Worshiping from Home | Sunday, April 12, 2020
April 10th, 2020Happy Easter! We would like to ask you to do something that we hope will prove fun and encouraging for your family. As we all look to Jesus and celebrate His resurrection, rehearse together as a family the many ways His new life in you, His resurrection life in you, are expressed in your daily life.
What difference does His resurrection make in your everyday living? Think of all of the blessings His life in you brings to others as He works His sanctifying grace through your life.
What does the new life of Jesus in you look like in your marriage, parenting, singleness, work, friendships, spending, goals/dreams/plans, church-life, hobbies and in your response to God’s sovereign work in this pandemic? How are others being blessed by God’s grace in your life?
The reality of Jesus’ resurrection life is profoundly life-defining according to the apostle Paul:
“We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4).
How is this newness of life being seen and heard in what you do and say?
Jesus saved Paul from a life of murder, hatred, and violence. And during His Christian life, Paul experienced terrible suffering, and he saw people do terrible things. Through it all, Paul put his hope in Jesus and celebrated knowing Jesus in every way he could:
“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ…” (Phil. 3:7-8).
Are you celebrating? You have every reason to be full of joy, hope and peace in Him. Rest your soul in the new life of Jesus in you–a life which God will bring to Himself one day as you celebrate in heaven for all eternity. This is your inheritance due to the righteous, resurrection life of Jesus in you.
“For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His” (Rom. 6:5).
“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him” (Rom. 6:8-9).
Nothing can overcome or extinguish the resurrection life of Jesus in you, beloved. You belong to Jesus. And His resurrection life in you is the difference for your holy life of pleasing Him now, and it is the difference in why you have joy and hope and peace beyond human understanding in the face of so much earthly uncertainty. Keep seeking Him (Col. 3:1-2).
Instead of providing one sermon link, we’ve listed several live-streamed services for you to choose from this Easter. Whichever you choose, we know you will be blessed as the Word is taught and Christ is exalted.
Livestream Easter Service Links:
Faith Bible Church (10:30am ET, John Crotts, pastor)
Grace Community Church (1:30pm ET, John MacArthur, pastor)
Grace Immanuel Bible Church (10:45am ET | Jerry Wragg, pastor)
Parkside Church (9:45am ET, Alistair Begg, pastor)