Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Entering the Easter Life
It's Easter week. Lots of talk about Jesus dying on the cross and then his resurrection.
The good news: Jesus died for your sins and God raised him from the dead.
Do you believe this?
If you do, it is time to enter the Easter life. You are to die with Jesus/be crucified with him. Then you are raised into a new life with the assurance that because you shared in his death you will be raised from the dead just as he was.
That process is baptism.
You may have viewed baptism as some sort of "entry into church" action. Or a step in some kind of salvation ladder. But neither of those is how the Bible describes baptism.
Paul in Romans 6 is very explicit. Baptism is where you are crucified with Jesus. You are baptized into his death. You are buried with him by baptism into death. And then you have a new life. And the promise that since you share in that death you will be raised from the dead.
Easter is very much a time of dying, of burying the old, and being raised to the new life. It is a time of promise that we will share in a resurrection ourselves.
So if you believe the Easter message that Jesus died for our sins and God raised him from the dead, it is time to live that belief by dying and being buried by baptism into the death of Jesus. And then being raised out of baptism into a new life with the promise of your resurrection from the dead to live forever in heaven with God and Jesus.
This would be a great week for you to make the Jesus decision.
Be baptized and enter the Easter life.
