Daily Devotional for Tuesday April 15, 2025

Can you reject Jesus and still be in Heaven? and, Why a Christian MUST celebrate the resurrection!

DAILY DEVOTIONAL TUESDAY APRIL 15, 2025

(Matthew 28:1-8)

***PERSONAL MESSAGE FOR YOU FROM BILL KELLER: Keep Jesus 1 in your life, your every thought, your every action!!!

**DAILY PERSONAL PRAYER FOR YOU: Dear Lord, please help me to live this day honoring You in my thoughts, words, and deeds. Help me this day to live my life pleasing and acceptable to Jesus. Allow me to use my life to help someone else during this day, and be kind to everyone I come across no matter how they may treat me. Let Christ shine through me throughout this day oh Lord, be glorified through my life! In Jesus name I pray...AMEN!

***THE DAILY LIVEPRAYER TV NUGGET: More people that ever who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ are buying into the universalistic lie from hell that even if a person rejects faith in Christ, God will still “let them in Heaven!” This is a most dangerous lie since it completely negates God's one and only plan of Salvation. Even more egregious, it literally makes the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ completely unnecessary! Thank about this for a second. If a person can make it to Heaven apart from Christ's finished work on the cross, than his death as the perfect one-time sacrifice for the sins of all mankind was really meaningless. Faith in Christ to be saved isn't required. It is a most damnable lie. It is the lie promoted by every new age guru like Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Eckerd Tolle, and a host of others who Oprah exploited in the last years of her TV program. 15 years ago, I was one of the only people in the secular media challenging Oprah on this lie she was telling to her vast audience. Sadly today, that lie is alive and well not just in the new age circles, but due to the watered down preaching in many Christian churches, amongst born-again Believers as well! If you have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, please go to this link: https://www.liveprayer.com/salvation.cfm

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***APRIL FINANCIAL UPDATE: I need your help today! We ended the month of March still requiring the final $20,000 from our February ministry operations and the $55,000 we required for March. So far we have covered $15,000 of that final $20,000 from February. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO COVER THIS LAST $5,000 FROM FEBRUARY ASAP!

That would than leave the $55,000 from March and the $55,000 for April’s ministry operations or $115,000 to end the months with all of our ministry operations current! OUR GOD IS ABLE!!!

The Bible teaches us to “give according to our ability to give.” For some that may be $10 or $20. For others it may be $50 or $100. Still others it may be $200, $500, $1,000, $10,000 or more. GOD WILL BLESS YOUR GIFT NO MATTER WHAT THE AMOUNT!!!

ALSO, DON'T FORGET A GIFT OF $1,800 COVERS ONE DAY OF MINISTRY AT LIVEPRAYER!!! I received this email recently, “Pastor Bill, My wife and I have just sold our last rental and God told us to tithe $1,800.00 to pay for a day of your ministry. Not looking for accolades, just that you know when you receive the check. Rest assured that we will still be making our regular weekly tithes."

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*LIVE ON AFTER YOU ARE IN HEAVEN!!! By remembering God's work here at Liveprayer in your will/estate planning, you can still help me share His Truth with the masses, be here for people in their time of greatest need, and help lead the lost to faith in Jesus even after God has called you home!!! God has led many of our friends in the Liveprayer family to remember His work here in their will. Please pray about this opportunity to continue and partner with me in the Lord's work at Liveprayer, even after you are enjoying your rewards and the eternal peace of Heaven! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at: bkeller@liveprayer.com

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Every year at this time, I get inundated with emails that read like doctrinal dissertations on why a Christian should NOT celebrate Easter. They mostly come from cults, but also from some Christian groups, primarily Messianic congregations that in recent years have been hijacked by Gentiles and preach and teach a very legalistic doctrine focused solely on the Old Testament. For the record, Passover is a Jewish Feast and NOT a Christian celebration. Jesus became the "perfect one-time sacrifice" for the sins of mankind.

These groups make arguments about the pagan roots of Easter, the evils of Easter eggs, the satanic nature of the Easter bunny, and many other reasons why a Christian should not celebrate Easter. To those people I have only one thing to say, "You have sadly missed the point of this special time of year!!!" Listen, everyone knows that the word Easter is not in the Bible (actually Easter is in the KJV, but is an incorrect translation of the Greek word that should say Passover) and originates from the pagan goddess Eostre. Do we stop using the names for the days of the week and months of the year because they also have pagan roots.

I have yet to meet anyone who worshiped an Easter egg, only ate them. If you are old enough to be able to read this, you are old enough to know that there is no Easter Bunny. These are simply symbols that the world uses in regard to this holiday. There is only ONE REASON a Christian celebrates Easter, and that is to celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! One easy solution to those offended by the word "Easter" is to simply call Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day!

Christians SHOULD celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus! It is right and good that we take time each year to remember this blessed event. It is a well-documented, historical event chronicled in all four Gospels and supported by the historians of that day. It is easily the GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY! Think about it. God Himself, the Creator of the heavens and earth, came to this earth as a mere man to live with His creation.

He came as a baby, born of a virgin in a humble manger in an obscure little town. He would grow up to die on a cross as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all mankind. Three days after His death, God would raise Him from the dead as a sign to this lost and unbelieving world that He was exactly who He claimed to be-the SON OF GOD!!! His life would literally transform the lives of every man, woman, and child for the rest of human history. THAT is why we celebrate Easter. THAT is why, as Christians, we MUST celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord.

I love you and care about you so much. I realize that most people who say not to celebrate Easter mean well and are trying to live their lives in a way pleasing and acceptable to God. But they have missed the point of Easter. Easter is about only one thing, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus. It is one of those times of the year that we gather with family and friends and share our faith in Christ.

Easter is also VERY BIBLICAL. All four Gospels gives us the account of the very first Easter. Now, some 2,000 years later, we will set aside time this Sunday to celebrate the day that God raised our Lord from the dead.

I pray today that you will never forget what Easter is really about and why we celebrate this day. Of course, anything that the world gets involved with becomes perverted. The world has taken this sacred time of the year and turned it into a time of commerce. We must never allow ourselves to get so caught up in the commercialism of the Easter season, to forget what it is about . . . a time to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus.

THAT is what Easter is really about, and THAT is why, as Christians, we MUST celebrate the greatest event in human history! Prepare to have a most blessed and special Resurrection Day this coming Sunday!!!

In His love and service,

Your friend and co-laborer in His work,

Bill Keller