{"id":1842,"date":"2022-04-17T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2022-04-17T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:40:09","slug":"easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/easter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Centrality of Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1842\" class=\"elementor elementor-1842\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cdd4e87 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cdd4e87\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c8672f7\" data-id=\"6c8672f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46c2b7dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46c2b7dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The apostle Paul said, \u201cMay I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (Galatians 6:4). Today we celebrate that Christ did indeed overcome death on the cross, enabling and guaranteeing the resurrection of all the saints (1 Corinthians 15:20).<\/p><p>The late bishop J.C. Ryle explains that Christ\u2019s atonement for sinners on the cross is the central truth in the entire Bible,<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThis is the truth we begin with when we open Genesis. The seed of the woman bruising the serpent\u2019s head is nothing but a prophecy of Christ crucified. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>This is the truth that shines out, though veiled, all through the law of Moses and the history of the Jews. The daily sacrifice, the Passover lamb, the continual shedding of blood in the tabernacle and temple \u2013 all were emblems of Christ crucified. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>This is the truth that we see honored in the vision of heaven before we close the book of Revelation. In the midst of the throne and of the four animals, we are told, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain (Revelation 5:6). Even in the midst of heavenly glory we get a view of Christ crucified. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book. It is like the Egyptian hieroglyphics without the key that interprets their meaning \u2013 curious and wonderful but of no real use.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>Join us in celebrating the centrality of Easter Sunday: \u201cFor as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive\u201d (1 Corinthians 15:22).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apostle Paul said, \u201cMay I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d (Galatians 6:4). Today we celebrate that Christ did indeed overcome death on the cross, enabling and guaranteeing the resurrection of all the saints (1 Corinthians 15:20). The late bishop J.C. Ryle explains that Christ\u2019s atonement for sinners on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theology"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tomb-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/tomb-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}