Pastor John, this weekend, we will be celebrating Resurrection Sunday in a nutshell, what

is the significance of Easter?

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came into the world from the Father, born of a virgin,

lived and sinned this life, did wonderful miracles, loved people, blew all of our categories,

and never the last was crucified for our sins, and then on the third day, and this is

Easter, the celebration of that Sunday, he was raised from the dead, never to die again.

And Luke tells us, having done all of these historical research that he, for 40 days,

gave many insolable proofs and called himself, who as a kind of Johnny, come lately to the

Apostle, said that when he wrote first Corinthians, 500 people had seen him alive, and some of

those are still alive, if you want to go talk to them, that's the kind of historical

control they had, he was raised physically, they recognized him, they kept their hands

in his wounds, he ate fish in front of them, precisely to say, a spirit, a ghost doesn't

have flesh and bones, as you see that I have, he was more, more than physical because

he seemed to go and come, and we don't know, doors didn't lock doors didn't get in his

way, so there's this unusual new dimension to his body, he ascended to the right hand

of the Father, he sits on the throne with God, he intercedes for us there, praying for

his people every day, he's reigning until he puts all of his enemies under his feet,

and if Matthew says he has all authority in heaven and on earth, he'll never die again

if the keys of death and hell in his hands for starters Tony, that's what happened, and

the question then, I mean just to add this, the question there is, so what's the application

of that stunning claim and reality for us, and I would say one, it means my sins are

forgotten, because Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15, if Christ is not raised, we're still in

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