A COMPLETE WORK

     Together, Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday form "a complete work" by a complete God. And whereas "Good Friday" is a day for which it is needful to be particularly mindful of the extraordinary AGONY of the Cross, when it comes to “Resurrection Sunday”, the kingdom principle of "seedtime and harvest" demonstrates and insists that, even for the Cross, "those who sow in tears, shall REAP IN JOY." - PSALM 126:5.

     With less than one week having passed since the deep “sadness” of Good Friday, the ENTIRE FULLNESS that is the Cross insists at the same time that it is necessary to also apprehend that rather than deep “sadness”, Resurrection Sunday, on the other hand, represents the EVEN DEEPER “joy” of NEW LIFE! Which is the astonishing fullness of joy of “NEW BIRTH” - a joy that every mother and father can faultlessly attest to. For whilst the good, good Father initially first “sowed in tears” (on Good Friday), did He not then three days thereafter witness the “new birth” of His beloved Son into “the fullness of the glory of resurrection life” with ALL FULLNESS OF JOY (on Resurrection Sunday)?

     With this in mind, whilst "Good Friday" is a day that strikes a painfully rueful cord in many a soul integrally bound to a sound conscience, "Resurrection Sunday" reminds the same hearts of all those men that more than representing DEATH, the icon of the Cross actually represents LIFE much more than it ever does that of death. For it is specifically with the workings of the Cross in mind that the dual action of the primary kingdom principle applies that unless a seed first falls to the ground “AND PERISHES", that it subsequently won’t produce the ”NEWNESS OF LIFE" (JOHN 12:24).

     Which is figuratively emblematic of the “two-sided duality” of the two pieces of wood intimately woven together as “one Cross”. For whilst "death" is strongly associated with "the tragedy" of the Cross, ultimately, the Cross is more “a victory salute" and “a celebration of life" than it is a prevailing picture of death. And not just any life, but a resoundingly ABUNDANT life at that. "I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly" - JOHN 10:10.

     Which is why, as an icon, the Cross stands empty, WITHOUT Christ still nailed to it. Which, as our own example of those who follow Christ, is just as relevant and significant for all of us too. For, through Christ, those who pick up their cross (die to self) and follow Christ (deny self), we are no longer nailed to the side of the Cross that “is death”, but are instead forever liberated through the resounding victory “of life” over death, of light over darkness. All those depictions of a Cross that show an image of Jesus still hanging on the Cross speak of an incomplete and entirely unfinished story. One minus the power of resurrection life. Which is an image that effectively therefore tells a lie. For did Jesus not declare: “It is finished!”?

     In fact, in the way of kingdom physics, it is upon "exiting one door” (death) that we then "enter through another door” (life). For has it not been said that whenever God closes one door, He always opens another? And the Cross is likewise no different. By the Cross first closing the door on "the TOMB" of the fallen nature, the Cross then subsequently opens the door to "the WOMB" of the divine nature, being that place of abundant life where one is wholly and intimately connected to the umbilical of all that is true life. So that instead of death, we may have life. And, just as for a child in the womb, that we may have that life “in abundance”.

     In this way, the "life" aspect of the Cross completely supersedes and overshadows its representation of "death". And without minimising the death aspect in any way at all, or the huge cost of it, for to get to that life, we need to first go through a death, this effectively makes the Cross remarkably so much more about ushering in life than it is about death.

      Through overcoming "the sting in the tail" of THIS life, a complete God lovingly produces a complete work in man so that he may once again be both thoroughly complete and lacking nothing, all through a life "in abundance" — namely, the resurrection life!