Seventh Sunday of Easter

Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled." Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead Luke 24:44-46

Greetings in the name of Jesus!

Just like Jesus' first disciples, we often understand things better in hindsight. Take the event in Matthew 27:41-42, for instance. As Jesus hung on the cross, the Jewish rulers mocked him, saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. Now, what this means is that the Son of God did not come all the way down from his glory to help Himself but to open the kingdom of heaven to all believers and to be Helper of all those who struggle with sin. Jesus would not come down from the cross because the direction of salvation is upwards, and this is confirmed by His Ascension which turned His sacrifice into Ground Zero of our salvation.

Join as at Resurrection tomorrow for Bible study and Sunday school for 10am followed by the Divine Service with Holy Communion at 11am. Then again for the Divine Service at the Oxford Mission from 4:30pm. Please find the bulletin attached.

I look forward to seeing you.

Pastor Jaime