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Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them ...
is like a [wise] man which built a house, and digged deep, and laid the foundations on a rock:
and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it:
for it was founded upon a rock (Luke 6:47-48)

Let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
For other foundation can no man lay that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:10b-11)

"In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover"
"For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us" ... "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world"
"While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" ... "the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all"
"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept"
"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore"
"Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus"

The Lord's Death on the Cross

Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted,
See Him dying on the tree.
'Tis the Christ by man rejected,
Yes, my soul, 'tis He! 'tis He!
'Tis the long-expected Prophet,
David's son, yet David's Lord;
Proofs I see sufficient of it,
'Tis the true and faithful Word.

Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning,
Was there ever grief like His?
Friends through fear His cause disowning,
Foes insulting His distress;
Many hands were raised to wound Him,
None would interpose to save;
But the deepest stroke that pierced Him
Was the stroke that Justice gave.

Ye who think of sin but lightly
Nor suppose the evil great,
Here may view its nature rightly,
Here its guilt may estimate.
Mark the sacrifice appointed,
See who bears the awful load;
'Tis the Word, the Lord's anointed,
Son of Man and Son of God.

Here we have a firm foundation;
Here the refuge of the lost;
Christ the Rock of our salvation,
His, the name of which we boast.
Lamb of God, for sinners wounded,
Sacrifice to cancel guilt,
None shall ever be confounded
Who on Him their hope have built.

"In taking all our sins upon Himself; in cleansing them away with the precious blood that flowed from His head, His hands, His feet, His back, His side, the One Who had never sinned was separated from His Father for the first time, and He died; His heart broken. It cost Jesus everything, but it was the perfect sacrifice; the only sacrifice possible to remove man's sin. It was the innocent taking the punishment due to the guilty" [source].

"On the cross Jesus completely reversed the results of the fall in the Garden of Eden. He took the judgement that should have been ours and paid the price for every one of our sins. Our sins were washed away; His blood shed at Calvary cleanses us from ALL sin" [source].

The Lord's Resurrection

"Not one other 'great' religious leader has ever been able to defeat death. The Lord Jesus Christ is the ONLY conqueror of this fearful and terrible enemy of mankind., We no longer need to fear death and can receive God's gift of eternal life by faith when we believe all that Jesus did for us on Calvary" [source].

Easter

The Queen of Heaven: Astarte, Ashtoreth, Isthar, Ishtar, Eastre, Eostre, Ostrae,

"Easter ... is derived from Ishtar, one of the Babylonian titles of an idol goddess, the Queen of Heaven. The Saxon goddess Eastre is the same as the Astarte, the Syrian Venus, called Ashtoreth in the Old Testament. It was the worship of this woman by Israel that was such an abomination to God" [quoted at source].

"The word Easter is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Eostre or Ostrae. The Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring and fertility, to whom the fourth month, answering to our April, thence called 'Eoster-monath' was dedicated. The name of this Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring was unfortunately blended with the passover festival" [quoted at source].

Tammuz

"The wife of Tammuz was Isthar (Astarte), who is called Mother Nature, who being refreshed by spring rains bring life ... the goddess of spring or the dawn goddess is responsible for the resurrection of Tammuz. Easter is a joint worship of the two" [quoted at source].

"A Sumerian fertility god similar to the Greek god Adonis" / "Tammuz is the Semitic equivalent of the Sumerian Dumuzi whose ill-fated love of Inanna (Semitic Ishtar) the goddess of love is recounted in the Sumerian myths of Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld and The Death of Dumuzi. Betrayed by Inanna and consigned to the underworld, Judah lamented Tammuz on the fifth day of the sixth month. The worship of Tammuz was one the many fertility cults of the ancient Near East that had several local variations. Weeping for Tammuz was an act of worship intended to bring him back from the Netherworld. Thus, these women were worshipping this Assyrian deity" [Column / Footnote to Ezekiel 8:14. The King James Study Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers].

Baptism

"There is only one authorised Bible method of celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That is Believer's Baptism. Every time a believer in Christ is baptised, he preaches and testifies that Jesus has been raised from the dead. Never in the scriptures is there any reference to a day or a season for the purpose of observing the resurrection of Jesus ... watching a Believer rising from the waters of baptism is God's appointed testimony" [source].

"Jesus suffered on the cross and died. On the third day He rose again according to the scriptures.
Nothing else matters. Absolutely nothing comes anywhere near the significance of this historical event -
nothing political, nothing religious, nothing philosophical; nothing in an entire world of violence and sin
offers so much hope than the assurance that the risen Christ lives, and so a new world is coming -
one of perfect justice, peace, and righteousness"
[source]

"Behold, I make all things new" (Revelation 21:5)

Thus saith the LORD,
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls
(Jeremiah 6:16)

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