Today's Journal
HE IS ALIVE
The basis of my faith rests on the work of the cross and the resurrection of Jesus. The Gospel of Luke says this:“Then some women from our group of his followers were at his tomb early this morning, and they came back with an amazing report. They said his body was missing, and they had seen angels who told them Jesus is alive! Some of our men ran out to see, and sure enough, his body was gone, just as the women had said.” (Luke 24:22-24 NLT) Earlier in the story the angels asked the women, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.” (24:5-7)
Jesus is alive. Still is. When we have the Lord’s Supper it should be with leavened bread. Bread that is alive. The wine should be with ferment. Wine that is alive. To have another kind seems we are participating in something dead. Dead bread and dead grape juice.
“You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures. Wasn’t it clearly predicted that the Messiah would have to suffer all these things before entering his glory?” Jesus