QUOTES OF THE WEEK

"To be unforgiving is to choose to stay trapped in a jail cell of bitterness serving time for someone else's crime!" -quoted by John Waters
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At 6:00 pm this evening, my mind in on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. If He spent 3 days and 3 nights in the grave as He claimed He would (Matthew 12:40 .. and Jesus Himself said, "are there not 12 hours in the day?" John 11:9, with another 12 at night), then as the Jewish 1st day of the week begins with their 12 hours of night, Jesus came out of that borrowed tomb!! Scripture tells us Jesus died on Nisan 13 at 3:00 pm when He dismissed His spirit. He was taken from the cross and prepared for and placed in the grave by 6:00 pm, the beginning of the Sabbath Passover on Nisan 14. The next day is also a Sabbath according to Leviticus 23, the Sabbath of Unleavened Bread. The year Jesus died was an unusual year as it is followed by a 3rd Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath on Saturday. Jesus came out of that tomb as the three Sabbaths ended (72 hours, as He promised, the only sign He gave Israel)!

As the women approached the tomb on the first hour of daylight on Sunday to prepare Jesus body, the tomb is already empty and the soldiers have long gone. While the KJV translators followed the Catholic tradition of a Friday crucifixion (Scripturally impossible), the Greek uses a plural noun for "Sabbath" in Matthew 28:1, "after the Sabbaths were past."

Amazing love, God's love for us that provides all with atonement and eternal life!!! - Pastor Dick Sumner
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So if we are going to get anything out of life, if our present existence is to have any meaning at all, it must be found now; that is his [Solomon's] argument. Do not waste your life, do not run after every titillating experience, every empty pleasure that life may fling at you. Do not try to lose yourself in a merry round of forgetfulness. Use life- that is his argument. Fill it to the full, discover it's purpose now,for whatever meaning life may have it must be found right now.
Thus we are not to seek after comfort, but significance. - Ray C. Stedman