KING'S
FOUNDATIONS MINISTRIES
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WEEKLY DEVOTIONALS
CONSISTS OF LIFE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR DAILY LIVING
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THE EASTER MESSAGE
READ MATTHEW 28: 1-8
MY TOPIC FOR YOU ON THIS GLORIOUS EASTER MORNING IS SIMPLY; THE EASTER MESSAGE. I WILL SHARE WITH YOU WHAT EASTER IS ALL ABOUT. BUT FIRST OF ALL BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER INTO IT, LET ME REMIND YOU WHAT IT IS NOT ABOUT. IT IS NOT ABOUT BUNNYS AND EASTER EGGS, NOR DRESSING UP IN OUR NEW EASTER OUTFIT. ALTHOUGH THESE ARE SOME WAYS PEOPLE CELEBRATE IT, WHICH MAY SEEM HARMLESS IN THEMSELVES; WE SHOULD LOOK CLOSER TO THE ROOT AND ORIGINS AND CAUSES FOR SOME OF THE WAYS THEY CELEBRATE IT. AFTER DOING SOME RESEARCH ON THE EASTER BUNNY, I FOUND OUT HOW IT BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH EASTER. IT CAME ABOUT FROM A COMBINATION OF PRE-CHRISTIAN BELIEFS, AND GERMAN TRADITIONS BACK IN THE 1700s. GET THIS: THE RABBIT, A SYMBOL OF FERTILITY AND SPRINGTIME RENEWAL WAS LINKED TO THE goddess EOSTRE IN PRE-CHRISTIAN GERMAN CULTURE ACCORDING TO THE BBC (BRITISH BROADCASTING COMPANY) IN THE UK, AND THIS TRADITION WAS BROUGHT TO AMERICA BY GREMAN IMMAGRANTS IN THE 1700s. OVER TIME THE BUNNY BECAME A MOST RECOGNIZED SYMBOL FOR EASTER. IT WAS IN THE 19th CENTURY WHEN THE GREAT LOVE FOR CHOCKLATE AROSE, AND WAS ADDED TO THE LIST. JUST THIS WEEK I WAS MADE AWARE THAT THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF AMERICAN DOLLARS SPENT AROUND EASTER TIME IS SPENT ON CANDY. DO YOU THINK SOMEHOW A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE LOST SIGHT ON THE REAL MEANING OF EASTER? THEN THE QUESTION ARISES; WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN, AND WHAT IS THEIR PERCEPTION OF IT ALL? IN FUTURE YEARS, WILL THEY KNOW THE TRUTH OF WHAT THIS TCELEBRATION IS REALLY ALL ABOUT? WE WHO ARE MATURE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT EASTER IS ALL ABOUT, MUST PASS ON TO THE COMMING GENERATIONS IT’S TRUE MESSAGE. AFTER ALL; ITS NOT ENOUGH FOR US TO UNDERSTAND IT, AND NOT TO SHARE THE MESSAGE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN TO REDEEM MANKIND BACK TO HIMSELF, BUT THE RESSURRECTION IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN A CELEBRATION WITH NATURAL THINGS, IT IS ABOUT
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...OUR SPIRITUAL HEAVENLY FATHER WHO SENT HIS HOLY SON INTO A WORLD FILLED WITH SIN; IN ORDER TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM A LIFE OF RUIN THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY END IN ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. THE RESURRECTION IS ALSO ABOUT CORRECTING WHAT WAS SET ON A WRONG COURSE BACK IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS 3:1 WHERE IT LETS US KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN ADVERSARY WHO WANTS TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT MAN’S REDEMPTION. WHEN YOU READ GENESIS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSES 1-5, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR ENEMY IS NOT A SNAKE. THE SERPENT DID NOT ALWAYS CRAWL ON ITS BELLIE, BECAUSE CRAWLING ON ITS BELLY WAS THE JUDGEMENT GOD PRONOUNCED ON HIM AS PUNISHMENT FOR HIS SIN IN DECEIVING EVE (3:14) IT GIVES US THE IMPRESSION THAT PRIOR TO ITS JUDGEMENT, IT PROBABLY MOVED AROUND IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION. THE WORD SUBTILE IS USED IN VERSE 1 OF CHAPTER 3. THE OLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WORD MEANS: CUNNING, CRAFTY, OR SLY IN NATURE. THIS SPIRIT OF EVIL HAS BEEN WORKING THROUGH THE AGES OF TIME TO KEEP HUMANITY IN THE DARK ABOUT GOD'S ORIGINAL PURPOSE FOR THEM. CLOAKED IN DECEPTION, THIS ENEMY CONTINUES TO SEEK OPPORTUNITIES TO KEEP MEN DISCOURAGED THROUGH TREACHERY AND THEIVERY. DON’T BE DECIEVED ON WHAT EASTER IS ALL ABOUT, DON’T BE MIS-INFORMED CONCERNING THIS SEASON, AND DON’T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE LED AWAY WITH A FALSE KNOWLEDGE OF THE REAL REASON FOR IT ALL. IT IS ABOUT CORRECTING THE SOUL OF HUMANITY WHICH WAS THROWN OFF COURSE (GENESIS 3:1). IT IS ABOUT A SETTING ARIGHT OF THINGS, AND A RE-ALIGNING OF HUMANITY WITH HIS CREATOR. ALTHOUGH SOME MEN THROUGH THE AGES HAVE ATTEMPTED TO ADD TO, OR TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD MESSAGE OF SALVATION, THE MESSAGE REMAINS THE SAME. THE RESSURRECTION IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN JUST A CELEBRATION WITH NATURAL THINGS. IT IS ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL HEAVENLY FATHER WHO SENT HIS HOLY SON INTO A WORLD THAT WAS FILLED WITH SIN; IN ORDER TO SAVE HUMANITY FROM A LIFE OF RUIN THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY END IN ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD. THE TRUTH IS THE RESURRECTION IS ALSO ABOUT THE CORRECTING OF WHAT WAS SET ON A WRONG COURSE BACK IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS 3:1 WHERE IT LETS US KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN ADVERSARY WHO WANTS TO KEEP PEOPLE FREOM KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT MAN’S REDEMPTION. WHEN YOU READ GENESIS CHAPTER 3 AND VERSES 1-5, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR ENEMY IS NOT A SNAKE. THE SERPENT DID NOT ALWAYS CRAWL ON HIS BELLIE, BECAUSE CRAWLING ON HIS BELLY WAS THE JUDGEMENT GOD PRONOUNCED ON HIM AS PUNISHMENT FOR HIS DEDEPTION SIN OF DECEIVING EVE (3:14) IT GIVES US THE IMPRESSION THAT PRIOR TO ITS JUDGEMENT, IT PROBABLY MOVED AROUND IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION. THE WORD SUBTILE IS USED IN VERSE 1 OF CHAPTER 3. THE OLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WORD MEANS: CUNNING, CRAFTY, OR SLY IN NATURE. THIS SPIRIT OF EVIL HAS BEEN WORKING THROUGH THE AGES OF TIME TO KEEP HUMANITY IN THE DARK ABOUT GOD'S ORIGINAL PURPOSE FOR THEM. CLOAKED IN DECEPTION, THIS ENEMY CONTINUES TO SEEK OPPORTUNITIES TO KEEP MEN DISCOURAGED THROUGH TREACHERY AND THEIVERY. DON’T BE DECIEVED ON WHAT EASTER IS ALL ABOUT, DON’T BE MIS-INFORMED CONCERNING THIS SEASON, AND DON’T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE LED AWAY WITH A FALSE KNOWLEDGE OF THE REAL REASON FOR IT ALL. IT IS ABOUT CORRECTING THE SOUL OF HUMANITY, WHICH WAS THROWN OFF COURSE (GENESIS 3:1), IT IS ABOUT A SETTING ARIGHT OF THINGS, AND A RE-ALIGNING OF HUMANITY WITH HIS CREATOR. ALTHOUGH SOME PEOPLE THROUGH THE AGES HAVE ATTEMPTED TO ADD TO, OR TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD MESSAGE OF SALVATION, THE MESSAGE REMAINS THE SAME.
WE WHO HAVE RECEIVED SO GREAT SALVATION; MUST NOT FAIL TO SHARE WITH THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IT'S MESSAGE. EASTER IS ALL ABOUT A CELEBRATION. IT IS ABOUT A SAVIOR WHO SO LOVED HUMANITY THAT HE WAS WILLING TO COME TO WHERE WE ARE, TO LIVE AMONG US, TEACHING US OF HIS WAYS; SO THAT WE WOULD COME TO KNOW HIM IN THE PARDEN OF OUR SINS, AND TO ALLOW HIM TO LIVE IN US, FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSFORMING OUR LIVES INTO HIS LIKENESS, SO THAT WE WOULD BE LIKE HIM IN THIS WORLD. DON’T BE AFRAID TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE EASTER MESSAGE. IT IS THE MOST PROFOUND STORY IN HISTORY THAT WILL NEVER PASS AWAY. THE EASTER MESSAGE IS WHAT RE-CONCECTS MANKIND TO HIS CREATOR.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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