Daily Bread - MAR/19/07

Acts 2:24 - Whom God raised up loosing the pains of death because it was not possible for its power to hold Him.

The power of death that seized Adam was not powerful enough to hold Jesus. In fact, through His death He abolished death (2 Timothy 1:10). As the power of death entered into the world by Adam even so by Jesus Christ came the resurrection from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:21; http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015:21;&version=9;). Jesus, through His death, stripped principalities and powers and proved their defeat (Colossians 2:15). He effectively destroyed the devil by destroying his reign of death and his power to dominate man with sin and death (Hebrews 2:14; Romans 5:14; 8:2).

The final outcome of the resurrection is that Jesus - the son of David and the Son of God who is the Alpha and Omega and forever the Eternal King - possesses the keys of hell and death (Revelation 1:18). Everyone who will have faith in His name He gives resurrection life and power to (Romans 6:5; 1 Corinthians 15:21). The power that is in the resurrection of Jesus is power over eternal death (Revelation 20:6).

Be blessed,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
abidingplace.org