A Time to Praise: Blessing and Honor and Glory and Dominion

March 20th, mark’s the beginning of Holy Week. During this special season we will have many opportunities to gather together to focus on the final days and hours of Jesus’ earthly life and ministry. As Christians it is our supreme privilege to celebrate the life, death and resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, both individually and collectively! I hope you will make some time to consider and remember afresh that God so loved the world that He sent His beloved and only begotten Son to rescue you, providing a way for sinners like you and I to be reconciled to God. But we dare not lose sight of the fact that our rescue came at the highest of prices … it cost Jesus His very life. And so I would also suggest that you make time not only to reflect on His incredible sacrifice but also on the fact that He was beaten, brutally killed, buried and on the third day He arose from the dead in order that we might have eternal life.

Folks, the single most important event in human history is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ! Without Jesus we would be alienated from God, we would be without hope and there would be no future to look forward to. But because God chose to send Jesus, because of that reality, our failures and sins can be forgiven. Christ’s substituting of Himself for us means that we can look at our sins and say, thank God! He has dealt with it. I couldn’t. He did it for my good. He did it in my place. I can neither contribute to it nor ever deserve such mercy. Because He died, I can truly live. Ultimately, Christ’s substitutionary death, stripped of all its legal imagery, makes one central point, which lies at the heart of the atonement. He did for us on the cross all that was necessary to put us in a right relationship with God. And that is something we could never, ever have done apart from Him.  Click here to read more.