Pastor Bill's Newsletter
Resurrection Edition 2008
Copyright March 22, 2008
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Resurrection Sunday Devotional 2008

Notice that I am keeping my comments to a minimum.
I think most who know of Jesus Christ's crucifixion will understand how the
portions of scripture in this devotional relate to what Jesus suffered and of
His final victory over sin, death and the grave for us all!

I would be thrilled if members would like to post on which verses from the
writings of Moses and the prophets shared that they can correlate to Christ in
our Back Issues group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BackIssuesNewsletter/.
The writings of Moses and the prophet is how Jesus referred to the Old Testament
when speaking of prophecies of Himself; I shared that they can correlate to
Christ.
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post.

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Onto our Resurrection Sunday Devotional.



A few Prophecies of the Messiah's Crucifixion and Resurrection:
by Pastor Bill

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God said to the serpent, the Devil,
in Genesis of the serpent's tempting Adam and Eve
and they disobeyed God:

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head,
and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:15

In other words the bruising of the heal would be a serious attack from the
serpent against the Messiah (the sufferring on the Cross) but the seed of the
woman
(the Messiah, our Messiah and Saviour; Jesus Christ)
would do the greater damage to the serpent's head (the place of power and
authority).
Jesus did die on the Cross but as proof that it was for our sins, Jesus Christ
rose from the dead on the third Day as Jesus had predicted of Himself. In the
process Jesus defeated the serpent's power, in effect, crushing that serpent's
head, destroying Satan's authority. Only God can forgive sin, raise Himself
from the bonds of death,
and defeat Satan, that old serpent!
Praise God!


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Two more of many Scripture passages
that prophesy the Messiah's suffering and resurrection
are Psalm 22 and Isaiah chapter 53.


Psalm 22

1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not;
and in the night season, and am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not
confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:
let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb:
thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:
my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the lion's mouth:
for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation:
I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied:
they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:
and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.
29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down
to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
31 They shall come,
and shall declare his righteousness
unto a people that shall be born,
that he hath done this.



Isaiah Chapter 53

1 Who hath believed our report?
and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground:
he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment:
and who shall declare his generation?
for he was cut off out of the land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death;
because he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him;
he hath put him to grief:
when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,
he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul,
and shall be satisfied:
by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;
for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;
because he hath poured out his soul unto death:
and he was numbered with the transgressors;
and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.


Sincerely in Christ,
internet Pastor Bill

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Pastor Bill's Newsletter
Resurrection Edition 2008
Copyright March 22, 2008
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