Nowhere in Scripture did the Lord Jesus instruct His people to remember His resurrection, yet we joyfully do so, praising Him and rejoicing in Christ's defeat of death and hell for us!
Christ did request that we remember His death when He instituted the Lord's Supper. He explicitly stated that His body and His blood were about to be sacrificed for the remission of the sins of His people whom He loves.
Therefore, the first Lord's Supper was celebrated in sorrow and with the pall of death over it. The Lord Jesus was going to be put to death the very next day.
Christ acknowledged His people's grief over His dying. "Ye shall weep and lament," He told them that night.
If the Lord Jesus had not been raised from the dead, we would have no reason to celebrate the Lord's Table, and it would have quickly been forgotten.
Paul preached that if Christ hadn't risen from the grave, our faith would be vain and we would yet be in our sins.
Theologically, had Christ not risen from the dead, our sins would not have been fully paid for. It was necessary that Christ be risen, for He could only stay in the grave had he not fully discharged all the wrath we ought to have suffered.
Paul exults in Romans 4 that Jesus was raised again because we are justified by His sacrifice!
The Resurrection of Christ is the proof that His sacrifice has forever purged away the sin of His people!
Praise God, Christ rose from the grave after three days, and that is why no saint has ever celebrated the Lord's Table in sorrow. There's never been a time when we gathered around the table of the Lord and sorrowed because He was still dead!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
