No Chance

"This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him." Acts 2:23-24

Death didn't have a chance! God was in charge. Jesus surrendered Himself to death for our sins according to God's will. He fully experienced the agony of death and the judgment for our sin. But death was unable to hold Him! He arose victorious over sin, death, and the grave. Now in Him, through faith, we share His indestructible life. Sin, death, and the grave have lost their hold on us. We may taste death but we will not abide in death for the One whom death could not hold will call us out into eternal life. Death still doesn't have a chance!

Father, I thank you that Jesus tasted death for my sake and conquered death that I might be forgiven and freed from death's claim on me. Help to live today without fear and in joy this life in Christ over which death has no hold.

I'm praying for you.
Pastor Mark