Sunday Validates Friday

Matt Chandler is a preacher at The Village Church in Dallas Texas (don't mess with Texas, BTW). He's a really outstanding preacher from what I've heard and his Easter sermon is good stuff.

Here's, quite possibly, the best nugget from it:

"The Resurrection validates what happened on Friday. How do we know? 'Cause God brought Him (Jesus) back from the dead. I mean, if it's not for the resurrection, we're going 'we THINK Jesus absorbed all the wrath of God. We'll know more after we die. Good luck!'

No, the Resurrection is that peace. You're so weighted down by your sins and behaviors and you've got these things that you can't get out of your life and you wallow in kind of this self-pity where you go 'oh, I can't figure it out, I can't get it right, I can't move on, I keep stumbling at this and I'll never be good enough and I can't ...' And you're wallowing in that trap which is JUST AS DEADLY AS THINKING YOU'RE GREAT!

But Christ has already paid the bill. The old has passed away, the new has come.