“The Keys” | Easter at Crosspoint City

Revelation 1:17a (ESV) 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.

Revelation 1:17b (ESV) 17 But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not…”

Revelation 1:17b–18 (ESV) 17 I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” – C.S. Lewis

“The resurrection means the worst thing is never the last thing.”— Frederick Buechner