EASTER SUNDAY SERMON

By Bro . Peters Owolabi

Topic: Victory in Jesus
Sermon Text: I Corinthians 15:35-57

I welcome you all to today’s service which happens to be Youth Sunday. Due to the pandemic ravaging our world, I believe our General Overseer has taken a step in the right direction to ensuring we are still awakened to spiritual activities. 

It is no doubt that a lot of spiritual souls will die during this inadvertent holiday from almost every spheres of life activities. 

But as true Christians, we must understand that these are merely signs of the end time hurriedly approaching. Please note – this is not the Rapture as some ignorant Christians have been rumoring about.

This is Easter and we shall be talking about Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

Without death there can be no resurrection.

We see people joking about death. But there comes a time when death is not a laughing matter. 

When death threatens someone you love, or when it threatens you... nobody laughs. That's because death can be a scary thing. In fact, Hebrews 2:15 tells us about people “... who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.”

A seed has got to die before it reawakens to a life of fruitfulness. For us to be completely ready to be part of the kingdom of heaven, we must leave behind our earthly cloak (which means we must die someday, sometime, somewhere) and put on the spiritual body. Our activities here on earth will now be the determining factor as to whether we will put on the spiritual body that leads to Eternal Life of Joyous Activities after death or Eternal Suffering after death.

You see, we were created in the image of God. We were never made to die. It's not normal, it's not fair.  It's not the way things should be.  

But things are like that now, we will all die... and unless we have the hope of resurrection death will continue to be terrifying and devastating.

True Christians should have strong believe in the death of Christ – that His death has taken away the

sting of death and the victory of the grave as it can be seen in I Corinthians 15:55.

 Moving forward on this, we can see in verse 56 that the sting of death is sin....

Therefore, Christians must be spiritually conscious at all times to run away from sin and understand

the need to abstain completely from sin to keep hope of eternity alive till Christ come for us all.

In conclusion, if Christ had not risen, there would have been no celebration. Let us therefore rejoice and celebrate the death and the rising of Christ in total humility and sobriety. Let us in our various homes celebrate Him as we also observe the #StayHome #StaySafe the government has instructed us.

This is but a phase and it shall pass soon. Happy Easter to Us All. God Bless!