This Sunday’s sermon is about Easter. Not chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, or colored eggs. Not God’s great gift of Salvation and eternal life after death, either. This sermon is about the symbolism of God’s incarnation as Christ. This sermon is about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus...
The life of Jesus, God as a man. Jesus is God, and he is human. That is the basic faith of Christianity. Jesus is the divine being humbling itself to partake of its own creation as an incarnation. Jesus is God in the flesh he made. That is a sign. God in his creation. God in the flesh he created. God experienced humanity and creation through our eyes. He saw things as we see them, plus his divine view. He knew life as he and we know it to be. We are not so different anymore. God has humanity. God knows what it is like to be human...
The death of Jesus. On a cross. After being lashed and crowned with thorns. After being tried and convicted. Jesus was an executed condemned man. He died convicted of heresy and troublemaking. He was found a blasphemer by the Jews, and trouble as far as the Jews presented the Romans through Pilot. He was not welcome to continue his ministry. He was not welcome to continue healing and teaching. Jesus was not welcome. Like at his birth, there was no room found for him...
The resurrection. Life from the tomb. Life beyond the grave. Life after death. To Christians, Jesus is the firstborn from the dead. He is the pattern of things to come for you and me. Jesus was fully human. He was also fully divine, and his divinity welcomes us. His divinity welcomes us to Salvation and eternal life. He says come; will you listen? Will you take His gift?
If you cannot believe it is all an accident that we came to be intelligent life, then God’s creation by visualization makes sense. His infinite mind simply willed the universe into existence and guided it to life on Earth. He is. We are. He came into his creation and invites us still to join him in eternal life...
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