Easter Sunday 2024
Cross of Rebellion
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
“One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: ‘Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!’”
Cross of Repentance
“the other criminal rebuked him. ‘Don’t you fear God,’ he said, ‘since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.’”
Luke
23:42 (NIV)
“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
Cross of Redemption
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; ‘by his wounds you have been healed.’”
2 Corinthians
5:21 (NIV)
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Matthew 28:5-7 (NIV)
“Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead…”