Resurrection Change Continues
Some Passes, Some Lasts
All the immediate happenings on that first Easter did not become perpetual, but the resurrection remains. All the immediate happenings on Easter, 2010, did not become perpetual but the re-deeming and healing presence and power of the Crucified and Risen Christ remains!
When Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected there were awesome natural phenomena. The sun eclipsed! The earth quaked! What a shaking! Those were happenings. There were more. Graves opened and many dead saints came to life again and walked the streets of Jerusalem. The Bible says so.
Lasting Phenomena
There was more. The heavy impenetrable veil, the curtain, that separated the people from the closest holy presence of God ripped from top to bottom. All this accompanied the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Jesus’ resurrection was not a resuscitation. Others who were raised from the dead still died, but not Christ! He was changed and that change continues. He IS risen!
Some Hope in Passing Events
Some “shallow saints” seem to anchor their hopes and expectations on obvious happenings of the moment and miss the continuing change God affects.
Saints rising from their graves because Jesus Christ rose were part of the first fruits of the Great Resurrection of the dead when Jesus comes again. In fact, it happened then on the morning of the Feast of First Fruits when the devout Jews were doing their religious duty.
The ripped veil in the temple reminds us that the people’s open access via the crucified Christ into the very presence of Almighty God continues.
The Resurrection Remains
The Resurrection Change continues! Because Christ IS risen He is. He welcomes you and me into all the provisions He purchased and acquired in His death and resurrection!
Because He lives we live also!
[Editor's Note: I am a blessed man to know Joel and Janelle McGraw. He has been my friend since junior high days. He is the senior pastor of Faith Chapel Pentecostal Holiness Church in Huntsville. AL. He is a gifted writer, preacher, pastor, and friend. The above message appeared in this week's newsletter. I noted in his upcoming church schedule that Bishop James D. Leggett will be the guest speaker/preacher on Sunday, May 16, 2010, at 10:15 a. m. Bishop Leggett is the president of Holmes Bible College in Greenville, SC.
To contact Joel and Janelle McGraw you may write or call:
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. McGraw
Faith Chapel
3913 Pulaski Pike NW
Huntsville, AL 35810
852-1606
Posted on
Sat, April 10, 2010
by Hugh Morgan