“I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me”
John 14: 6
12 “Look, I AM coming soon! My reward is with Me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. 13 I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22: 12-13
Pastors Noreen & Henry Kevern
It’s SONDAY, HE is Risen, HE is Risen Indeed
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. (Matthew 28:1-6)
I posted on Friday a sermon from S. M. Lockbridge, “And Sunday is Coming”. If you have not read it, you can look it up online or you can watch the actually sermon on Youtube. I started out writing this with a message that was placed on my heart as a watchman who feels so compelled to shout the Good News of our Salavation out. It’s a message of hope, of our Promise keeper, of our Salvation, of HIS Triumphant Return.
As I pondered the days that have gone by since the last year when we celebrated JESUS’ Resurrection, I see a whole different attitude in a lot of people. And I pray that it is an attitude that will grow and continue and bring in a harvest for the LORD.
Today is the day we are celebrating the Resurrection of our LORD JESUS, HIS overcoming death and being raised up into a new Creation, HIS Resurrected Body, that gives us the peace to know that we too, shall be raised up with HIM. What joy that brings me, what hope fills me, what gladness in my heart. I pray that you feel the same way as well.
But do you really understand the reality of what is yet to come?
It’s been over two thousand years since JESUS lived. Seldom do we ponder when will HE return. It’s not really something our churches teach and it’s something that most do not want to think about. But JESUS’ return is what our focus, our whole lives should be thinking about.
Yes, indeed, two thousand years ago, JESUS rose from the dead and HE conquered death, sin, shame “our shame”, and diseases and sickness. Just think about that. Our GOD, the CREATOR of the universe became a baby and grew up just as we do. HIS whole mission for being on this earth was to fulfill the prophecies of old, from the very beginning of the world. After mankind had first sinned, GOD promised that a seed would come from the woman and crush the serpent. And so, GOD did.
The Bible gives us prophecies, warnings or foretelling of events that are to come. The Old Testament prophecies about JESUS first coming have been fulfilled but about HIS Triumphant Return, have not as yet been filled.
Today, we celebrate our get out of jail free card. But have you ever really thought of what that means? We have been freed from the prison of sin, shame, disease, sickness, death. We have been washed clean by the blood of JESUS, we have been clothed in HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS and have been told to “Keep watch, for we do not know the hour” of HIS Return (Matthew 25:13).
But what are we keeping watch for? And what are the signs of HIS Return? Have we been paying attention?
The disciples did not understand what JESUS meant when HE said HE would rise from the dead. And I don’t think that most of us do either. We have had our eyes focused on the past, HIS foretelling, HIS birth, HIS ministry, HIS Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem, HIS Last Supper, HIS arrest, HIS trail, HIS scourging, HIS walk to the cross, when they nailed HIM to the tree; when HE was taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb.
We don’t hear much about how in HIS burial HE obeyed the Sabbath command to rest on the Sabbath. He finished HIS work on Friday and HIS earthly body was laid to rest in the tomb. HIS whole life was leading to the cross and HIS Triumphant Resurrection, but none of HIS disciples understood it. And it was about so much more than HIS Resurrection in this world. HIS life, HIS death, HIS Resurrection, was all pointing to another day. HIS RETURN.
We think today is glorious? It’s nothing compared to the day that is yet to come. We need to look towards the future, and I believe it is not to far off. We have to read the WORD of GOD and study it as our Daily Bread, asking GOD to open it to us and to understand the signs that are so obvious that “we are in the birth pains” of HIS Return (Matthew 24:8).
I remember when I was younger how I thought that I would die in this world and would not experience the Rapture, but the longer I live and know JESUS, the more I feel that I will be here when it happens. I remember seeing those signs in the seventies, JESUS is coming and thinking someday but I won’t be here to see it. Now I feel it is possible that I will being here when HE Returns. Of course I do not know the day and the hour, but I do know the signs “Wars and rumors of wars” (Matthew 24:6) “The love of most growing cold” (Matthew 24:12). I see how many will be upset when HE Returns and says to them, “Away from ME. I never knew YOU” (Matthew 7:23) I see pestilence, plagues, the weather phenomena increasing (Luke 21:11). I see the return of the ancient gods, demons who were driven away when there was such fever for MESSIAH. I see the falling away of so many people, of people not being taught about JESUS, how good is called evil and evil is called good.
But I have hope. I see more and more ministers standing against satan and sin. But the church has so much more to do especially we the Body of CHRIST.
We have to be brave and stand against sin. Our churches, our homes need to be readers and doers of the WORD again.
We are so close to missing the boat. When JESUS Returns, HE will close the door when the time comes. We don’t want to be caught like the five virgins who did not prepare and bring enough oil (Matthew 25).
We need to have an awakening in our bodies, our souls, our minds, our spirits and our hearts. This day is for keeps, there is no going back. JESUS did not falter in going to Calvary to die for us and we should not be afraid to live as if Tomorrow is the DAY of JESUS’ RETURN. HE came as the lamb and died as our Passover sacrifice, HE is the LAMB of GOD. HE is what life is all about. Not us, not our car or our house, not our jobs.
This is such a joyous day that we are celebrating. But another day is coming. For those of you who don’t believe know this, GOD knows everything in your life. Through JESUS’ cross and Resurrection GOD is holding out the gift of HIS love and forgiveness. All you have to do, is take
the gift, ask HIM to forgive you and have a personal relationship with HIM.
Our resurrection day is coming. Not of our return to this life, but of our being caught up in air with the LORD when HE Returns to take from this
world HIS own. This time HE is coming like the LION of JUDAH, to bring
cleansing and HIS righteous judgment to this earth. To separate the sheep from the goats. To take HIS triumphant church home.
I celebrate TODAY because it is the Promise of HIS Triumphant Return. This day opens up to us a new Beginning, to start over and prepare our lives for the final journey we will take, to the glorious KINGDOM of our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS MESSIAH.
This is the DAY that the LORD has made. Let us be glad and rejoice (Psalm 118:24). Walk in the LIGHT of HIS PERFECT LOVE. BE ALERT and look up. HE is coming. HE is coming on the clouds. We will be snatched up.
It’s Friday for the world but SONDAY IS COMING!
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