04/05/2026
🙌 Easter Sunday at Restoration Chapel 🙌
This morning, we sat in one of the most important stories ever told, the final hours of Jesus' life, His death on the cross, and the moment everything changed when the tomb was found empty.
We didn't skim over it. We immersed ourselves in it. Verse by verse.
We talked about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, not afraid to die, but about to carry the weight of every sin ever committed by every human being who has ever lived. A perfect, holy God who had never experienced sin was about to have the sins of the entire world poured out on Him. That's not a small thing. That's THE thing.
We walked through the betrayal, the false accusations, the mocking, the beatings. We talked about what the cat o' nine tails actually did to His body. When we understand what He actually endured, it stops being a holiday and starts being what it really is. The most costly act of love in human history.
We talked about the temple curtain (three feet thick, requiring more force than any human could produce) torn from top to bottom the moment He breathed His last. The barrier between humanity and God, gone. Not patched. Not cracked. Torn completely in two.
And we talked about what that means for us today.
Not just forgiveness, though that alone would be enough. But FREEDOM. Freedom from shame. Freedom from fear. Freedom from anxiety. Freedom from everything we've been running to for relief that has never actually brought any.
He didn't die so we could keep carrying all of that. He died so we could put it down.
And maybe the most important thing said this morning was this: you don't have to clean up before you come to Jesus. You don't have to have it together. You don't have to be the right kind of person, come from the right kind of background, or have the right kind of story.
All you have to do is say — Jesus, I am a sinner in need of a Savior. Your work on the cross is the only way. Come into my life. I surrender.
That's it. That's the whole thing. And He does the rest.
If you were in the room this morning — carry what God put in your heart today into the week ahead. Don't let Monday morning steal what Sunday planted.