~ The Central Point ~
Easter
is the central pivot of three historically great events!
Christmas (God with
us) ~ “‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they
shall call His name Immanuel,’ which is translated, ‘God with us’” (Matthew
1:23).
Easter (God for
us) ~ Jesus said, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not
perish but have eternal life. For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world
to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
“He
who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God. And this is the condemnation, that
the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil. For
everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest
his deeds should be exposed. But he who
does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that
they have been done in God” (John 3:14-21).
Pentecost (God in
us) ~ Jesus said, "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will
give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of
truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows
Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to
you. A little while longer and the world
will see Me no more, but you will see Me.
Because I live, you will live also” (John 14:15-19).
“But
you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God
dwells in you. Now if anyone does
not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the
Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who dwells in you” (Romans 8:9-11).
Questions ~ Do you
understand the extreme importance of these three events? If so, what have you done about it? Do you know without a doubt where you will
spend eternity?
~ Robert
Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT
LIFE NOW blog.
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