Resurrection Sunday: The Victorious King

The resurrection OF THE KING is so central to our faith – without it Jesus is just another martyr and our faith is in vain, as it says in 1 Cor 15:14, And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

On Resurrection Sunday let’s have a look at the significance of this moment.

On this day our King conquered death

On this day our King defeated evil

On this day our King set us free from sin

On this day our King showed himself to be King of kings and Lord of lords.

Death couldn’t hold him; he triumphed over it in true victory!

Look the lyrics of our C3 SYD song, What other King:

What other King would take off His crown
What other King would give up His throne
What other King would hang on a cross, and lay down His life for love

What other King has risen from death
What other King has conquered the grave
What other King has rolled back the stone and walked from the tomb alive

What other King is mighty to save
What other King is worthy of praise
What other King is seated on high, in Heaven above in glory

What is the Significance of the resurrection?

Death couldn’t hold him: He is the King who could not be held by death – Acts 2:24. The wage of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and because he had no sin so could not be held by death.

Acts 2:24 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.

The ultimate victory: He is the King who defeated evil on the Cross 1 John 3:8. The battle that Christ won on the cross had both an individual impact for each of us personally but also it had a cosmological impact in the defeat of evil. Jesus Christ didn’t come to rule and reign just on this earth but to defeat the power of the devil and destroy his works and rule and reign in heaven and earth.

1 John 3:8 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.

He gave us eternal life: He is the King who through his death, resurrection and ascension sets us free from sin and death giving us Eternal Life – John 3:16 and Romans 6:22-23.

Romans 6:22-23 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

King of Kings: Through his death, resurrection and ascension, Christ is now ascended and ruling in heaven. But he won’t stay there, he is coming back in glory to reclaim the earth. Eph 1:20,21, Phil 2:8-10 and Revelation 19:11-16.