What Easter Is All About (Pack Of 25)

For three days the lifeless body of Jesus lay in the grave. With Him lay the expectations of all who had followed Him. This wonderful man whom His followers hoped would be the Messiah?the anticipated righteous king sent from God to rule their nation?was brutally seized, tried, tortured and left to die on a cross. But on the third day, as Jesus had foretold, He arose to live, talk, and show Himself again to hundreds of people (1 Corinthians 15:3-6). His resurrection was the ultimate proof of who He is and what He promised. ?Because I live,? He told his disciples, ?you shall live also? (John 14:19). Sharing that resurrection life with those who believe Jesus died for them conveys God?s stamp of approval on what Jesus accomplished on the cross. The Bible says when Jesus Christ died and rose again, it ?delivered us from the wrath to come? (1 Thessalonians 1:10). Christ has risen to prove that God?s wrath was put on Jesus, our debt of sin has been fully paid, and the door of Heaven has swung open! The good news of Easter morning will speak throughout eternity. Our sin separates us from God, our Creator. But because of His love for us, God acted by providing the resolution for that dilemma?Jesus Christ?s willing death to pay our sin-debt to God. ?Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bri