The Triumph: Celebrating Christ's Victory On Easter

This grace, this forgiveness is only possible because of the amazing triumph of Christ through His resurrection. Paul declared in Romans 4:25: “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification”. What an amazing thing to know that we are justified because Christ was raised to life! His triumph over death allows for our forgiveness.

There is one more thing I’d like us to share this evening. A third promise we have because of Christ’s resurrection.

#3- Christ’s triumph means we have power.

Christ’s resurrection means that we not have forgiveness for our past sins, but it means that we have power in our day to day lives. Because we serve a risen Savior, we are empowered to live day by day for Him.

The apostle Paul in Ephesians 1 shares that believers are entitled to “what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.”

God has given us the exceeding greatness of His power because of the triumph of Christ on the cross. Because of this power, we are equipped to live our lives in obedience to Him. We have the power to be free to live for Him.

Galatians 2:20 declares that “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me”.

Because of Christ’s triumph through His resurrection, we have the power to be new creatures; not us living, but Christ in us. As it says in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

On our own, we would not have the ability to live the kind of life that pleases God, but because of the power bestowed on us, we have been given the power to walk daily in obedience to God’s word. He have been given the power to be more than conquerors through Jesus Christ. This is the power given to us because of the triumph of Jesus Christ through His resurrection.

This evening, we celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death through His death and resurrection. We celebrate that because of his triumph we have hope. Because of His triumph we have forgiveness and because of His triumph, we have power.

As we go about our week, let us cling to the promise of the Word in Romans 8, starting in verse 37: Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.