Friday, July 25, 2014

Knowing God - He is Begotten From the Dead

Acts 13:33
 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Begotten From the Dead


Jesus rose from the dead.  In His resurrection we see God’s incredible power.  Every sin was placed on Jesus Christ when He died.  He was the atonement/sacrifice on our behalf.  He died.  He laid down His life for us willingly.  Jesus hadn’t sinned so He did not have to die.  He chose to die for sins He didn’t commit.  Because He was sinless in and of Himself, death could not hold Him.  Jesus is the first begotten from the dead.  Revelation 1:5 refers to Jesus as “…the first begotten of the dead…”  When the Son of God was prophesied about in Psalm 2 it was about His resurrection.  It is very important for us to know that Christ has risen.  We see in First Peter 1:3 that God has “begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…”  Because He was begotten from the dead, we are begotten from a hopeless life to a life with great anticipation of all He can do in the most sin-stained situations.  We must remember that Jesus is the resurrection and remember that no matter how dead we find something Christ is more powerful still. 

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