The good news, and somehow the most controversial thing the world has ever known, since it’s founding people have been trying to fight and stifle it.

Since Cain and Abel unrighteous men have killed those men who seek after righteousness and Truth. Nothing is new about this, it has just been a long time since it has been seen like this in America.

The good news of Jesus Christ must be proclaimed in the face of any and every darkness, for it is the unbreakable and unyielding truth, it is the only thing that saves.

Jesus came, born of a virgin, was raised as a Jewish man, he lived a perfect and sinless life, the only one who could. He was the fullness of the Godhead in human flesh. For over three years he worked a ministry, with signs and wonders following.

During the time of his ministry Jesus cleansed the leper, healed the sick, made the lame to walk and the deaf to hear, preached to the poor, the dead were raised to life, he challenged hypocrites, he challenged people who didn’t want their views challenged, he ate with sinners and loved on them, he commanded the evil spirits out of those they tormented and calmed the storms.

Jesus spoke with authority, with an unmatched understanding of the Holy scriptures. He challenged the views of the world of His time and never backed down, they couldn’t outsmart him, they couldn’t trap Him in their rhetoric, and when they tried to trap Him politically they failed.

While at dinner with a leper, a woman came and anointed him with ointment from an alabaster box, a sign of his coming burial.

Jesus was betrayed by one of his 12, lead before the priest, they mocked Him, beat Him, sent Him before Pilate.

Pilate couldn’t find fault in Him, He was sent before Herod before whom He would not speak. Pilate tried to release Him, but the people chose a murderer over the one who came to save them.

Jesus was beaten again, a crown of thorns was placed upon His head, he was beaten beyond being recognized as a man, then He was crucified where He was mocked and reviled again.

There in His final hours He met a thief, for on either side was a thief. One would find salvation in the lamb of God, the other chose to scorn the one who loved.

Jesus gave up the ghost on the cross, the purpose of His life was finished, He accomplished all He came to do. A mighty earthquake and darkness fell, the veil was split in two.

Jesus was buried in a tomb where never a body lay, purchased by a Pharisee, and a great stone was rolled over the tomb entrance.

The 11 left scattered and knew not what to do at the loss of Jesus.

On the third day, the first day of the week the women went to the tomb and met an Angel. The stone was rolled away.

“He’s not here” proclaimed the angel, for Christ our Lord had risen, just as He said He would do. Jesus was seen by many over the next forty days, as were a great many others who had been dead and raised from the grave with the resurrection of Jesus.

Jesus ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father until the appointed day of His return, where He sits now, as His church proclaims the good news of what Christ has done for all mankind.

Jesus death was not because He challenged the religion, it was not because He was a good teacher. Jesus died as it was the only sacrifice that could wash away the sins of the world. He died so that the lost sheep of the world could come home.

Jesus is the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world, whose blood is the only way to cleanse us of our sin, the only way we can come to salvation and in His name alone is the hope for our eternal salvation.

Jesus is the perfect and eternal sacrifice who died to take away the sins of the world and to call us out of sinful living, but the world hated Him, rejected Him and despised Him, for the world is darkness and could not comprehend Him, for He is the light.

His love for the people of the world, and creation could never be fully understood by us, for it was His great pleasure. Everything that is is by Him, He was in the beginning with the Father, and the Father is in Him and He in the Father.

The good news is we are able to come into the full love of the Son and the Father, through Jesus Christ, it is open to all who will call on His name, call on the name of Jesus Christ that you might be saved. For the Father is not willing that any should perish but that all come to repentance.