Did you know… Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the full Moon that occurs on or just after the spring equinox? Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about calculating the date for Easter!
Let’s look at Luke’s recorded testimony from some eyewitnesses of the event. Luke 24:1-8 – “On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. They went in but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men stood by them in dazzling clothes. So the women were terrified and bowed down to the ground. "Why are you looking for the living among the dead?" asked the men. "He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, saying, 'The Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day'?" And they remembered His words.”
And that is what we do on Easter. We are reminded to remember the crescendo of the Gospel. The death, burial and…resurrection!
The apostle Paul reminds us of the magnitude of Jesus’ resurrection in 1 Cor. 15:17-19, 54-58: “And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable…
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"Now when this corruptible is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is your sting? O Death, where is your victory? Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
It’s time to remember.