When Peter made the great confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, it should have been a lesson for Peter and the others that the Son of the Living God, true God Himself, couldn't be over- come by death. Yet, the disciples had trouble understanding what happened when Jesus rose from the dead.

Perhaps what contributed to their confusion was that Jesus died in the first place. Men die, not God. If Jesus died, was he only a man? If only a man, how could He rise? Yet to save us from sin and death, God took the form of a servant to suffer and die as the punishment for our sin. God in our flesh died and was buried; God in our flesh rose to life.
Jesus' resurrection gives testimony to what He said about Himself and to what He promised He would do for us. It shows that God the Father accepted Jesus' sacrifice for the sin of the world. It shows that He is true God and true man who lives and reigns to all eternity. When the risen Jesus showed Thomas the wounds of His crucifixion in a body that was alive once more, Thomas could only say, "My Lord and my God," for so the resurrection proves Him to be.

May the good news that Jesus has risen, that He has risen indeed, go with you throughout the summer months and always. He died so our sins could be forgiven. He lives that all might live by Him.

In Christ,

Pastor Rick Milas