Crissy Balboa
THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK (SUNDAY) COMES MARY MAGDALENE EARLY, WHEN IT WAS YET DARK, UNTO THE SEPULCHRE (PROBABLY ABOUT 5 0'CLOCK IN THE MORNING), AND SEES THE STONE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE SEPULCHRE (PROCLAIMS THAT WHICH SHE DID NOT EXPECT TO FIND).
----JOHN 20:1
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FROM JOHN'S OPENING LINE ("IN THE BEGINNING") WE GET THE SENSE THAT HE IS RECASTING THE CREATION NARRATIVE (JOHN 1:1). HIS THEMES OF NEW CREATION (WATER TO WINE, DEATH TO LIFE etc.) CONTINUE UNTIL WE ARRIVE WITH JESUS PRAYING IN A GARDEN----DUSTING OFF MEMORIES OF EDEN (19:41). FINALLY, AFTER JESUS HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED AND THE DISCIPLES HAVE SCATTERED AND ALL SEEMS LOST, WE HEAR JOHN'S PRONOUNCED REFRAIN: "ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. " JESUS WALKED OUT OF THE LAMB (20:1). GOD BEGAN HIS GENESIS WORK, MAKING HIS WORLD, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. NOW, AGAIN, JESUS COMMENCES A NEW CREATION (A SECOND CREATION), REMAKING HIS WORLD ON A NEW FIRST DAY.
DEATH HAS REALLY BROKEN LOOSE IN GOD'S WORLD. WE REALLY KNOW DEATH IN OUR MARRIAGES AND OUR HEARTS AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. AND JESUS IS RECREATING ALL OF IT, EVERY BIT, CRUSHING DEATH AND BRINGING LIFE. REALLY!
INTO EVERY DARK CORNER OF YOUR HEART, INTO LONELINESS AND FEAR AND SHAME, INTO DESPAIR AND GREED AND LUST, INTO RUIN AND HOPELESSNESS AND EVERYTHING THAT DEATH BREEDS, KNOW THIS: JESUS CRUSHED DARKNESS AND DEATH. SO RISE UP AND LIVE....
Have a good Evening, Afternoon, and Morning to all of you my dear good friends here on fb... God bless you all and lovelovelove....
----JOHN 20:1
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FROM JOHN'S OPENING LINE ("IN THE BEGINNING") WE GET THE SENSE THAT HE IS RECASTING THE CREATION NARRATIVE (JOHN 1:1). HIS THEMES OF NEW CREATION (WATER TO WINE, DEATH TO LIFE etc.) CONTINUE UNTIL WE ARRIVE WITH JESUS PRAYING IN A GARDEN----DUSTING OFF MEMORIES OF EDEN (19:41). FINALLY, AFTER JESUS HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED AND THE DISCIPLES HAVE SCATTERED AND ALL SEEMS LOST, WE HEAR JOHN'S PRONOUNCED REFRAIN: "ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. " JESUS WALKED OUT OF THE LAMB (20:1). GOD BEGAN HIS GENESIS WORK, MAKING HIS WORLD, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. NOW, AGAIN, JESUS COMMENCES A NEW CREATION (A SECOND CREATION), REMAKING HIS WORLD ON A NEW FIRST DAY.
DEATH HAS REALLY BROKEN LOOSE IN GOD'S WORLD. WE REALLY KNOW DEATH IN OUR MARRIAGES AND OUR HEARTS AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. AND JESUS IS RECREATING ALL OF IT, EVERY BIT, CRUSHING DEATH AND BRINGING LIFE. REALLY!
INTO EVERY DARK CORNER OF YOUR HEART, INTO LONELINESS AND FEAR AND SHAME, INTO DESPAIR AND GREED AND LUST, INTO RUIN AND HOPELESSNESS AND EVERYTHING THAT DEATH BREEDS, KNOW THIS: JESUS CRUSHED DARKNESS AND DEATH. SO RISE UP AND LIVE....
Have a good Evening, Afternoon, and Morning to all of you my dear good friends here on fb... God bless you all and lovelovelove....
PASTOR Crissy Balboa
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