A Children's Resurrection Story

A Children's Resurrection Story


What holiday is in the spring? That’s right. Resurrection Day. I want to tell you about what started a long time before Resurrection Day and finished with Resurrection Day.

Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden. Animals lived there too. God was there as well as Satan. God gave the people only one rule. But even though they only had one rule they disobeyed God. The Gospel has two parts, life for God’s people and death for His enemy. God said to the people after they sinned, “Wear this animal skin to represent how I will save you from death.”
To the enemy He said, “Her descendant will crush your head.”

The descendant God was talking about was Yeshua, Jesus, our Savior. From that time way back then Satan tried to stop Jesus from coming. He tried to kill many of God’s people that would come before Jesus to try to stop Jesus from being born.

There was the time when Cain killed Abel, and also Moses when He was a baby and his mother put him in the basket in the river to save him from being killed by Herod. David the shepherd boy, who later became king had several attempts on his life that are directly related the this. Then even when Jesus was born, God’s enemy tried to kill Jesus several times when He was a baby and when He grew older.

Even though Satan tried his best to kill Jesus he never could do it. Now we come to a place called the Garden of Gethsamane. Jesus and His dIsciples were there late at night. A lot of times they camped out there, but this night Jesus came to pray. He knew that Satan knew that this was the last chance he and the rest of God’s enemies would have to kill Jesus.

So Satan’s entire evil force were there that night to make their final effort to kill Jesus before He went to the cross because they knew if they could stop Jesus going to the cross that they would stop God’s word from coming true about their head.

You see Jesus came to earth so that we could have salvation from our sins through Jesus’s death on the cross. John 3:16 says God so loved what? The world that He gave His only Son that we would not perish. God loved us but not sin so He prepared Jesus to come.

In Ps. 40: 6 Jesus said to God “I am your loyal willing servant and I have come to do your will. nothing else matters.” Back then servants had to work for their master for a set number of years and then after that they could decide if they wanted to continue with that master or go free. When a servant was willing to keep being servant for life to their master, the master pierced their ear to show that this servant willingly choose to keep serving this master.

Jesus said to God the Father and us, “My ears You have pierced. I want to write it down so that all will know that I am only a servant to God the Father.” In John 14:30 Jesus said “the world must know that I love the Father and I will do exactly what the Father tells me to do.” In Hebrews 10:7 He says “I have come to do your will.” When a servant is good and obedient he never even thinks about what he wants, only what his master wants. That may cause the servant pain and suffering but he doesn’t stop, he keeps doing what master says because he loves the master and will anything he asks.

So here is Jesus in the Garden. It is late at night. Jesus was motivated by love not selfishness and fear. But the demons were working so hard Jesus was almost dead there in the garden. Even the demons in Psalm chapter 40 thought He would not get up but would die.

So Jesus prays “Father help Me! save Me from the uncountable enemies around Me! They want to stop Me from doing Your will for salvation. I want to do what You want but this body needs Your support to stand against this attack of the enemy who want Me to die here instead of at the cross for salvation!”

Then to make sure we understand that He is the servant of the Father, He said “I am My father’s servant and would never tell Him what to do so, “not My will but it is the will of My Father who sent Me!”

When Jesus was on trial with Pontias Piolate He said He could call for angels to save Him but He didn’t, because Pontias Piolate and the people were not Jesus's enemy and that would have been for selfish reasons. But in the Garden was God’s real enemy and it was in God’s interest that He cried for help.

Then God gave Jesus protection in the garden that night so that Jesus could go to the cross and save us like God and He wanted because God loves us. So you see Jesus’s will is never different from God the Father’s. (John17:11) and Jesus wants to show us that He is always submitted and in unity with God and that is what God wants for us.

And that is why we can now joyfully celebrate Resurrection Day—the day our Savior Yeshua rose from the grave and brought us with Him into eternal life. Have you asked Him to be your Savior and LORD yet?