“Why Easter?”

 “Why Easter?”

 

For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not die but have Eternal Life.   John 3:16

 

What is the purpose of having EASTER?  It’s NOT new clothes, or vacation time, it’s not Easter baskets filled with LOTS of GOODIES, like CHOCOLATE Bunnies, and CHICKS, with pretty-colored Easter eggs, and ALL kinds of other things.  

The TRAGEDY of EASTER DAY is that most children believe that these material things are the reason for the holiday.  They don’t know what the REAL REASON is for celebrating this DAY.  To be honest with you, I try NOT to call it EASTER, but instead I like to call it RESURRECTION DAY!  Because JESUS CHRIST, God’s ONLY SON, was horribly beaten to the point of not being able to recognize who He was.  He was tortured when he hung on that old rugged cross. And He shed His BLOOD to SAVE ALL mankind.  He was laid in a TOMB and then in THREE DAYS, He was RESURRECTED or BROUGHT OUT of the TOMB.  And so, His part of the SALVATION PLAN was FINISHED.  Now, it was time for MANKIND to RESPOND to GOD’s INVITATION to become a part of His Family.

Would they RESPOND in a POSITIVE manner?  NO!  Some people have ACCEPTED God’s Invitation, but MOST have NOT.   God did NOT send His Only Son into the world to be its JUDGE, but to be its SAVIOR.  And those who BELIEVE in the Son are NOT JUDGED, but those who do NOT BELIEVE are ALREADY JUDGED, because they have NOT BELIEVED in God’s Only Son.  

And so, this is the TRUE BELIEVER’S HOPE:  That they are SET FREE from their SINS and will one day be RESURRECTED, like our LORD JESUS and become a part of God’s Family with an ETERNITY in Heaven with ALL its BLESSINGS and be able to ESCAPE HELL with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there.  This is WHY we CELEBRATE RESURRECTION DAY.

The Bunny Rabbit, the Witches and Ghosts, nor Santa Claus, SUFFERED, BLED, and DIED to SAVE your SOUL from an ETERNITY in HELL.  Does your CHILDREN or GRANDCHILDREN, know who JESUS is and what He has done for them?  Do you KNOW the IMPACT this KNOWLEDGE will have on YOUR and THEIR ETERNITY?

If you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, who PAID THE PRICE to SECURE you an ETERNITY in HEAVEN then you TRULY don’t KNOW or BELIEVE, but you can, if you will ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST. And BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS DIED for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for you before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFE-STYLE and TURN to GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and KNOW the REAL REASON for CELEBRATING RESURRECTION DAY (Easter) and SHARE IT with YOUR CHILDREN.  Do this NOW while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!