It's the day after Easter Sunday -- so what does it mean to live in light of the resurrection of Jesus Christ? One thing it surely means is living out our allegiance to his Lordship. For again and again in the New Testament we are taught that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is an affirmation and even an 'escalation' of his Lordship -- he is the one to whom all authority has been given, and he is to be given first place in everything (Matt.28:18ff.; Col.1:15-18; cp. Rom.14:9).
Indeed Paul makes an explicit connection between confessing Jesus as Lord and believing from the heart that God raised him from the dead (Rom.10:9). His resurrection signalled his universal authority, culminating in the time when he is the judge of every human being (Acts 17:31).
Easter Sunday means that Christians are to re-commit themselves to learning and living by everything Jesus commanded, and it means the church -- your church, my church -- should live deliberately according to the instructions and guidelines that Christ himself gave by his Spirit to the prophets and apostles he inspired. May God rescue us from Laodicean lukewarmness.
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