Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
June 16, 2022: SOAP #4578: 1Kings 17-19; Colossians 2

SCRIPTURE: Colossians (NIV) 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having cancelled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross.  15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

OBSERVATION:  Here it is!  The triumph was on the cross.  That is where the battle was fought!  And that is where the victory was won!   In the eyes of man, when Jesus was taken off the cross, he was defeated.  But in the light of eternity, He was the VICTOR! 

Of course, we did not realize how great the victory was until the resurrection, even yet we do not grasp the fullness of that victory.  But we enjoy it, and we celebrate it.  When we partake of communion, we are “showing the Lord’s death until He comes.” (1Corinthians 11:26)   In the Bible we have the command to celebrate His death by taking communion.  But is there a command to celebrate His resurrection?

Yes, YEs, and YES!!  We are to live every day celebrating His resurrection!  The resurrected Jesus now lives inside every believer!  He is the honored Guest of our lives.

APPLICATION:  I celebrate His resurrection EVERY DAY!  The resurrected Jesus lives inside me.  His life is seen in me every day!  I live every day in living communion with the resurrected Jesus!  The way I talk, the way I act, walking in love and holiness, etc. are the ways I celebrate His resurrected life now living in me. 

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, continually remind me that the One who died on the cross for me, is now ALIVE in me.  Help me honor Him in all I say and do.  Amen

Pastor Leon
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