We Will Live (Easter Sunday) - Luke 24:1-12 Job 19:23-27 We live, because Jesus lives for and in us

Jesus died. His death signifies the rejection of God. The turning away from God's good intentions and desires for us to be our own gods. As a result our flesh and our lives are temporary. We have pain, we experience death. We see the pain in the lives of those before us, like Job, and in our own life. Jesus lives! God has raised Jesus from the dead, that even as we die, we would rise with him! More than that, our pain will be taken away! Even in the knowledge of the resurrection our pain is numbed and feel insignificant compared to the joy of Easter Sunday and the resurrection! We trust, that just as Job said, we will see our redeemer alive! When the pain and sin of this world has it's way with us and we die, we will be with Jesus, and as the world comes to an end, we will rise with Jesus on the last day!