HOW YESHUA (JESUS) WANTS US TO LOOK AT EASTER

From the beginning of time, God had a plan.  He made that plan out of love. He wanted us to know how much He loves us and how much He wants us to live with Him throughout eternity.  It was the plan that He would send His son to live as human and die for our sins, being risen from the dead to conquer the life lease that the enemy, satan, had stolen from mankind. (Genesis 3)

John 3:16-17 (NASB)

16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.” 

As sin was the downfall of mankind, which keeps us from being with our Father in heaven, as He can not look upon our sins because they are evil in His sight. Our unconditional loving Father, who is our creator, was willing to sacrifice His only begotten Son, Jesus, so we would no longer need a sacrificial lamb to give every year to cover our sins. This is where Jesus is referred to as the lamb that was sacrificed. (Leviticus 16)

Jesus followed the law of Moses (Ten Commandments) and was baptized by water, and the Holy Spirit on the same day, He lived as a Jew who came from a family of carpenters and was the only begotten son of God.  Jesus was even tempted by the devil in the wilderness for 40 days, where He was tried in different ways, all of which led to the main sins of the time and with all those temptations that were given, He refused the devil for the sake of the covenant that was to be made. Until His final breath, when He became sin, so that His righteousness and His blood covering, would be able to, cover our sins for all time.  He fulfilled the prophecy through love and made a new covenant, between us and God, so He could be our mediator that would stand for us, if we accept Him into our hearts, between sin and death or a life with God in eternity.

What Jesus did for us replaced the blood sacrifice on the day of Atonement and He became that sacrifice, which atoned our sins through His blood sacrifice on the cross.  How much more love could a man show than to lay down His life for another?  Yet Jesus did it for all of creation, if they could only understand what that means, everyone would seek to know Him and accept Him as Lord of their lives.

John 15:13 (NASB)

12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another.

God chose this path for His only begotten son.  Just think how much love this is for us.  God is a Father, who was willing to sacrifice His Son to die for others, so they may have life eternal.  I think that is the greatest love that could ever have been shown to mankind.  Our only job is to accept Christ into our lives with God and the Holy Spirit, to follow His teachings and His path to a better life.

Because of this, it is hard for me to understand why we have trouble letting the Father love us.  I don’t know of any one thing that could prove His love for us any more than what Jesus did through His death and resurrection.

Jesus wants all of us to let the Father love us, and if we do great and mighty things will happen in our lives.  Turn your life over to our Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, and be amazed at what a wonderful life you will have.

So this Easter start letting the Father love you, and through the year take notes on what has happened in your life.  Reflect on the good and try not to reflect on bad things for God has a plan for you and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NASB)

11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 

Then think about what a wonderful Gift that was given to us from our Father in Heaven, JESUS, who came to save the world through love and not judgment.

Time to Pray

Never has there been a time to pray as there is now.  Wars rumors of wars, weather changes, relationships that need to be mended, families that need to know God, and all of us as Christians to be doing our part reconciling differences and be a model to the world, not a judge.

It’s very easy to judge one another, but let's turn that around and tell people what a blessing they are to us.  It all comes down to praying for each other, and what needs changing in each other is God’s job to show them not ours.

A person who was dear to our family said to us, “Remember we catch them and God cleans them.”  (relating to leading a person to salvation and then giving them over to Jesus to take care of the sins in their life).

By no means do I want to be a judge, because you will be judged the same as you have judged. 

Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJV)

“Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First, remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

Right now our main prayer is for people to know God’s love and show them through our actions.  What would it hurt for us to say to people God wants you to let Him love you.  Instead of telling them about their sins.

God is not a mean God and wants the best for every one of His children.  He has prepared an awesome place for us in Heaven and beyond.  He has given us every tool and gift we need to live our lives.

He sent His only begotten Son to be our atonement (stand in the gap) so God could look upon us because He cannot look at sin.  Then when Jesus was resurrected He sent us the Holy Spirit our comforter, who gives us power to minister. 

So now He has given us salvation through Jesus Christ, and power to minister by the Holy Spirit,  and His wonderful love to guide us.  Don’t you think that it is time for us to do the work that God wants us to do?

Where do we start to do His work, on our knees praying for guidance, for our families, for the World, our country, and anything else God wants us to pray for.  He will lead you and He will show you how to pray.

Then when you are out and about doing your everyday things, remember to show God’s love.  Help someone with their groceries, say a kind word to someone who looks like they are having a rough day.  You want to know what will fulfill your life, being kind to one another and leading people to Jesus.

Matthew 28:18-20 (NKJV)

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.