The 3-Days of Easter!

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (NLT)
Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. ⁴ He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.

Jonah 1:17 (NLT) –The Lord had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days …

Matthew 12:40 (MSG) – (Jesus said) – “Like Jonah, three days … in the fish’s belly, the Son of Man will be gone three days … in a deep grave.”

Friday “Day 1” of the Easter Story is – Day!

Jesus fully paid our – bill!

Isaiah 53:3-5 (HCB)

He carried our sicknesses … we are healed by His wounds.

Matthew 9:12 (NLT)
Jesus said, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do.”

Jesus fully paid our – bill!

Isaiah 59:2 (GW) Your wrongs have separated you from your God …

2 Corinthians 5:21 (TLB)
For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins.

Isaiah 53:10 (TLB)
It was the Lord’s good plan to bruise him and fill him with grief … when his soul has been made an offering for sin (ours) … then he shall have a multitude of children, many heirs (us) — He shall live again, and God’s program shall prosper in his hands.

Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
Let us approach God’s throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Saturday “Day 2” of the Easter Story is – Day!

Some respond to silent Saturdays by – !

1 Corinthians 15:12 (NIV)

How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Some respond to silent Saturdays by – to discouragement!

Luke 24:21 (NLT)

We had hoped Jesus was the Messiah who had come to rescue Israel. This all happened three days ago.

“Silent Saturdays” are all about – !

James 1:3,4 (NLT; MSG)

When your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.

⁴ So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

Romans 5:4-6 (NLT)

Endurance develops strength of character, (no one is born with great endurance or character, both are developed) … For we know how dearly God loves us (delays aren’t punishments they’re divine invitations) … ⁶ When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time!

Sunday “Day 3” of the Easter Story is – Day!

Acts 2:24 (NIV)

God raised Jesus from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.

Romans 8:11 (MSG)

It stands to reason, doesn’t it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body (soul, mind, and spirit) will be as alive as Christ’s!

Romans 8:15 (MSG) — This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike “What’s next, Papa?”