He is Risen Indeed!

Ironically, this week, in our “Read the Bible Through” plan for the year, we read the first two chapters in Luke which recount the events of Jesus’ birth.  Whereas we celebrate that “Season” by recalling God’s gift of Jesus at Christmas, it is Easter that calls us to remember, reflect, and respond to the “Reason” He came.

This week, I heard the song, “It’s About the Cross” for the first time.  What a beautiful reminder about the gift of Jesus being the reason we can be born again and have eternal life with our Heavenly Father.  Because Jesus willingly became the sacrifice for our sins, with his death, burial, and resurrection, we are offered the gifts of forgiveness, salvation, new life, and purpose.  Every day may our lives reflect our belief that He is risen indeed!

“It’s About the Cross”

Band “Go Fish”

It’s not just about the manger

Where the baby lay

It’s not all about the angels

Who sang for him that day

It’s not just about the shepherds

Or the bright and shining star

It’s not all about the wisemen

Who travelled from afar

Chorus:

It’s about the cross

It’s about my sin

It’s about how Jesus came to be born once

So that we could be born again

It’s about the stone

That was rolled away

So that you and I could have real life today

It’s about the cross

It’s about the cross

It's not just about the presents

Underneath the tree

It's not all about the feeling

That the season brings to me

 

It’s not just about coming home

To be with those you love

It’s not all about the beauty

In the snow I’m dreaming of

Repeat chorus

The beginning of the story is wonderful and great

But it’s the ending that can save you and that’s why we celebrate

It’s about the cross

It’s about my sin

It’s about how Jesus came to be born once

So that we could be born again

It’s about God’s Son

Nailed to a tree

It’s about every drop of blood that flowed from Him

When it should have been me

It’s about the stone

That was rolled away

So that you and I could have real life someday

So that you and I could have real life someday

It’s about the cross

It’s about the cross

It’s about the cross

But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

Matthew 28:6-7

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 19:10

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Romans 10:9-10

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

I John 1:7

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

Psalms 34:8