Not about the Bunny

The following is written well... a good friend of mine wrote it for his bible study... I liked it, so I'm sharing it! I hope you enjoy!!

"I find it very sad and frustrating that we lose our focus on Christ and on to so many meaningless things. We see this on most Holidays, Christmas seems to be about giving and getting stuff and some fat guy trying to squeeze down our chimneys, instead of being about Jesus. Oh sure, we might take a moment and say “happy birthday Jesus” but then what?

This month many will have fun with eggs, bunnies, and candy, but do we stop and think about what it’s really about? The day that most call “Easter” is named after “Eastre” the goddess of fertility. (Don’t get me started on that). This 27th is not some goddess day, its Resurrection Sunday and we need to remember that. It’s all about Jesus and what He did on the Cross. Its sad most Christians don’t really understand the awesome display of love, obedience, power and horror that took place at Calvary…. Earthquakes, rocks breaking, veils ripping – Powerful!!

He took all sin, disease, guilt, rejection, and grief to the cross so we could be free from it!

But maybe that’s why many struggle so much with sin, because they don’t understand what Christ did and what happened because of it.

Do you understand that only because of what Jesus did, the blood covered our sick and disgusting dead selves and redeemed us, broke the power of sin and death, bringing us to salvation?

We use the word “saved” way too lightly, there are so many out there that say without thought “yeah, I’m saved”.

I would hope that you know what you are saved from, but let me ask you this; do you know what you are saved into??

Salvation means: deliverance from sin and from the penalties of sin; redemption.
It is through Christ’s blood that was poured out; we have redemption, forgiveness of sins. (Col. 1:14)

We have been saved into much more than what people may think. We were brought out of the power of darkness and into His Kingdom. (Col.1:13) We are now a part of His Kingdom, not the kingdom of darkness. It’s time we start acting like we are citizens of His Kingdom.

Do you know that a lot happened in the spiritual realm during Calvary? Because Adam and Eve sinned, they lost the authority and dominion God had given them and the devil took it and ran with it. Because of Calvary, Christ took back all authority in Heaven of on earth (Matt. 28:18) and He disarmed the evil principalities and powers and made a public display of them, triumphing over them. (Col. 2:15)

Because Christ took back the authority, we now have that authority and we can use it to tell the devil to get lost!

Because of the Cross, we have been set free from sin and death, just read Romans 6.
Romans 6:14 says that sin will not have dominion (ownership) over us, because we are under grace.

So why do we struggle with sin so much? Could it be because we have believed a lie that we should expect to sin a lot? Could it be because we haven’t understood Calvary and the power of the blood? Do we dare say the blood wasn’t good enough?? See here’s the thing. Yes we do have a sinful nature, but we need to crucify the flesh and walk in the Spirit. You may say, “Well, it’s just not that easy”. I say if sin does not own me anymore, why should I let my flesh run wild? I’m not doing in it in my power or my might, but in God’s. We are temples of the Holy Ghost! (1 Cor. 6:19) We have the living God inside of us, the whole Godhead! (Col. 2:10) We are under grace! We think of grace as mercy. Grace is a divine influence upon the heart. It is the thing that makes it possible for us to be Christ-like. According to James 4:6 (Amplified):
“But He gives us more and more grace (power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this evil tendency and all others fully)…”

Isn’t that too cool!? We have the power of the Holy Ghost to meet evil desires.

Because of Calvary, we can walk in freedom and power, and enjoy the love, joy, and true soul peace, without getting beat up all the time. Praise God!! There is freedom and healing power in the blood! There is so much more to say about Calvary, I encourage you to study for yourself and find out all the amazing aspects of Calvary this Resurrection Sunday.

Remember, it’s not about the bunny, it’s about Christ!!"