Posted: 22 April 2025

From a sermon given on 20 April 2025:

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay
(Matthew 28:6)

"He died on Friday afternoon, they buried him on Friday evening, and by Sunday morning his tomb was empty. This is God's good news - that death could not hold him, that the grave could not keep him, that he is the Lord of life, the King immortal and eternal." (Keep Believing Ministries)

"There was a plot and a plan to rid of Jesus - to be rid of his ministry, his miraculous teaching, his following and his influence. This was orchestrated by the forces of darkness. Nevertheless, there was another Divine plan for redemption through the Messiah" ( Aaron Frost). When the devil was busy celebrating His death, heavens gave Him a "permanent knock out" - Jesus emerged from the grave!

"If death could not hold Jesus in the tomb, it proved that death had no power over Him. If death was defeated for Jesus, then it is defeated for all those who put their faith in Him. Jesus had to rise from the dead in order to demonstrate the greatness of God's power. 'God wants us not just to believe in Jesus' resurrection but to be transformed by it and to receive the power we need to live the way we know we ought." - Adrian Warnock

Further readings:

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
(John 11:25-26)

For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
(Philippians 2:20-23)

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
(Hebrews 2:14-15)