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Easter Worship - 4/12/20 - Salvation Comes From the Lord: Jonah 2:2-9 - 9:00am Worship

The Festival of the Resurrection of Our Lord is the high point of the Church Year. We celebrate Christ’s victory over death that is ours by faith. The Paschal Candle, as a symbolic reminder of the risen Christ, helps us to celebrate the fact that the darkness of sin and death has been overcome by the resurrection. The Paschal candle will burn throughout the Easter season until Ascension

Colossians 3:1-4
Through baptism, God kills our sinful nature and raises a new man to life within us. The power of baptism comes from the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. So Christ’s Easter is really our Easter, too. Our spiritual resurrection creates a new reality for us who are bound for glory. Though eternal life is ours through baptism, its full glory remains hidden until the day of Christ. Until then, we live as resurrected heirs waiting for our inheritance. We set our hearts and minds on the glory that is waiting for us above.

Matthew 28:1-10
The women walked to the tomb, arms full of spices and hearts full of disappointment. They had come to a place of disappointment, broken promises, and fear. All they had hoped to do was anoint the body of a dead man. A dead Jesus does no good for anyone—not for the women, not for the disciples, not for us. But when the angel spoke, the tomb became a place of victory, a place of promises fulfilled, a place of joy. Do not be afraid! The angel spoke two amazing words, “was” and “is.” Yes, he was crucified, but no, he is not here in the grave. He is very much alive, just as he said. That fact fundamentally changes our relationship with God forever. You can see in it the words of Jesus to the women, “Go and tell my brothers.” Jesus had good reason to remind those men of their desertion. Jesus had good reason to remind them that they were nothing but servants. Instead, he took this moment to call them “my brothers” for the very first time. The living Son of God had made full payment for sin so that he could call us brothers. Mankind is redeemed; death is defeated; fear is conquered. And Christ looks upon us forgiven sinners and calls us his brothers. This is the day the Lord has made!


Jonah 2:2-9 - Sermon - Salvation Comes From the Lord
Jesus compared himself to only one Old Testament prophet: the reluctant, petulant, and chastised prophet Jonah. Why would he compare himself to Jonah? Because in his suffering and death, he took the place of sinful man who deserves nothing but judgment and death. Speaking to a wicked and rebellious generation, Jesus promised the sign of the prophet Jonah: as he was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man would be in the belly of the earth. Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the fish finishes with the key point of his book and of Scripture: “Salvation belongs to the LORD!” God would make salvation ours, but he would do it by making Jesus just like Jonah. God punished Jesus for our rebelliousness and sent Christ to our grave. In Jonah, we see a picture of both Jesus and us. Like Jonah, Jesus was judged and sent to his death by God the Father. Like Jonah, after three days, he emerged from death to life. Like Jonah, you and I deserve nothing but death. Yet it’s God’s will to kill us not physically, but baptismally (Romans 6), and that a new man should arise as from the dead to live before God.

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