Samuel Pipim : WE SHALL ALSO LIVE

When He cried, “It is finished,” some thought HE was finished. “One of His friends betrayed Him. Others deserted Him. One of them denied Him. Turned over to His enemies, He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While dying, His executioners gambled for His clothing…. When dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave…. But three days later He rose from the dead” (James A. Francis). “He is risen…indeed” (Matt 28:6, 7)! He Himself declared: “I am He that died and am alive for evermore.” His enemies thought they could tarnish, banish, vanish or finish Him. But He rose! And He lives! And “because He lives, we shall also live” (cf. John 14:19).—Samuel Pipim