On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen!”
Luke 24:1-6a
1 Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins… 3 All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature.
Ephesians 2:1,3
Sin is not an action but a condition.
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Isaiah 6:5
“Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”
Luke 22:42
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Jesus didn’t merely die for us, he died instead of us.
13 You were dead because of your sins…Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2:13,14
4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)
Ephesians 2:4,5
I am made alive by faith in Christ and His resurrection.
We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
Romans 3:22
For God so loved ME that he gave his one and only Son, that if I believe in Him I shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
A tremendous thing about Jesus is that beneath all our failures he sees the real man. He understands. He loves us in spite of what we do because he loves us, not for what we are, but what we have it in us to be. The forgiving love of Jesus is so great that he sees our real personality, not in our faithfulness, but in our loyalty, not in our defeat by sin, but in our seeking after goodness, even when we are defeated. —William Barclay, NT Theologian
25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26 Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die.”
John 11:25,26a
In his great mercy God has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
1 Peter 1:3b
“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you.”
Romans 8:11a