Easter Eve Message from PT Pastor TR Cannon What a wonderful day this has been so far ..spending it with my granddaughter Cassie Laray Cannon, and all over the world people have started celebrating Jesus as the Son of God, King of Kings & Lord of Lords, alive forevermore! A risen Savior and lives with the hearts for many men, women, and children. But really, we do that every time we take the bread & drink the cup, at WNWYC and we not only proclaim that we believe Jesus died for us, but also that He is coming again. So we serve a risen Savior, & we look forward to that day when we shall stand with Him in a glorious heavenly home which He has prepared for all who have loved & served Him. The Apostle Paul said, I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day - & not only to me, but also to all who have love His appearing. You know, as much as I love life, I, too, long for the day when I shall see Him, & be with Him, & be with all those people of God who have gone on before. I want to meet once again some of those wonderful Christians who helped me as I came to know Jesus as my Savior & my Lord. I don’t look upon death with fear, but with anticipation. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not wanting to die, & I’m not planning on dying anytime soon. But yet, one of these days I will. At least my body will. And so will yours. But the wonderful thing is that I’m ready, because Jesus is my Savior & my Lord. But in preparing this sermon, as I remembered some of the people and events of the past, for some reason my thoughts went back to when Kahlie, my first granddaughter was around 2 & 1/2 years old. And Hannah was a little over a year old, they were the cutest little girls in the world!!! In fact, I feel confident in saying that they were the cutest & most loving little girls God ever placed on this earth. I can also remember thinking back then, Wouldn’t it be nice if time could stand still? How wonderful it would be if we could stay exactly as we are & always be happy & enjoy each other just as we do right now. But, of course, that didn’t happen. In fact, it would be an effort in futility even to wish it, because we can’t stop the inevitable. The chief priests & Pharisees found that out. After they had crucified Jesus they came to Pilate & said, We remember that while He was still alive that deceiver said, ’After 3 days I will rise again.’ So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come & steal the body & tell the people that He has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first. Take a guard, Pilate answered, Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how. So they went & made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone & posting the guard. I don’t know if you see the humor in that or not, but I think God must have. Can’t you just see all the hosts of heaven looking down, watching the priests & Pharisees issuing orders, & those little soldiers grunting & straining to roll the stone into place, putting the seal of the Roman Empire on it, & then standing guard to make sure that nothing happened? Ima leave you with this thought this evening...LOL...Can you imagine the God who took the sun & flung it into space being thwarted by a mere stone in front of a tomb? Can you imagine the God who created the power of the atom being stopped by a few Roman soldiers armed with swords & spears? Matthew goes on to say, There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven &, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone & sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, & his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook & became like dead men. What a scene! God spoke the word, & instantly an angel descends, the earth is shaken, the stone is rolled away, & the soldiers are paralyzed with fear. The stone was only rolled away so that those coming could see in - not for Jesus to get out. He was no longer in there anyway. You see, the chief priest & Pharisees were trying to stop the inevitable. They were trying to seal up the Son of God. But there was no way in the world they could succeed in doing that. And we smile at their futile efforts. Yes HE is alive and YES Heaven is Real, Ima go there one day by the grace of God. Happy Easter my FB friends and family...enjoy your time with your loved ones and remember we have no promise of tomorrow.>>>PT
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 23:03:27 +0000
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