In his victory speech Tuesday night, Romney stayed focused on President Obama, while paying little attention to his own party’s rivals. Meanwhile, Santorum declared to a group of supporters in the small city of Steubenville, Ohio, “The Republican Party has to nominate somebody who can talk about the broad vision of what America is. To beat Obama, we need a fighter, and someone who learned what America was about by growing up in communities just like this.”But in exactly one month, there will occur the observance of another "super" day. Unlike "Super Tuesday", this one is always on a Sunday and falls on April 8th this year. And unlike yesterday’s big political splash, what this day in April represents cannot be described using words like "super" or really any other term for that matter. This “Super Sunday” represents the greatest day and achievement in all of human history and even eternity. It is commonly known as Easter Sunday. Others prefer to use "Resurrection Sunday” – a term they feel to be more biblically revealing and accurate.
This is the day when Christians, and much of the world, look back some twenty centuries. It focuses upon the day when the Son of God, after shedding His sinless blood on the cross to justify a spiritually lost race, then arose from the dead. He had predicted He would conquer death and He did! In doing so, He proved His deity, provided mankind’s redemption, and succeeded in turning the world upside down in the process. His death and subsequent resurrection on this “Super Sunday” was, again, the single most crucial event in all of human history. It provided sinners the solitary way of gaining forgiveness and justification by accepting His free offer of salvation.
For two thousand years, believers in Christ have looked back to a Sunday that is so "super" that it really has no words than can capture its majesty, importance and eternal consequences. It began a few days earlier with the incredible words that signaled that sin had been fully paid for - once and for all. John 19:30 describes it this way: “So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished !' And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.”But it was then a few days later, on Sunday, that the one remaining ingredient was miraculously added. It was then and there that Christ’s stunning resurrection proved who He was, His ability to justify sinners, and allow those who would trust Him to also someday be raised to new life and reside in heaven with Him forever. (John 3:16, Romans 10:9, Acts 16:31, 1 John 5:12) That great "Super Sunday" morning is briefly related in Matthew’s words as follows:
“But the angel answered and said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead.' ” (Matthew 28:5-7)
“Super Tuesday” for 2012 is past history. And yet, even the victor on that day may not ultimately see his dream of occupying the great White House come to fruition. But all that have personally responded by faith to the events of that first "Super Sunday" have won the greatest prize of all. They will someday reside with, and even be like, their Savior, in a place and in a position that makes being the President of the United States pale in contrast. (1 John 3:2) For they alone will enjoy an eternal existence that is also far beyond any imaginable descriptive terminology.“God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." (Revelation 21:3-4)
Bill Breckenridge
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