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Welcome to a more meaningful Easter season. Jesus the Christ’s Irreversible Fourfold Revolution: How to Make Easter More Meaningful for Yourself, Your Loved Ones, and Those You Influence. David Bryant, President, Proclaim HOPE! submit@ChristNow.com. Prayer (in unison).
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Jesus the Christ’s Irreversible Fourfold Revolution: How to Make Easter More Meaningful for Yourself, Your Loved Ones, and Those You Influence David Bryant, President, Proclaim HOPE! submit@ChristNow.com
Prayer (in unison) Father, no one has ever been for us, the way Jesus is for us – right now. Therefore, open our eyes. Let us see the unquenchable passion of your precious Son that caused him to give himself for us – by coming, by suffering, by rising, by reigning. In this Christ Cast, we want to begin by rejoicing with the saints of all the ages – who, like us, have been united with him, crucified with him, raised with him, and enthroned with him. By your Spirit, draw us closer to him during these minutes. As you do, awaken us more fully to all that Easter means for us as part of his fourfold revolution of love – inexpressible, incomprehensible, inexhaustible. Christ is all! AMEN!
Jesus the Christ’s Irreversible Fourfold Revolution
Christ’s revolution for us… by his Resurrection?
Christ’s revolution for us… by his Resurrection? Yes…but not by his Resurrection alone!
Christ’s revolution for us… by his Incarnation
Christ’s revolution for us… by his Crucifixion
Christ’s revolution for us… by his Resurrection
Christ’s revolution for us… by his Ascension
Christ’s revolution for us… by the INVASION of his Incarnation
Christ’s revolution for us… by the MISSION of his Crucifixion
Christ’s revolution for us… by the RE-CREATION of his Resurrection
Christ’s revolution for us… by the CORONATION of his Ascension
Romans 8:31-39 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one! God himself has given us right standing with himself.
Romans 8:31-39 (cont’d) Who then will condemn us? No one! Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us . . . He is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?
Romans 8:31-39 (cont’d) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us . . . I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow— not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.No power in the sky above or in the earth below— indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jesus the Christ’s Irreversible Fourfold Revolution
Christ’s Revolution by The Invasion of His Incarnation
Philippians 2 Christ Jesus had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death – and the worst kind of death at that – a crucifixion. (The Message)
The Invasion of His Incarnation Christ did not empty himself of anything. He simply emptied HIMSELF – an act of lavish, unparalleled selflessness.
The Invasion of His Incarnation All Christ has done FOR us could come about only by being UNITED TO us and COMING AMONG us, to be WITH us, as ONE OF us.
The Invasion of His Incarnation To his everlasting praise, this is how he remains, now and forever. This is who he is today.
The Invasion of His Incarnation It is a great mystery: Jesus’ unity with the Trinity and his unity with our humanity – both at the same time – then, now, forever.
The Invasion of His Incarnation He adds to himself our humanity without losing any of his deity.
The Invasion of His Incarnation All that makes God GOD – the fullness of his deity – has taken on bodily form in Jesus Christ.
The Invasion of His Incarnation All he taught and did and suffered – his victory over death itself – was done as a human being; it was done by his WHOLE person – wholly as God and wholly as man, at the same time. Even so, as the God-man he continues to reign and redeem in this very hour.
The Invasion of His Incarnation Think of it! At this very moment, Jesus is the most fully alive human being in the universe!
The Invasion of His Incarnation Even now he is living out our humanity in its highest capacity, in its deepest joys, and in its uttermost fulfillment.
The Invasion of His Incarnation The incarnation will forever mark the Lord Jesus Christ, as in love he continues to be one of us, among us, with us, for us – never to be otherwise, even when he returns in his glorious day of climactic victory.
The Invasion of His Incarnation Throughout endless ages, a man delivered from death – bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh – will occupy the praises of heaven…a man who is at the same time GOD, one with the Father and the Spirit.