. For three long days and nights.
The Holy Spirit exploded Christ’s body with resurrection power on the third day.
Ephesians 1:19 is a single verse about the resurrection. It contains all four major Greek words for “power” to describe Christ’s moment of resurrection!
BOOM!
Explosive, mighty, jolting energy hit that cold corpse. It was Jesus’ spirit man returning to His body after defeating Satan and his minions in a shameless parade of spiritual victory.
HE CAME WALKING OUT.
He was in a glorified body, an eternal, immortal body. He could be touched, spoken to, eat, and cook food. No door could stop Him, even the massive gravestone.
We are talking about “victory.”
Christ rose from the dead. He ascended into heaven in full sight of His disciples forty days later.
That’s EASTER. “That’s my King.”
Let Him live large in you. There’s never been and will never be an even slight resemblance to…
“The Resurrection.”