Acts 2:22-28\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0\u201cFellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth\u00a0was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs,\u00a0which God did among you through Him,\u00a0as you yourselves know.\u00a023\u00a0This man was handed over to you by God\u2019s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men,\u00a0put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.\u00a024\u00a0But God raised Him from the dead,\u00a0freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.25\u00a0David said about Him: \u201c\u2018I saw the Lord always before me.\u00a0 Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.\u00a0 26\u00a0Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, 27\u00a0because You will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, You will not let your holy one see decay. 28\u00a0You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cBut God raised him from the dead,\u00a0freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Peter here states that the Father raised Jesus from the dead and also he wrote the same in\u00a0Acts 2:32<\/b>.\u00a0 Paul confirms that Jesus was raised by the Father (2 Corinthians 13:4, Romans 6:4<\/b>).\u00a0 Yet we also know that scripture clearly states that Jesus was resurrected by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11, 2 Corinthians, Romans 1:4, Romans 8:11<\/b>).\u00a0 Jesus clearly states that He will raise resurrect Himself (John 2:19, John 10:18<\/b>).\u00a0 Does the Word contradict itself in stating that it was the Father, that it was the Son, and that it was the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from dead?\u00a0 Well the answer is uncomplicated.\u00a0 Who resurrected Jesus from the dead?\u00a0 It was God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Yes, God is three, but God is one.\u00a0 They are all equally God and they are perpetually and eternally in utter agreement.\u00a0 They, in unison, in perfect united will, raised Jesus from the grave.\u00a0 The entire plan of salvation was agreed upon by the Trinity.\u00a0 All that Jesus did was by the full will of the Triune God.\u00a0 They are one.\u00a0 God is one (Deuteronomy 6:4, 1 Corinthians 8:6, Acts 5:3-4<\/b>). So indeed the Father raised Jesus from the dead, and the Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead, and Jesus who is Lord of all, raised Himself from the dead.<\/p>\n
Jesus allowed mankind to put His body to death, but that is all.\u00a0 We are, all of us, eternal spirits that had a beginning by the creative will of God.\u00a0 Jesus is the Son of God, fully God and all our spirits are alive only because of He is God, is one with God, and He is the source of life.\u00a0 The source of all life is Spirit as God is Spirit.\u00a0 No created being can take life from the giver and source of life.\u00a0 We must remember that the act in Eden killed body and spirit (separation from God).\u00a0 The salvation of mankind is first spiritual. Our natural bodies, even after receiving salvation through Jesus, are not eternally redeemed.\u00a0 All of our natural bodies will die and when we die here we are born into celestial bodies that will live forever (1 Corinthians 15:40-53<\/b>).\u00a0 For the first time ever, then we shall see each other as God designed us individually to be.\u00a0 Our purified spirit will receive a celestial and eternal body.\u00a0 Jesus allowed mankind to put His body to death, but He would not allow His spirit to remain in Hades.\u00a0 Remember, He holds the keys to death.\u00a0 Yet the most important fact is that Jesus is God.\u00a0 God cannot be killed by anyone or anything.\u00a0V24<\/b>\u00a0states that\u00a0it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0 Jesus stated in\u00a0Revelation 1:18\u00a0<\/b>that He holds the keys to death.\u00a0 How can one with the keys be held by the captor. God is eternal, the essence of Jesus, that He is God, cannot be killed.\u00a0 He allowed His flesh to be killed, He allowed His Spirit to descend, but God is greater than death, He is bigger than death, death cannot contain Him.\u00a0 Family, death is another creation of God in the grand scheme of His foreordained plan.\u00a0 It is part of the mechanism of the eternal life that God has given us.\u00a0 We see the evidence of what Jesus did even in those who are rescued by Him.\u00a0 As our bodies die, so Jesus allowed His earthly body to die to pay for the sin of mankind.\u00a0 However the essence of whom we are, our spirit, lives forever.\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus is God and so the essence of Him is Spirit (John 4:24<\/b>). \u00a0Lest we doubt that fact, let us consider that when we are born again our Spirits are instantly reunited with God.\u00a0 The curse is immediately broken in the Spirit and through Christ our spirits remain eternally clean.\u00a0 Christ died once for all of us and for all our sins (Romans 6:10, 1 Peter 3:18<\/b>). \u00a0However it is not the flesh that is in immediate unison with God.\u00a0 The flesh remains rebellious (Romans 7:14-25<\/b>) and is slowly and partially controlled by our submitted spirit.\u00a0 Our flesh must die (Romans 8:12-13<\/b>).\u00a0 So Jesus came to bring our essence, our spirit, with Him to heaven and our bodies remain with this corrupted world.\u00a0 Jesus took on flesh to pay the price of our sins.\u00a0 His Spirit could not remain in death.\u00a0 God cannot be killed. God is one and that is an eternal truth. Jesus could not be contained by any part of creation.\u00a0 (Colossians 1:15-23<\/b>)<\/p>\n
Jesus is the Life and the Light (John 14:6, John 1;1,4,14, John 6:63, John 3:19, 8:12, 9:5<\/b>).\u00a0 We know that darkness must leave when light comes.\u00a0 Darkness is nothing but the absence of light.\u00a0 Darkness disappears when light appears.\u00a0 Life is stronger than death.\u00a0 The life that Jesus brings is stronger than the death that was brought by sin.\u00a0 Death is swallowed up by the victory, the life that is through Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:54).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>We were dead in the death brought by sin, but we are alive through the Life brought by Jesus.\u00a0 The creator knows how to, and has the power to, revive the dead.\u00a0 Life is stronger than death.\u00a0 Death was never meant for us and by the power of God, those who love and obey Jesus break free from the power of it.\u00a0 Since Jesus is the creator and sustainer of life, death could not overcome life.\u00a0 The only reason that He experienced death was because of His great love of us.\u00a0 Life beats death.\u00a0 The victory over death is for all who humble themselves before Jesus and submit their lives to Him as their Savior and as their Lord.<\/p>\n
Jesus trumped death.\u00a0 It was impossible for death to hold Jesus.\u00a0 Life trumps death.\u00a0 Life is for all who will come to God through Jesus.\u00a0 It is the only way (John 14:6, Acts 4:12<\/b>).\u00a0 It is God\u2019s way.\u00a0 Let us all grasp life rather than hold onto death (Death is what all men dwell in [John 3:18<\/b>]) unless born from above through Jesus.\u00a0 Let us hold onto Jesus who first loved us.\u00a0 Praise God!\u00a0 Jesus is alive and He evermore will be! And through and by Him so we will evermore have eternal life to live with Him! \u00a0Praise God!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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