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Jesus is Alive!

[The Pastor's Heart]
04/02/2010
By Admin, Admin

Dear Freedom Family and Friends,

We're standing on the threshold of Good Friday and excited about Resurrection Sunday this weekend! Jesus is alive! Hallelujah!

We've heard it so many times before, but I want to reiterate it, friends- that God really loves us. He gave His Son, Jesus Christ to die on

that cross to pay the price for our sins and He raised Him from the dead to make Him Lord of our lives and all who believe and trust in Him.

I remember as a new Christian how excited I was to relive the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.

To think that He did this all for me. Just knowing that made me want to love Him more, serve Him more and trust Him more. I don't know

of anyone else who would die for me like He did. Especially when I was His enemy because of my sin. Oh, thank God for His grace!

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:8

Did you catch that? What a beautiful Saviour! What a great loving God! I know He loves us. He demonstrated it by giving His Son to die for us,

while we were sinners! Well, someone may say, "But of course! That's the basic message of the gospel. Tell me something new preacher."

I don't think we in the Body of Christ have got it yet. Just think about this with me.

If God could give His only Son to die for me while I was His enemy, a sinner...

what does God have planned for me now that I'm His child, a saint???

Since I became a father with my daughter Zoe, all I can think about is giving her the best of everything in life! I'm willing to work hard,

sacrifice, and do whatever it takes to ensure that my daughter's present and future is great and secure. And I'm only a man. Just imagine

what God the Father thinks about His children and the plans He has for them!

"For I know the thoughts (plans) that I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of good and not of evil.

To give you a hope and a future."- Jeremiah 29:11

If God's thoughts toward me are even a tiny bit like the good thoughts I think toward my own daughter, I am in very good hands.

My life and future is secure in Christ. I feel like shouting just thinking about it! Hallelujah! Glory to God forevermore!

And that's why we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ annually! We are celebrating a demonstration of the love of God!

The world can never say that God doesn't love them. He already demonstrated that love through the death and resurrection of Christ.

No matter what happens in this world, it still doesn't change the facts: Jesus died on a rugged cross to save us. And He rose again to give

us a better life. An eternal one. Amen.

Running with Vision,
Pastor Hoa, Leslie, & Zoe Tong

Freedom Worship Center
Live. Love. Lead In Christ.

www.freedomwc.org
408.297.8508

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