The Purpose of Easter

  Most of the times we think that being successful is just by having the good things of life. The truth still remains that until a man encounters Jesus the Christ such a life have not really started counting.
 Today we have Christians all over celebrate Easter, a commemoration of the dead,burial and resurrection of Jesus, but what comes to my heart at this sober period is  firstly why did he die,secondly is what has that death really created in my life.
 He died because I was hell bound,yes Jesus had to die to give us life that was lost,the life that we lost in that garden of Eden, the fellowship that was lost as a result of our sin in that garden, Jesus came to restore us into that fellowship.
 He gave his all that Man may get back and even more than what He lost. He gave us eternal life,the Zoe life. 
 Looking at the insults, ridicule and shame he suffered just to make us free,it is going to be a great act of ingratitude and wickedness to be living in sin,the scriptures said that He became sin that we may become the righteousness of God.
 It was impossible for man to attain that, but Jesus made us attain it by being that sacrificial lamb,slain on that cross for the remission of our sins.
 The impact this has created in our life or suffice to say for any man whom have come to believe in him is that we now have liberty and access into the very presence of God,we now have oneness with the Spirit of God, we now share the heritage of Christ, we have fellowship with the Godhead,we now have authority over powers and host of darkness because we are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and most importantly we are washed and cleansed from Sin with power over sin,because Jesus did not only died but He resurrected.
Glory!
This is what Easter is all about.

Hope this helps.

#DanOkonkwo
#TheopneustosImpactCentre

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Study the Word Today

Image
 One of the reasons why false teachers would continue to decieve many so-called believers is because most of these believers on Christ don't have time to study and make researches on the scriptures.  It is not enough to have a hard cover or Bible in print or on your phone,but studying it and understanding what it is saying.  Pathetically or rather unfortunately we even have preachers today who had little time to teach God's people the importance of studying God's word for themselves but would have a whole lot of time to demonstrate power,speak prophecies and perform signs and wonders.  Inasmuch as signs and wonders are good and have their place in the body of Christ, it in also going to be very unhealthy and imbalanced when the believer doesn't supplement it with a robust study and knowledge of God's word.  God makes it clear that His Word should have more primacy in our lives than anything else and if we cannot have time to study or research on God's word how d...
Read more

Everything is not about prayers

Image
 Happy new year once again, it's amazing how God has helped each and everyone of us to experience a new year as this,the year 2025.   At this time of the year many of us have high expectations and this is also a period where many churches and religious groups engage in fasting and prayers in preparation for the coming months of the year. While it is good and okay to carry out such religious observance, it is however not the an end in itself but a means to an end.  Most folks after fasting at this period when it gets to the last quarter of the year and it looks as if what they have prayed for in the early part of the year doesn't materialise they feel like God has disappointed them,whereas they have failed to look within how they had also contributed to the state of their lives.  Inasmuch as I advocate and support the issue of being prayerful,I also is of the opinion that prayers or being prayerful is not enough. You need to be serious and up and doing with your ...
Read more

A short biography of Dan Okonkwo

Image
Dan Okonkwo otherwise known as Rev'd Dan Okonkwo is an ordained minister of God with an apostolic teaching grace.  He is the Associate Global Lead Pastor of New Life Discipleship Ministry,he hails from Issele Mkpitime,idumu ogbu community in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. He is second of nine children, and the first of three boys,born on the 3rd of October 1994,in the city of Port Harcourt,Rivers State of Nigeria. Attended his primary education at Campus County Nursery and Primary School and then Mount Zion Group of School. His secondary education was at Holy Child Madonna College which he would later join Christ Kin Ideal School in his SS3 class. Tertiary education for him was at Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Enugu campus where he would study political science education and graduated with a second class upper result. An introvert by nature and a lover of books,at the age of seven has read the bible a great deal, though young at the time,knew that he has love for t...
Read more