Easter is that day when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Actually we do this every Sunday but on this one day, we stop on purpose and with deep intention to remember and to celebrate the event itself; the one event that forms and shapes all it means for Christians to be Christian. That Jesus was raised from the dead brings a new way of being in the world, a resurrection way of being in the world.

So it is that on another significant day in history a, when God kept His word and poured out His Spirit on His people, the apostle Peter preached a message that was rooted and grounded in the fact that God had raised Jesus to life again (Acts. 2: 32). Pentecost was the day Jesus baptized His Church with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Matt. 3:11) and what did Peter preach about? The resurrection of Jesus.

In the power of the Holy Spirit Peter confirmed the fact that "it was impossible for death to keep its hold on" Jesus (Acts. 2:24). He confirmed that the ancient king, David, "was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants of his throne" (Acts. 2:30). Peter confirmed that what king David did was to look to what was ahead and that there he saw, "the resurrection of the Christ" (Acts. 2:31). And, to it all Peter bears his own witness and says, "God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact" (Acts 2:32).

Today we are called to a Spirit-baptized witness to the living Christ. Jesus isn't on the cross today and He isn't in a tomb. He lives, and like those of our past we, too, are Faith-witnesses that death itself is defeated and that only Jesus Christ is Lord.