Matthew 26:32, 1 Cor 15:1-4, Matthew 27:62-64, Romans 8:34, 1, I John 2:2, Ephesians 2:5, John 3:16; 10:28, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 7:25

Men and brethren, I want to announce to you that My Jesus is Alive forevermore. Hear me, Jesus is the first person to book an appointment beyond grave and was able to honour that appointment. No other person has ever done that before or after. In his words ‘But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee’ Matthew 26:32. I want to give you a beautiful picture today that because he resurrected, everyone that dies in Christ shall resurrect. Of all the founders of religions; it is only Jesus who promises bodily resurrection. 1 Cor 15:1-4’ … how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures’ There were many people that saw Jesus and the evidences of his resurrection. There is no other great news than this; because He arose, you also will arise. 

In Matthew 27:62-64, the soldiers saw him because the government of the day tried to stop every evidence of his resurrection by positioning the soldiers but Heaven sent only one Angel and the Angel sat meaning the government of Rome was a powerless power. To sit means there was no threat to the Angel; to sit down is to relax; to sit down shows there is nothing to frighten you; to sit down shows you have no reason to panic. The soldiers fell under the anointing at the presences of the Angel. I want to declare that all those who oppose your resurrection shall fall under the anointing as the soldiers fell under the anointing when Jesus arose.

Right where you are, Jesus died because of your secret sins; he died for those who gossip and slanders; he died for those who live a life of immorality; this is why he cried out to the father ‘why have thou forsaken me’ he took your place and my place and because he did; we ought to love him with all our hearts; we ought to serve him with all our hearts. Why did Jesus come? He came that it may be well with you. My Jesus is Alive forevermore. In John 10:10, Satan’s mission statement is to kill and to steal and to destroy but Jesus mission statement is for us to have life. I want to announce that on the day the master will come, you will not be found on the grave.

Everyone here that has a need, God knows you have a need; and God is going to send his anointing to meet you where you are; and turn your struggle into fulfillment; he came to wipe away our tears, he came to turn your lamentation into laughter; everyone reading this devotion today, you are of utmost importance to God. Others may not like you; others may look down on you; others may mock you but we have somebody who celebrates you and was willing to put his own life on the line that you may become somebody. And today, I am insisting that you must become somebody.

Paul states the four reasons in one verse (Romans 8:34) – “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” This statement answers the question. Who is he that condemns the believer and in so doing gives four reasons for the believer’s security and the reasons to depend on God the Son!

Number One: Christ Has Died: No sin that a believer has or ever will commit can condemn the Christian who has sinned, because Christ has Himself borne the condemnation which was ours. Christ died for the Christians’ sins, thereby giving God the freedom to forgive righteously the inevitable sins of the believer. (Romans 8:1, I John 2:2.)

Number Two: Christ Is Risen: The believer has partaken of the resurrection life of the Son of God, becoming a part of the New Creation over which the resurrected Christ is the Head. To be in the resurrected Christ and to have the resurrected Christ within, includes a spiritual resurrection which will be completed in due time by the resurrection of the body or translation when Christ comes for His Church. Ephesians 2:5, 6 – God “hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” In Colossians 3:1-4 Paul admonishes the believer to “seek those things which are above…” for “your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.” Christ said on two occasions that those who received this “eternal life” “shall not perish” (John 3:16; 10:28).

Number Three: Christ Is Our Advocate: Though the Christian’s sins lead to damaging consequences, one being loss of communion with God, it is never even hinted at that the believer will or could be lost again. A simple confession brings immediate forgiveness (I John 1:3-9). Jesus as our Advocate is called Jesus Christ the Righteous for He presents the evidence of His own sacrifice for the sin confessed – that He bore that sin fully on the cross. The Father can thereby justly forgive. Christ is made unto the believer, righteousness. 2 Corinthians 5:21 – “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” Our Heavenly Father may discipline us but in no wise cast us out for Christ who bore our sins appears in heaven for us and it is His righteousness in which we are accepted before God.

Number Four: Christ Intercedes. Four major passages state this role of Christ which is security for all those that are His for whom He intercedes. John 17:1-26 exhibits Christ’s praying for those then in the world who were His and can be thought of as a pattern of how He now prays for us that are now in the world. Christ depends upon the Father to keep those who are saved from the evil one. Who can think of Christ’s prayer being unanswered? Romans 8:34. There is no condemnation for the child of God (among the others already mentioned is that the Saviour “maketh intercession for us.” Luke 22:31-35. Where Jesus reveals to us that though Satan has desired to have Simon Peter, Jesus had prayed for him, that his faith should not fail. Certainly Christ so prays for every believer. Peter’s life shows a break in communion with the Lord but no more.

Finally, Hebrews 7:25. “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that comes unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”

Because Christ lives forever, His ministry as our High Priest has no end. All that Christ does in interceding for us we would not be able to comprehend here and now, but it also includes His role as our Great Shepherd who guides our way from the pitfalls and snares of satan continually. Jesus saves and keeps us simply because His salvation is by its very nature eternal. My Jesus is Alive forevermore. Let me share these testimonies before the concluding prayer.