Easter: From Rags to Riches By Tim Badal

King Jesus came. He died your death. He took your sin and he was raised from the dead. And he wants to gift you this Easter with the gift of his riches and his glory for you to experience in this life and in the life to come. That's what makes Easter the greatest day of the year. It is the day that poor people can be rich in Christ. Will you make his riches yours today? I pray you will. [00:17:51] (30 seconds)  #RichInChrist

A sister of Jesus. You brought into the family of God. You're co heirs with Christ not only in this life but in the life to come. You gain the wealth of possessions. The bible tells us in Christ every spiritual blessing is ours. And one day we will inherit all that belongs to Jesus. We gain the wealth of power. A power that we could never conjure up on our own. The bible says through the resurrection of Christ from the dead, he has disarmed every power and every authority. And friends, what that means is we have everything we need to obey and follow Christ in this life. [00:13:06] (44 seconds)  #CoHeirsWithChrist

On the cross of Jesus Christ being ratified by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Jesus takes all of our position, possession, power, and peace and the lack of all of that and he puts it on himself on the cross of Calvary. And in due exchange, he says this, I wanna give you position. When you trust Jesus Christ as your savior, the bible says that God becomes your father. You become a child of his. You become a brother of Jesus. A sister of Jesus. [00:12:36] (32 seconds)  #NewPositionInChrist

Where Christ had power, we are weak. As he holds the cosmos together, we struggle, listen to me, to hold our own lives together. And where Jesus had peace, we have no peace at all. We're restless. Sin causes us to be anxious, striving and searching for something to satisfy. In every category, Jesus is over here. And in every category, we're over there. We can't be farther away in this Easter of extremes. [00:10:15] (37 seconds)  #EasterOfExtremes

We love these stories because they allow us to dream. We love these stories because it gives us hope that maybe we don't have to stay in the place of lack that sometimes we find ourselves in. That maybe through the goodness and grace of God and some opportunity, maybe, just maybe, we might be able to see something remarkable take place. Well, I want you to know this morning that because of the risen Jesus Christ, you and I can be a part of a rags to riches story. [00:02:42] (33 seconds)  #RagsToRichesHope

God came and he did all of this so that you who are poor might be rich in Christ, filled with the glory of the one who created you. So how do we receive it? Two things need to take place. Number one, have you once and for all admitted that you're poor? That you've stopped the lying. You've stopped the the the posturing. You've stopped trying to show the world and yourself that you've got it all figured out. [00:16:00] (32 seconds)  #AdmitYouArePoor

Will you acknowledge God? I agree with you. I am poor. I am spiritually bankrupt. And because of that, you and I will remain at extremes. And so I admit today, I am broke without you. And then once we acknowledge that we're poor, will we accept the riches of Jesus? Notice in that verse that all of this is done through the grace of God. The unmerited favor of our Lord Jesus Christ. You can't earn it. You can't be religious enough. You can't figure it out on your own. It is a gift that Jesus brought to the world for you to open this Easter. [00:16:32] (47 seconds)  #AcceptGraceToday

Easter is a season. It is a day filled with extremes. And here's how Paul says it. Paul says that there are two extremes in this verse. Notice, there's rich and there's poor. There's rich and there's poor. We could not create more of an extreme. Within riches and poverty, they sit at opposite ends of the spectrum. The difference between abundance and lack, between fullness and emptiness, between having everything and having nothing. [00:04:47] (36 seconds)  #RichAndPoorExtremes