S U N D A Y   S N I P P E T S (tm) # 9 6               30 March '97

                        God Raised Him from the Dead
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This is the Sunday set aside by most churches to especially commemorate
the Resurrection of or Lord. In fact, _every_ Sunday is designated by God
to commemorate His Rising from the dead.   I have chosen as this week's
Snippet a passage from scripture that records one of the first sermons
ever in Christian history to declare the truth of the Risen and Reigning
Saviour.  The following is a portion of Paul's sermon in the Synagogue
at Antioch:


"Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever
among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew
him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every
sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they
Pilate that he should be slain.

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took
him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

But God raised him from the dead:

And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee
to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was
made unto the fathers,

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath
raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm,
Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to
return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure
mercies of David.

Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine
Holy One to see corruption.

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God,
fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this
man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which
ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."
                                                
                                                (Acts 13:26-39, kjv)

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I wish you and your family a very Happy Easter, and may the power of the 
Risen Christ shine in your hearts and lives.





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