POWERFUL EASTER MESSAGE

This clip illustrates in a powerful way how the sacrifice of Jesus must have completely broken the heart of God the Father, and how Easter should also include a time of expressing our gratitude not only to Jesus, but to the Father as well.

This week over a billion people will celebrate Easter. We celebrate the fact that Jesus Christ came back from the dead after paying the ultimate price for our sins. We celebrate the fact that salvation is available through trusting in the risen Savior of the world. But even though we celebrate, sometimes we forget. There was more than one sacrifice that was made on the hill called The Skull where Jesus hung on the Cross and poured out His life.

There was also a Daddy. He watched in heaven as His precious Son was spit on, insulted, tortured, and finally murdered by people who had no idea who they were killing. The heart of God the Father must have been shattered into a million pieces as the land grew dark and Jesus cried out to His Papa. Then Jesus shouted, "Father, I entrust My spirit into Your hands!" And with those words he breathed his last." (Luke 23:46)

That's why this Easter you need to remember and celebrate not only the earthly side of the gospel message, but the heavenly side as well. "But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." (Romans 5:8)

While we were on the train, headed for destruction, while we were addicts and selfish, sinful people, while we were clueless about the destiny of eternal souls, a Daddy chose to love us and choose to let His one and only Son be crushed by the gears of Crucifixion.

On Easter Sunday, take some time to watch the video again. Let it remind you of the tragedy and triumph of that first Easter, and let it convince you that you have a heavenly Daddy that loves you too much to live without you. What you need to know about this truth is that Easter is the time when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we also need to remember how God showed His amazing love by sending Jesus to die for our sins.

And what you need to feel about this truth is that Psalm 22 was written from the perspective of Jesus as He was hanging on the Cross. Read it and imagine how Jesus felt and how the Father felt as He watched Jesus suffer for us.

What you need to do about this truth is to thank God the Father for sending Jesus to die for our sins.