Resurrection Sunday

Paulette Fraticelli

(Gen 3:21 KJV) Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

This week is commonly known as "Holy Week." During Holy Week we celebrate the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. With that in mind, I feel led to take a break to share a weeklong mini-series on Jesus, His death, and His resurrection. Thank you Jubilee Bible Collage that through the classes I took there I have learned so much on this subject.This upcoming Sunday children all over the United States will go on extensive searches through fields of grass, with their best clothes on, looking for colored eggs. They will call this "Easter."
I call this upcoming Sunday morning Resurrection Sunday. Sorry Guys I hate to be scrooge It has nothing to do with Peter Cotton tail, or bunnies, or eggs.

Resurrection Sunday has everything do with celebrating Jesus and how He conquered satan, hell and the grave on the cross! The songwriter said, "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!" Let's talk about blood this morning.

Christianity is a religion riddled with blood. Were it not for the blood of Jesus, I would not be writing this morning, nor would you be reading. Were it not for the blood of bullocks, goats, turtledoves and lambs, the journey of the Old Testament would have never reached the shores of the New. Sacrificial blood was used all throughout the Bible. Let's begin our journey in the beginning. Genesis 3 opens with the despicable serpent and his conniving acts. He tricks the woman into eating from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; disobeying the command of God. She then gives to her husband and he eats as well. As soon as he ate the eyes of both of them were opened, they realized they were naked, and they covered themselves with fig leaves. They were previously naked and not ashamed (2:25), in a perpetual state of communion with God.

However, their act of disobedience caused a breach in their relationship with God. Sin created a gulf between the Creator and His creation. Consequently, we were born the same way - separated from God. We will learn later that Jesus came that we might be Born-Again, that we might be reconnected with God's Spirit, and that we might be restored to the original condition of man in the garden. Going back to the garden we find a man and a woman who have broken covenant with God. Their act of disobedience introduced a dynamic-duo - Sin and Death - into the world. This duo would trouble mankind until the coming of Christ, who delivered us from both. After pronouncing judgment upon the serpent, the woman, and the man; God did something in our text that would be the pattern of deliverance for the rest of the Old Testament.

He killed an innocent animal for the act of a man. The blood of the animal became the price for the works of the man. The skin of the animal became the covering for the shame of the man. This was the one class at Jubilee that impacted me the most when Pastor Dick shared on this it was totally life transforming. This unidentified animal paid the price that was reserved for the man (Gen 2:17) and the man lived his life then, under the covering (clothes) of the animal. So what does this mean? It means that the Old Testament is but a foreshadow of the New. We will learn that Jesus came as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world. He would be the Lamb that would die for the man, so that the man could live for the Lamb. He put down His righteousness and clothes Himself in our sin, so that we could put down our sin and clothe ourselves in His Righteousness!

We can enter into this day knowing that we have been redeemed from sin and bought with a price. What was that price? It was the Blood of Jesus! This Sunday has nothing to do with rabbits and eggs, but everything to do with Jesus - His life, death, burial and Resurrection!Father, I know there is power in the Blood of Jesus. Your Son died that I might live. Jesus paid a price I could not pay, for a debt He did not owe. He redeemed me from both Sin and Death. I have been bought with a price and I walk as a redeemed soldier in Your Army. I am covered by