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Walk With Jesus - Day 7 I tell you the Truth, [Sunday] Resurrection Sunday (Easter) also the "Feast of First Fruits," the first Sunday of the week after the feasts of the "Lord's Passover & Unleavened Bread" Sunday, the first day of the week, we arise early. Today is also a feast day, the fourth feast, the "Feast of First Fruits". In Leviticus 23, Feast of First Fruits is specifically to be celebrated on the first Sunday of the week after the Passover. Today is also the day the seal is scheduled to be removed from the tomb of Jesus. Some of the women go early in the morning to await access to the tomb in order to continue anointing the body of Jesus. While walking to the tomb the women encounter an Angel who asks them why they are seeking the "Living" among the dead. The women continue walking. They arrive at the tomb and they see the Roman seal is broken, the stone is rolled back and looking into the tomb they notice that the body of Jesus is missing however His burial wrappings remain there in an undisturbed manner. Seeing the Gardener, the women ask where he has moved the body of Jesus. The Gardener replies, "Mary." Mary knows this voice. This Gardener is JESUS, HE IS ALIVE! Mary and the women grab the feet of Jesus. Jesus tells them that He has not yet gone to the Father [John 20:17] but to go and tell the Good News "of the resurrection" to the rest of the disciples. Peter and John, like the rest of the disciples doubt this story of the resurrection of Jesus but they run to the tomb to see for themselves. John and Peter enter the empty tomb together. John had been one of the disciples at the crucifixion and he helped place Jesus into the tomb. As John saw the anointed strips of cloth used to wrap the body of Jesus, he realizes that the cloth was not unwound but just empty, vacated and collapsed in a way in which a human body could not have been physically removed from within the cloth covered with ointment. John seeing this, believed [John 20:8]. Back in the upper room, two disciples are excitedly telling of meeting and journeying with the Risen Jesus on their way to the town of Emmaus, [Luke 24:33]. Meanwhile, in the upper-room the door is shut and locked [John 20:19] and suddenly Jesus appears in heir midst in a supernatural way. The resurrected Jesus presents Himself to the disciples. The disciples marvel that Jesus is alive and then King Jesus breathes His breath on them to give them His resurrection Spirit life. Amazed, we realize that this is the same way and the same giver of Life who had previously breathed life into Adam [Genesis 2:7]. Jesus said "receive you the Holy Spirit" [John 20:22]. The disciples by faith receive the Holy Spirit offered by Jesus and by receiving the Holy Spirit they become "Born Again" as new creations. We soon realize that it is by Faith that we receive salvation! Through faith in the risen, living, resurrection Jesus, we receive eternal life. The night before, we were at our lowest point. But today, we rejoice. Like the children of Israel who were delivered from Egypt, we have escaped the bondage of this world and the cruelty of Satan and the certain death that goes with it. We have escaped by the death of the Firstborn Son of God, His Son Jesus Christ, and we are now alive in His resurrection glory. We like, the Jews of Egypt, have wandered in the desert wilderness of unbelief until our unbelief has vanished. Through faith in Jesus (Joshua) Christ we have crossed the dangerous Jordan River and entered into the Promise Land of Heaven having accepted Jesus as our leader, our King, and our Lord by entering into His New Covenant, the covenant of life. Now alive we realize that the death of sin has "Passed Over" us by receiving His shed blood as the cleansing of our sins through the death of Jesus on the cross. We now rejoice in the Gospel of Good News that Jesus being righteous, holy, just, and true, the Son of God and God Himself, that He overcome death and is alive. Easter Sunday passes, but our walk with Jesus continues. Today, some two thousand years later, He still walks with us. This same Jesus, the resurrected Savior still offers the good news of salvation today and tomorrow. He is still alive and His Spirit continues to reach out to a lost world.
2 Corinthians 4:6
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