He is Risen
April 12, 2009 AM
Dave Marttunen
“It seems odd to have to say so, but too much religion is a bad thing.” This is from Eugene Petersen’s introduction to the book of Hebrews in the Message translation. He’s right. We can’t get too much of God. However, religion is our efforts to clean ourselves up so that God will like us. The message of Easter is that God does for us what we can never do for ourselves. The message of the resurrection, “He is risen”, is not a call to be better. It’s a call to be free. We don’t open the prison bars through our efforts, we simply walk through the door Jesus opens for us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus is not a challenge to get better, work harder or perform acceptably. Fixing our eyes on Jesus is the call to see that what he has done works. It is the message of Hope. What we cannot possibly do, is done. He is Risen!
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Dave Marttunen
“It seems odd to have to say so, but too much religion is a bad thing.” This is from Eugene Petersen’s introduction to the book of Hebrews in the Message translation. He’s right. We can’t get too much of God. However, religion is our efforts to clean ourselves up so that God will like us. The message of Easter is that God does for us what we can never do for ourselves. The message of the resurrection, “He is risen”, is not a call to be better. It’s a call to be free. We don’t open the prison bars through our efforts, we simply walk through the door Jesus opens for us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus is not a challenge to get better, work harder or perform acceptably. Fixing our eyes on Jesus is the call to see that what he has done works. It is the message of Hope. What we cannot possibly do, is done. He is Risen!
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