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Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday are glorious celebrations; it is a time when we are intentional about paying homage to the sacrifice that Jesus made and what it meant to humanity.

As awesome, miraculous, and life-changing as the resurrection of “Jesus, the Christ” was and is, there is much more Christians need to understand to be more effective in our witness. 

Because what good is our faith if we can’t effectively minister to an unbeliever? 

Consider today's message a training session for the evangelism you, as a believer, are charged to embrace.  If you are a skeptic or unbeliever, adjust your headset, as we may answer some of your questions today.

Resurrection 101 calls for us to understand and embrace all that occurred between the cross and the resurrection and the significance of it all collectively.

To properly address what happened after Christ’s resurrection, we must look closely at what happened within those last 3 hours of Jesus on the cross before  His physical body died and was placed in the tomb. 

First, let’s not ignore that the most crucial times of Him on that cross were the last 3 hours.  Three, which biblically is always the divine stamp of wholeness, completeness, and perfection.  

I want to take the time to embellish on the 3 hours because depending on what biblical translation you read of Matthew 27, verses 45 and 46, you may find different wording, but all mark the time as 3 hours being lapsed.

Some translations read Matthew 27:45-46 as “Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. 46 And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out loudly, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

While other translations may read Matthew 27: 45 reads, “From noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon, Jesus cried out loudly, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”.

In our humanity and adoption of religious mindsets, sometimes we allow ourselves to become so distracted by how things are perceived in today’s culture that we lend no consideration or homage to the cultures that precede us.  

We often unconsciously, thanks to our humanistic character,  want to find a way to discount the Bible or find some justification that would leave just a little doubt as to if EVERY word of the Bible is true.  

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