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  • April 13, 2025
  • By OFP Blog

THE SEVEN GREAT LESSONS OF EASTER (1)

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THE SEVEN GREAT LESSONS OF EASTER (1)

We in the Overcomers’ family are all welcome to this Easter celebration season. It is a time for us to remember what Jesus did for us on the cross of Calvary and to let us know that we can continue to enjoy the blessings of that great occasion as children of God throughout our lifetime on earth.

There are several lessons we need to learn from the episode of Easter and they speak of what the death of Jesus on the cross represents to us believers. What do we stand to gain from all that Jesus went through on the cross and their significance? These are established in the bible passages as they shall be discussed this week and Sunday.

  1. His death on the cross is the gateway to our redemption.

Primarily, this is the main and the centrality of the coming of Jesus to the earth. Before his birth, the angel said to Joseph the reason why Jesus will be born “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins Mathew 1:21. Although the purpose of His coming was revealed but the process of this salvation was not known. Nobody around knew the path to the cross would be bloody until what we today call the Holy Week. He went through it all and climaxed on the cross, by His shed blood, he paved the way for our redemption.

Revelation 5:9 “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Roman 3:23-25  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 

 

  1. His death gave us access to healing, health, and wholeness.

Why would Jesus go through great suffering and reproach with a most excruciating pain before he was finally put to death on the cross? These pains paved the way for our healing, health, and wholeness. Let us establish this from the prophecy that first went ahead of Him: Isaiah 53:3-5,

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. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 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.

Let us see how the prophecy was fulfilled by those that crucified Him: John 18:12,22

Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him, And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? John 19:2-3 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. John 19:23,29,34 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

  1. By his death on the cross, all our curses were reversed and canceled.

His death on the cross nullifies and reverses all curses upon us believers.  Galatians 3:13-14

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. Jesus died in the most terrible way, the most undignified way for a purpose, something must be reversed and that is the curse that has been placed on humanity. Whatever forms of the curse, the accursed death is the way of reversing it.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23  And if a man has sinned worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (FOR HE THAT IS HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. From this passage, it is so clear that his kind of death was carefully selected and not accidental. The judgment given to him was the worst for any human BUT all was for you and me so that we can be free.

  1. Through His death, we now have access to the blessings of Abraham.

God told Abraham that through his seed the world shall be blessed Genesis 12:3  And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. How would that be? That all families shall be blessed through a man? God already had a plan and the plan was executed through the death of Jesus Christ.  By His death on the cross, the blessings of Abraham became our portion as believers. Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:26-29For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.