Happy Easter! Christ has risen for YOU!

Hey Everyone! I hope everyone is doing well! This past week has been amazing! We have walked through Holy Week from the time Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey through his time that led to the cross and today Easter CHRIST HAS RISEN FOR YOU AND FOR ME!
I want to first start off by talking about Palm Sunday! This was a day that people wanted to welcome Jesus into Jerusalem on a donkey saying palm branches saying "Hosanna" "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord" As Jesus sees people celebrating He cries...Jesus wept over the town because they did not fully understand what was going to happen to Jesus.

Well now we are into holy week and we reach a day called Maundy Thursday! Now this is a day that is also called "Mandate Thursday" This command to "meet" this is something that the early church would do every year on a Thursday that would mark a beginning of Easter of what God did for us. The story of God is ongoing WE are Gods story! There is a festival that people did and it was called "Passover" This all started with a guy named Moses. Moses was the one who started "The Passover. At this celebration the disciples took the Lords Supper. Now on this night Our Lord and Savior Jesus took bread and broke it and gave it to his disciples saying "Take and Eat for this is my body which is broken for you! Then Jesus took a cup and said..."Take this and drink this is my blood which is poured out for the forgiveness of sins"

The Lords Supper

Now we go to Friday...Good Friday, this is the day our Savior was handed over to be beaten and killed!
On this day He went to Pilate and He could not find a good enough reason for him to be killed So they took him to King Herod...well He thought he was just crazy so the guards took him back to Pilate and then Pilate decided to have either Barabbas released or Jesus released. The crowd shouted Barrabas, then pilate asked "what then shall I do with Jesus who is called christ? The crowd shouted CRUCIFY HIM...CRUCIFY HIM!! Pilate asked "why" but he got no where with the people they just kept on shouting CRUCIFY HIM! So then Pilate washed his hands in front of the crowd and said I am innocent of this mans blood...it is your responsibility then he had Jesus handed over to be crucified. Jesus was nailed and at about noon darkness came over the land until 3:00. Then Jesus called out in a loud voice" "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”  At that moment the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart, and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead. They left the cemetery after Jesus’ resurrection, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many people. That is what happened on Good Friday. Our Savior was killed BUT...Sunday is coming

Jesus carrying the cross!

Jesus on the cross

Now we are at Sunday and we can shout....CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD!! HE CONQUERED DEATH! Its the greatest day in History! Our sins our washed away and we can now live forever knowing that you are forever in our hearts and lives! I hope each and everyone of you reading this will realize that this verse speaks to you just as much as it did to me...For God so LOVED the world that He GAVE His one and ONLY son that whoever believes in Him shall NOT perish but have EVERLASTING LIFE! AMEN?

HE HAS RISEN

Blessings to everyone to end my blog I want to end with a song by a man named Carman He wrote a song called The Champion and it talks about how Jesus defeated Satan so Here it is..
The Champion Video
Blessings to all!
Happy Easter
Mighty Mariah