A Special Memorial Day Sunday

Our Memorial Day Sunday service was a special day as we honored those people in the past who wore uniforms representing our country. People who fought against those who were trying to steal our freedom away. On Memorial Day Sunday we also remembered the people in the present, who still fight for our freedoms today. As an American, we can enjoy a freedom and a quality of life that many people in the world don’t have. That freedom that quality of life didn’t just happen out of the blue, it’s something that was earned for us by other people. That’s why we have Memorial Day, to remember and honor those people.

We celebrate Memorial Day once a year to remember those who died for freedom. But every week, every Sunday can be a memorial day as we come to celebrate our life in Christ. Those who were sacrificed in war gave us political freedom, but Jesus Christ gives us eternal freedom. The Apostle Paul in Colossians 2:13 tells us that we as believers have been made alive in Christ. Last Sunday we found out what being alive in Christ really means.

●Being alive in Christ means that we have His life on the inside of us.

1 John 4:13 (NKJV) says "we abide in Him and He in us".

●Being alive in Christ means that we have been forgiven and raised up in Him as His workmanship a new creation.

Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

●Being alive in Christ means that He has joined Himself with each one of us.

Jesus said in John 15:5 (NKJV)
"I am the vine; you are the branches"

●Being alive in Christ means that we are seated with Him in heavenly places.

The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2:6 (NKJV) says that Jesus has,
Raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

A devout Scotchman, being asked if he ever expected to go to heaven answered, “Why man I live there”. Heaven is not a far distant place of which we know very little about, it can be experienced here and now because of the sacrifice that Christ has made for each one of us. On Memorial Day Sunday we celebrated both being alive and those who have gone on before us. As we prepared to enter into a day to remember those who died for liberty, we also remembered the One who died to set us free. We came together to celebrate being alive in Christ.