Easter Morn

4/12 – Easter Morn

Matthew 28 Matthew 28:1-10 (NIV)

1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.

3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

5 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples.

9 Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."

Do not be afraid those three words for us today do not be afraid ---go and tell my brother's too go to Galilee there you will see me we--- gather on Easter morn because we know that Christ is risen ---he's risen indeed--- hallelujah

Today we're gathering in a cemetery with the Morning Sun rising behind us just like the day when the women went to the tomb to anoint what they thought was their dead leader, and yet we know without a doubt that the tomb is empty, the tomb is empty and Christ has risen and we know without a doubt that it was the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, it was his burial which gives you and I life.

Which changes our eternal destiny from Hell to Heaven.

At age 95, Rabbi Hershel Schachter died in the Bronx, New York (2013). A name that doesn't mean much to most of you, but a few of you will remember an event 69 years ago that made Rabbi Hershel Schachter famous. Patton's third army had just liberated Buchenwald and one hour later Rabbi Schachter was the first Jewish chaplain to enter the concentration camp.

There he found what we now know by newsreels to be reality—hundreds of starving men piled in bunks from floor to ceiling. Though they had been freed, they remained in their barracks. After all, those who now came and claimed to be liberators were in uniform, just as their captors had been for years, and they suspected that new uniforms just meant new oppression and new abuse, and they would not leave the barracks. Until Rabbi Schachter spoke to them in their own language: "Shalom Aleichem, Yidden, Ihr zint frei!"—"Peace be upon you, Jews, you are free!"

The words of freedom from one that they knew to be their own created first a trickle and then a stream of men out of that one barracks, then the stream became a flood as they went from barrack, to barrack, to barrack with the words,

"You are free, you are free, you are free."

By the Blood / Life of Military wo/men the captives were FREE

You see it took the blood of the Allied soldiers to free the captives in the concentration camp. Allied soldiers were willing to give their life for the freedom of others Jesus Christ gave his life for our freedom He gave His life so that you and I could be free of a disease of sin.

The Apostle Paul says it like this in Galatians chapter 2 he says I have been crucified with Christ it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and the life I live in the body I live by faith in the God who loved me and gave himself for me we no longer live but we live in Jesus Christ.

We no longer live a life fearful of death, we do not need to be fearful friends of what's going on around us if we hold firm if we have such a firm foundation as Jesus Christ.

March 24th the FDA of America gave temporary approval for plasma donations. Now a lot of us have read about this I'm sure and and we know that it's not a situation that will save all and yet the FDA has found out that is what it's called as convalescent plasma 102 years ago it was used during the Spanish flu--- it's been somebody who has gone through a disease and their body has created antibodies plasma out of the blood and inject those into people who are sick.