Two days ago, on Good Friday, we asked ourselves the central question: What does it mean when we say that Jesus died for us on the cross? We talked about how Jesus took God’s justice fully onto himself because he was the only one who could, and through his blood shed for us, we can be one with the Father in the same way Jesus is one with the Father, through faith in the same Jesus Christ. Today let’s move on to part two of this same central question.
When Jesus died the world became a different place. The first sign of this totally different world is what we are celebrating today. In this new world, Jesus was raised from the dead. Nothing short of a revolution had begun. It wasn’t just a surprising and happy ending to what we thought was a tragedy. It was the beginning of a new sort of life, a new way of living. This beginning meant that what we thought was the darkest, most inevitable power in the world, death, had been defeated.