Alleluia! Christ is risen!  He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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Christ is risen from the dead! Alleluia!  This is the shout of victory for the Christian Church after the forty days of Lent have ended.

Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried.    Many had hoped that he would restore the kingdom of their fathers.  Hopes were dashed,   His disciples went into hiding fearing for their lives.  He confessed that He was the Christ - the Son of God, and it was for this reason that he was condemned to death, 

But those who put Jesus to death did not know what they were doing. For by his death he atoned for the sins of all mankind.  This means that sins are forgiven - all sins - the smallest secret sins known only to the individual to the most glaring in the eyes of the public.  Here, God and sinners are reconciled. 

Death and the grave could not hold him in the ground because He is  the Anointed One of God who was promised from of old to redeem the world from the power of sin, death, and the devil. On the Third Day He rose from the dead, just as he said, By his rising he has destroyed death and the grave for the salvation of the world.

Here we see the depth of God's love for his creation that he sent his only Son into the world to be our Savior.  Jesus lives, never more to die! Death has been swallowed up in victory! And we are blessed to believed. the Good News.  Hallelujah! What a Savior!

St. Matthew's Charter

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