ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE FOR MONDAY, 10TH APRIL, 2023.
EASTER GALILEE
Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer
Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l
Topic: CHRIST’S LOVE MADE US HIS BRETHREN
MEMORIZE: “Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” Matthew 28:10.
SCRIPTURE READING:
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” John 15:13-15.
EXPOSITION:
For the proof of Christ's resurrection, we have the testimonies of the angel, and of Christ himself, concerning his resurrection. Jesus repeats the message of the angel to the women; "Go, tell my brethren, that they must prepare for a journey into Galilee, and there they shall see me." If there be any communion between our souls and Christ, it is he that appoints the meeting, and he will observe the appointment. Jerusalem had forfeited the honour of Christ's presence, it was a tumultuous city, therefore he adjourns the meeting to Galilee. Come, my beloved, let us go forth, Song 7:11.
But that which is especially observable here, is that, he calls his disciples his brethren. Go, tell my brethren, not only those of them that were akin to him, but all the rest, for they are all his brethren (Matthew 12:50), but he never called them so till after his resurrection, here and John 20:17. Being by the resurrection himself declared to be the Son of God with power, all the children of God were thereby declared to be his brethren – “Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”. Being the First-begotten from the dead, he is become the First-born among many brethren, even of all that are planted together in the likeness of his resurrection.
Christ did not now converse so constantly and familiarly with his disciples as he had done before his death; but, lest they should think him grown strange to them, he gives them this endearing title, Go to my brethren, that the scripture might be fulfilled, which, speaking of his entrance upon his exalted state, saith, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. They had shamefully deserted him in his sufferings; but, to show that he could forgive and forget, and to teach us to do so, he not only continues his purpose to meet them, but calls them brethren. Being all his brethren, they were brethren one to another, and must love as brethren. His owning them for his brethren put a great honour upon them, but withal Jesus gave them an example of humility in the midst of that honour.
Jesus died and resurrected. He bodily ascended to heaven and sitted at the right hand of the God the Father. Therefore, because Jesus resurrects, I fear no death. He that quickened Jesus Christ is able to quicken me too on the rapture day. He is the resurrection and the life. John 22:24,25.
PRAYER POINT: Lord, let your resurrection draw me closer to you in unbroken relationship[ with you in Jesus name.
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DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – 2 Kings 7-9.
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