THE GREAT, WONDERFUL TRUTH OF EASTER IS THAT DEAD PEOPLE CAN COME TO LIFE.

This Sunday, true believers will celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His triumph over sin, death, and the grave.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is . . . the most determinative event of all time because by it, the destiny of every person is ultimately determined. It is the most impactful thing that ever happened in the history of this world. How you respond to the resurrection will determine whether you spend forever in heaven or hell.

People like to think they’re free. Oh, they love to think they’re free. That’s the fashion nowadays. Everybody is free to do his own thing, do whatever you want, do whatever feels good.

On the contrary, man is not free. You don’t do your own will. You are locked in spiritual death. You are utterly insensitive to the realities of God, to the divine realm. You are hypersensitive to the influences of the evil world system around you. You are engulfed in your own personal sin. 

Paul’s description of unrepentant man’s status is utterly hopeless; “Dead in your trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1) has only one interpretation.

Dead is dead.

But thankfully Paul does not leave it there.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. “(Ephesians 2:4-7)

The great, wonderful truth of Easter is that Dead people can come to life.”

This Sunday, many churches will be filled with unsaved people making one of their biannual trips to church.

It’s a day when many lost and dead men and women pretend to be spiritually alive.

This pretense of faith only serves to deepen their own self-deception. They need to be brought face to face with the resurrected Lord, and understand the depth of their depravity and their spiritual needs that only He can meet.

My prayer this Easter time that if you are still merely “playing church” that you will truly believe, exercise repentant faith, place your faith in the Savior, and confess Him as Lord. Gty