Easter Sunday
Posted by Unknown , Monday, April 25, 2011 9:05 AM
Easter at the Bren
Pastor Mike Fabarez.
www.compassbiblechurch.org
Such a busy Spring Break. Lots of work! Our church has so much going on around Easter. Our annual outreach program, Good Friday Services, and Easter Services at a bigger venue. We pack up the whole church, furniture, toys, carpets, supplies, and head over to a rented building so we can fit people into our Easter services. This is the second year I have been involved in getting the kids ministry up and running for Easter, and its a lot of work and planning. Our staff is awesome. Both services ran smoothly. I am so blessed to be a part of our church family. After services I ran back home to meet up with all our family and friends for a late lunch/early dinner in the canyon. Brett's dad, stepmom, nephew, and his sisters family all drove down to visit, as well as some of our friends from church. The little kids did an egg hunt and ran amok all over the property.
I think Easter is my favorite holiday. It feels productive. Reflecting on the finished work of Jesus Christ. Without the resurrection we would have no basis for Christianity. The gift of salvation would not exist. God had such an amazing plan, hundreds of years before Jesus ever stepped foot on the earth, prophets foretold about his coming, and Jesus fulfilled every prophesy they gave. You can go back, look at the scripture, try to disprove it, and you can't. History can't erase what happened on the cross. Jesus was sent to pay the price we could not pay. To live a perfect life because we can't. So that he can be a propitiation for our sin. Think you are a good person? No one is good, not one. We all sin, everyday. It's our curse. But God gave us a way out. Repenting of our sins, and putting our faith in Jesus, the son of the ONE TRUE GOD. Do we become perfect after that? No, of course not. We still struggle with sin, we still mess up. The bible tells us that when you are saved, God sends the Holy Spirit to live in us, to help us want to sin less. A penitent person will actually WANT to sin less, we will learn to HATE sin. We will never be perfect, and thanks to Jesus we don't have to be. Praise God that he loved us enough to send His son, to take my punishment, to a most undeserving human. None of us deserve it. Jesus died a humiliating, beyond painful death so I could live with Him forever.
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