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Meeks Communications. Fowler Media Partners. Calvary Chapel of Lima. I got some use of my left leg and hip back, but I had to wear a steel and leather brace for the first several years of my life.
I had several orthopedic surgeries and 14 years of physical therapy. No weeping, no hurt or pain No suffering You hold me now You hold me now. No darkness, no sick or lame No hiding, You hold me now You hold me now.
The first time I walk without a limp will be in my resurrected body, in heaven where there will be no polio, no weakness, no limping. There will be no scooters in heaven. No wheelchairs. No walkers. No insulin pumps. No percussion vests for cystic fibrosis. No cochlear implants for the deaf. No braille books or signs for the blind. No dentures or dental implants. No prosthetics. All the technology and tools we have developed to help people deal with life in a fallen, broken world will be obsolete and never needed again.
The fallen, broken world will be resurrected too! Full of glory and beauty and strength and perfection. What difference does the resurrection make? It affects how I live through times of pain and suffering. I know I can bear it if there is a purpose and God is going to make everything right. The resurrection means God sustains me through the difficult times because He is doing a beautiful thing in me that I will only be able to see and appreciate in my resurrection body.
The resurrection means that if we are believers, if we have trusted in Christ, when we cross over from life on earth to life in heaven, we will be with Jesus and with all the people, starting with Adam and Eve, who put their trust in Him.
We can look forward to meeting super distant family members and even people we heard about but never met, like the apostles and Saint Augustine and Corrie Ten Boom and Billy Graham. We leave our bodies and step across the threshold of heaven to be with Jesus. There are so many stories of what a difference the resurrection makes in the life of a believer as they face death! Recently I posted a question on Facebook asking friends to share dying stories of heaven-bound believers.
I got so many delightful responses! She tells of one man, O. His best friend, Floyd, had gone to heaven several years earlier. Charla said he was peaceful and close to death as she sat with him, holding his hand and speaking soothing words to him.
All of a sudden, with his eyes still closed, O. Brother Bob! Then while in the hospital, Aunt Rose walked by a statue of Jesus and paused as if talking to him. She exclaimed that heaven was so beautiful, so filled with warmth and kindness. It means being legitimately concerned about the dying process hurting, but not concerned about what happens one minute after death. Another difference the resurrection makes is that we become more aware of the unseen, eternal world.
Since Jesus said He had come from heaven, and that He would rise from the dead in 3 days— and then He did! What a hodge podge of real alive emotions. They saw Jesus suffering, dying, and then being laid in a tomb. They saw it all. It belonged to Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy man who had become a disciple. An Old Testament prophecy is fulfilled Isaiah More like a two night BNB guest than a full time resident in this tomb.
But as the Creator of the universe cemetery real-estate was not a thing Jesus needed to invest in. It was the Jewish custom to use a tomb dug into rock which had stone ledges on three sides of the tomb to lie a body on—or, I should say, plural, bodies—and then the bones removed later.
It was like a communal tomb. Wealthier families would have their own tomb and used for centuries. No one had yet been laid in this tomb. Jesus was the first. While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.
And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day. All kinds of truth-stopping rumours ensued. The priests paid off the guards handsomely to spread a lie that the disciples had stolen him. This lie actually worked. People are still trying to negate the resurrection as is just such incredulous thing. It challenges us to either not believe it or to let it change us. Nicodemus, the rich man who came to Jesus at night to ask how he could be born again did something with this Jesus.
He brought 75 pounds of spices, myrrh, and aloes which His body was then wrapped in. But wrapping Jesus is spices meant that Jesus was really dead. The women who came early that Sunday morning were coming to be with Him. I try to imagine myself as one of these Marys. If I was one of them I would expect to be mourning. I would come to weep. I probably did not sleep well at all, worried and wondering and in full heart pain. I would have wanted to be near the one I loved and lost, so right after the Sabbath was over I would have run to the tomb early.
People who visit their loved ones at a graveside can understand this. It provides connection. But these Marys who came so early in the morning expected a dead Jesus wrapped in grave cloths. Instead, they see a celestial being—not a human, but an angel with lights on. By the tomb they see a stone rolled away, and inside, only grave cloths. Then, on top of all that, they see a walking dead man! Probably because they actually were really very afraid. Jesus calms their fears, and they realize Jesus is no longer dead but risen and alive.
They see Jesus just as the angel said they would. They believe and have just become the first witnesses to the resurrection of the son of God. What is this resurrection about? Just on good Friday we remembered the crucifixion. If the crucifixion is death of sin , the overcoming of all evil powers, and the way to freedom and forgiveness, then the resurrection is the confirmation , the proof that death is dead.
The resurrection seals the deal. The resurrection establishes the risen Jesus as the King of this new Kingdom, as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who will rule and reign forever, and nothing or no one can ever cause His death again, not even our sin.
Death is not the last word, Jesus is. In the resurrection clearly the new covenant, the new Kingdom, has come to birth. In the book of Galatians Paul shows that the cross is death to the flesh or sin, and the resurrection is the opposite, it is life by the Spirit. Here is the big vast contrast. The resurrection means it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
There could be no greater contrast, me in control of my life or Jesus in me as king of my life. Galatians The resurrection pulls us right out of the mire of our sins, lifts us up out of our muck and mistakes, lifts us out of the old and into the new, takes us from death to life.
Our faith is worth something real. When I was just a wee thing, 7 years old, our family lived in Winnipeg for a year.
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