Will glorify his name

The resurrection of Jesus Christ fulfilled Old Testament prophecy, established the defeat of death, and gave all people the assurance of everlasting life.

In Exodus, Moses asked God to give him a response when the Israelites question him about the God of their fathers. ‘They will say to me, “’What is his name?’ What shall I say to them?” God then said to Moses, “I am who I am,” and, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I Am’ has sent me to you.”

In today’s church and secular culture the concept of sin is almost forgotten. Yet that is the message of Easter, the Resurrection. Jesus, God’s son, the great I Am, became sin on mankind’s behalf. The great I Am became the payment for sin for all time: past, present, and future.

Jesus transcends all earthly titles, crowns, and time itself to be the Old Testament fulfillment of the Messiah. Jesus was the fulfillment of the Levitical system of blood sacrifice. He was the Old Testament lamb without blemish or spot. Through his shed blood and resurrection we have victory over sin and death.

“For this reason, I bow my knees before the father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask of think, according to the power that works within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.” Amen.

What does Easter mean to me? Jesus, only Jesus. “I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify thy name forever.”

JANICE HOUSLEY

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