GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 25

Today is the last day of Charles Spurgeon book, “The Risen King”

 Tomorrow, we start with Erwin Lutzer’s book, “Chiseled by the Master’s Hand”….  “Lessons From the Life of Peter”

HE IS RISEN!!!

Matthew 28:6

“He is not here, for He has risen, as He said.   Come, see the place where He lay.”

The resurrection of Christ is vital because it tells us that the gospel is the gospel of the living Savior.  Let it be known and understood that foundational to our faith is that Christ’s very limbs, which lay stiff and cold in death, became warm with life again.  The silent heart began to beat again, and through the stagnant canals of the veins the lifeblood began to circulate.  The soul of the Redeemer again took possession of the body, and He lived once more!!! 

Let it be known that the very body which lay there, with its bones and blood and flesh, became again animated with life, and came forth into a glorious existence.  He was no phantom — no illusion.  Jesus is a real man in glory now, even as He was when here below.  Now, we always want to have that doctrine stated to us plainly, for though we believe it, we do not always realize it.  Even if we have realized it, it is good to hear it again, to confirm  it in our minds.

The doctrine of a risen Savior is exceedingly precious.  The resurrection is the cornerstone of the entire building of Christianity.  It is the keystone of the arch of our salvation.  When Our Lord Jesus rose from the dead, after having died, He had fully paid the penalty that was due to justice for the sin of His people, and His new life as a life clear of penalty, free from liability.  You and I are clear from the claims of the law because Jesus stood in our stead, and God will not exact payment both from us and from our substitute.

So now, joy upon joy!  He who took our debt has now delivered Himself from it by dying on the cross.  His new life, now that He has risen from the dead, is a life free from legal claim, and it is the token to us, whom He represented, that we are free also.  Listen!!  “Who shall  bring any charge against God’s elect?  It is God who justifies, Who is to condemn?  Christ Jesus is the one who died – more than that, who was raised.”  (Romans 8:33-34).

Fear takes a knockdown blow when the apostle says we cannot be condemned because Christ has died in our stead – but he puts a double force into it when he cries, “More than that, who was raised….”   

If Satan should come to any believer and say, “What about YOUR sin?”  tell him that Jesus died for it, and your sin is put away.  If he asks a second time, answer  him, “Jesus lives, and His life is the assurance of our justification.”

Remember your risen Lord and how He cares for you.  Do weaknesses hinder you?  The living Christ will show Himself strong on your behalf.  If you have received His forgiveness and submitted totally to Him, you have a living Christ, and in Him you have all things.  Do you dread death?  Jesus, in rising again, has vanquished the last enemy.  He will come and meet you when it is your turn to pass through the chill stream, and you shall cross it in sweet company.  What is your trouble?  No matter what it is, if you will only think of Jesus as living, full of power, full of love, and full of sympathy, having experienced all your trials even to death, you will have a confidence in His tender care and in His boundless ability that you will follow in His footsteps without a question.  Remember Jesus and that He rose again from the dead, and your confidence will rise as on eagles’ wings.

Today, in some way or another, I pray you make known that Jesus Christ is risen.  Pass the news around, as the ancient Christians did.  On the first day of the week, they said to one another, , “the Lord is risen indeed.”  If anyone asks what you mean by it, you will then be able to tell them the whole gospel.  For this is the essence of the gospel that Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures.  He died as the substitute for us criminals and rose as the representative of us pardoned sinners;  He died that our sins might die and lives again that our souls may live.

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Matthew 26:32

But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.”

Matthew 27:52

and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Psalm 16:10

For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

So…….

Acts 13:37

but He whom God raised up saw no corruption.

Matthew 12:40

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Luke 13:32

And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’

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