PAID IN FULL
           

    Signed -   JESUS_

Revelation1:18:   "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold,
 I am alive for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death."
 

kATHY BERNARD - Publisher

THERE is only one single happening that confirms there is life after death and that is through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  For us as Christians, this is the stamp of proof that our Savior was resurrected and stands waiting to take us home to His Father one day.  And so, once again we joyfully celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ Who became the redemptive power to bear the sins of the entire world. Through the misery, the insults, the physical abuse He endured for us, He still stands waiting for mankind to accept Him through faith, promising to open the door to His Father's Kingdom for us to enter one glorious day.

AS we know, the greatest message is the news that Jesus Christ had risen from the dead as He had promised. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the momentous proof of the Christian faith and it is a truth that lies at the very foundation of the Gospel.  Other doctrines of the Christian faith may be important, but the resurrection is significant.  Without a belief in the resurrection of Jesus there can be no personal salvation. None.  The Bible says, "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).

"Paid in Full" is stamped for all who accept His gift of redemption.  We must take into account that this world is not eternal.  The world can only satisfy for a short time, but many of us do not realize that this earthly pursuit of sinful actions can only leave us hungry.  This pursuit that we try to embrace will leave us wanting and it is only when we stop and pray, and let the Holy Spirit remind us that all we need is Jesus because only He can give us the peace we seek.  Keep in mind that no matter what we embrace and cling to here on earth, we will not be able take it with us when we die.

God fulfilled for us what we could not do for ourselves.   He gave us His Son, Jesus.  If we do not have faith in Jesus, we cannot know the joy of salvation that our Savior bought for us through the sacrifice of His earthly life. 
 

"Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is no
other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
- Acts 4: 12

"For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice
by the man He has appointed.  He has given proof of this to everyone
by raising Him from the dead.”
Acts 17:31

Bishop Robert Barron speaking on "The disturbing fact of the resurrection":  "The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the be-all and the end-all of the Christian faith. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, all bishops, priests, and Christian ministers should go home and get honest jobs, and all the Christian faithful should leave their churches immediately.  As Paul himself put it: “If Jesus is not raised from the dead, our preaching is in vain and we are the most pitiable of men.” It’s no good, of course, trying to explain the resurrection away or rationalize it as a myth, a symbol, or an inner subjective experience. None of that does justice to the novelty and sheer strangeness of the Biblical message.  It comes down finally to this: if Jesus was not raised from death, Christianity is a fraud and a joke; if he did rise from death, then Christianity is the fullness of God’s revelation, and Jesus must be the absolute center of our lives.

"And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching in vain, and your faith
is also vain…And if Christ be not raised, your faith (is) vain ye are yet in
your sins." (1 Cor. 15:14-17)

We, as Christians have celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus over 2,000 years ago to the present time.  We know, through belief, that our Savior, Jesus Christ had broken the chains of death many years ago and rose triumphant from the grave.  And He has promised that one day He shall come back to take all believers to His Father.  Will you also stand with them?  Paul told us that the great lesson of the resurrection is that the path of salvation has been opened to everyone.  Jesus did not claim equality with God, rather He emptied himself and took the form of a slave…accepting even death on a cross.”  In a word, Jesus suffered pain, despair, and alienation.  The Lord Himself told us, “When the Son of Man is lifted up, He will draw all people to Himself,” and Paul asserts in 1 Corinthians, “When everything is subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.”  The resurrection shows that Christ will gather back to the Father everyone whom He has embraced through His suffering love.

Ask yourselves, is your faith strong enough to turn away from sin?  Will you accept His eternal salvation?  Do you act on what you believe as a Christian?  Do you have Faith and will put your trust in Jesus?  When earthly temptations come to us, remember the cross and the price our Savior paid for you and for me.   Jesus says in Revelation1:18:   "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death."

We are celebrating once again the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ Who became the redemptive power to bear the sins of the entire world.  "Paid in Full" is stamped for all who accepts His gift of redemption.   Through the misery, the insults, and the pain He endured when beaten and nailed to a cross, He had accomplished the salvation for all mankind.  And it is through our faith in Him that He opens the door for us to enter eternal life.

“Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none
other name under heaven given among men, whereby
we must be saved.”  - Acts 4:12
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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