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BLESSINGS FROM THE HEART

Pastor Cecil A. Thompson

April 6, 2015

“RESURRECTION LIFE!”

Philippians 3:10-11

“I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”       

                                                           

I have enjoyed the song that Bill and Gloria Gaither wrote and have performed many times, Because He Lives.  The first words are so powerful that they leave me breathless. God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus; He came to love, heal and forgive. He lived and died to buy my pardon, an empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!

Yesterday we celebrated Resurrection Day. It was and will always be a cause for rejoicing for every believer that we serve a Savior who is alive. He always was alive, He is alive right now making intercession for us, and He will always be alive as we spend eternity praising Him for giving us eternal life!

Since Jesus has provided us with resurrection life, how should we then live? Paul gives us the answer in Roman 12:18; “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” 

We are urged to overcome evil by doing good. We are not saved by doing good, but the fruit of resurrection life is seeing the good and doing it. Sometimes it means doing good to those who have hurt us in some way. Resurrection life is seeing life as Jesus sees it. Ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?” Then do it!

May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions! 

- - - Pastor Cecil