Because today, Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 is both a Wednesday and the first day of the month,

we are combining this month's grace and knowledge essay reading and today's Wednesday's

Word weekly devotional reading into a single podcast episode.

We hope that it helps you meditate and celebrate the resurrection this coming Sunday. He is risen.

This might sound controversial at first, but it's not meant to be.

It's more of an exhortation than a critique.

Let me state it and then explain it.

I have a complaint about our typical Easter Sunday celebration and theology. Too often we only

emphasize the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Well, isn't that what we're supposed to do? Of course,

and we should. But the problem is that we just stop there, and that gospel theology doesn't

go far enough. Why? Because Christ's redeeming work doesn't end with his resurrection. It continues

with his royal pri It continues with his

royal priestly ascension and reign next to the Father. At the beginning of Ephesians,

the Apostle Paul can't write about the gospel for very long without jumping straight into the

reign and kingship of Christ. He prays without ceasing that the church in Ephesus and us today

would have the eyes of your hearts enlightened that you may know

what is the hope to which he has called you. What are the riches of his glorious inheritance in

the saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe? According to

the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead

and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule

and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age,

but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all

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