The Safest Soul in All the World: Rejoicing in the Risen Christ

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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David Mathis | The safest soul in all the universe is the one that rejoices in the risen Christ. God will never destroy those who delight in his Son.

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0:00.0	The Lord is risen.
0:02.0	The Lord is risen to be.
0:05.0	Amen.
0:06.0	Whatever the origins of our word Easter,
0:11.0	and apparently they're too ancient and too complicated even for Encyclopedia Britannica
0:20.0	to mail down exactly with certainty what Easter meant originally.
0:25.3	Easter has come to function for us today as a two-syllable designation for resurrection Sunday.
0:35.8	That's a good a brief.
0:37.4	Six syllables down to two.
0:40.2	That's what I mean by Easter.
0:42.4	Resurrection Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead.
0:46.0	It's the highest day in the church calendar.
0:50.0	And it's the one Sunday that we specially celebrate the reality that we seek to live in light of every day.
1:00.0	It's not that he was dead yesterday.
1:03.0	It's not that he was dead yesterday. It's been alive for 20 centuries on the throne of heaven.
1:09.0	On Easter, we celebrate that Jesus, the eternal son of God, who lived on earth in full humanity
1:18.2	and died on the cross for sins, not his own, rose again bodily on that Sunday.
1:27.1	And this year on Easter, we find ourselves
1:30.6	at the midway point of the book of Philippians. Here we are right in the middle of
1:34.2	Philippians on Easter Sunday. And so in meditating on these verses in recent days and with Easter in view that word safe in
1:50.3	verse one has really stuck out to me.
1:52.6	What does it mean?
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