04/06/2026
The Message of Easter:
1️⃣. GOD CREATED US TO BE WITH HIM
God loves us and created us to live in a relationship with Him.
2️⃣. THE PROBLEM: OUR SINS SEPARATE US FROM HIM
Our sin separates us from God because He's perfect and without sin.
Because God is righteous, He must ultimately judge sin. The result is death and separation from God.
✳️ “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.” (Romans 5:12)
✳️ “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23)
GOD'S STANDARD IS PERFECTION
God is going to judge the world by the standard of the Ten Commandments, a standard of complete perfection from the day we were born till the day we die.
No matter how diligently we attempt to live a good life, we cannot meet the measure of holiness God requires. All it takes is one sin to separate us from God, because He is perfect and holy.
✳️ “Whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.”—James 2:10
✳️ “All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.” (Isaiah 64:6)
✳️ “There is no one righteous, not even one…” (Romans 3:10-12)
3️⃣. GOD'S BRIDGE: THE CROSS
Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for our sin.
God chose to provide a “sacrifice” for our sins, His own son Jesus. Through His death, Jesus took the punishment for our sin and bridged the gap between God and people.
✳️ “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
✳️ “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)
✳️ “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” (1 Peter 3:18)
✳️ “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God.” (1 Corinthians 5:21)
THE RESURRECTION
Three days after Jesus died, he rose from the dead. This is not just religious hype; it is historical fact. And because Jesus rose from the dead, He now sits at the right hand of God making intercession (carrying messages for us and speaking to God on our behalf) for us.
✳️ “Christ died for our sins…He was buried…He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures…He appeared to Peter, then to the twelve (disciples). After that he appeared to more than five hundred others…” (1 Corinthians 15:3-6)
4️⃣. JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD
The Bible is clear; the only way to abundant, eternal life is through a relationship with Jesus Christ. God proved that He accepted Jesus’ death as the way to life by raising Jesus from the dead.
✳️ “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
5️⃣. OUR RESPONSE: RECEIVE JESUS AS SAVIOR AND LORD
We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior by personal invitation. We must invite him to be our leader and guide.
✳️ “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:12)
The Bible promises that when you ask God for forgiveness and trust in Jesus, you will experience new life in Christ.
✳️ “If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
When we trust in Jesus alone to forgive our sins, He promises to give us abundant, eternal life.
✳️ “I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.” (John 6:47)
The word “believe” means more than believing Jesus existed. It means “to trust in, to rely upon completely.”
