Easter 2021 - This is Love
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April 4, 2021

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Easter Sunday | April 4, 2021

This is love! It is not that we loved God but that He loved us. For God sent His Son to pay for our sins with His own blood. —(1 John 4:10 NLV)

11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom, And strength and honor and glory and blessing!” —Rev 5:11-12

Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you. 16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; —Isaiah 45:15b-16a

Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. —1 Corinthians 13:8 AMP

He who does not love does not know God, for God

love. —I John 4:8

Because I live, you will

also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. —John 4:19b-20

The Empty Tomb

1) Easter it is the only holiday that celebrates what is not there – Jesus in the tomb.

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. —Romans 5:5

2) The empty tomb reminds us that Jesus will break out of you place on him. 


  • Love what stands in the way of connection and relationship.

    Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! —I John 3:1


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3) The stone was moved away not to let Jesus out, but to let you look in.  

Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the
tomb. 2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the
tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” 3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb.
4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths
lying there; yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths
lying there, 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. 8 Then the other
disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. —John 20:1-8

11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. 
12 And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 Then they said to her,
“Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid
Him.”14 Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to
her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell
me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” —John 20:11-16

Mary answered, thinking he was only the gardener, “Sir, if you have taken his body somewhere else, tell me, and I will go and …”
16 “Mary,” Jesus interrupted her.
Turning to face him, she said, “Rabboni!” (Aramaic for “My teacher!”) —John 20:15-16 (TPT)