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Easter 2025
Mike Wilson
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Easter 2025: Jesus Overcame Fear
At New Life, Easter isn’t just a tradition—it’s a celebration of transformation. Easter 2025 invited people from every walk of life into the most powerful truth ever spoken: Jesus is alive, and that changes everything. This year’s Easter message proclaimed one clear theme—fear is no match for resurrection power, and hope is not only possible, it’s promised.
Fear Holds Us Back—But Jesus Sets Us Free
Pastor Mike began the message with a story many families could relate to—a trip to a movie theater with his young son. As a live-action version of Snow White unfolded on screen, Pastor Mike’s son gripped his arm, filled with fear each time the evil queen appeared. “Dad, can we leave?” he whispered. He just wanted the scary part to be over.
This simple story illustrates a powerful truth: fear has a way of gripping us and controlling us—even when we know the ending is good. This is the human condition. We’re afraid of failure, of pain, of the unknown. And we often try to mask those fears by pretending to be in control, but deep down we know—we’re not strong enough to fix the brokenness around us.
The Message of Easter 2025
The resurrection of Jesus Christ speaks directly to our fears. Easter 2025 was not about sentimentality or tradition—it was about power. Power that defeats death, overcomes fear, and declares victory over everything that once held us back.
In 1 Timothy 6:15–16, Paul writes to a young Timothy, encouraging him to stay bold in the face of fear:
At just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only Almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords. He alone can never die, and He lives in light so brilliant that no human can approach Him.
This passage reminds us that God is not just a king—He is the King of Kings. He alone holds power over life and death. The story of Easter 2025 was not about a man who died—it was about a Savior who conquered death and now offers us the same victory.
The Fear Narrative Is Fake News
Many voices in our world today thrive on selling fear. Whether it’s politics, media, or even religion in some cases, fear is a tool used to control people. But Easter 2025 reminded us that the fearful message is not the real message.
The good news of the gospel is that God is not losing—He’s already won. Hebrews 4:15 says:
Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.”
This is what Jesus did: He entered our world of flesh and blood. He stepped into our pain, experienced our fear, and defeated our greatest enemy—death itself. He broke the power of fear forever. And now, because of Him, we can live as people who are no longer slaves to fear.
Easter Isn’t About Trying Harder
One of the central themes of Easter 2025 was this: the gospel is not about trying to be better. It’s about surrendering to the One who already was good enough.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.”
This well-known verse was a cornerstone of the message. It’s not about behavior modification or self-help. It’s about trust. About receiving a gift you could never earn on your own.
At Easter 2025, attendees were given a chance to say “Yes” to Jesus—not by earning it, but by accepting the free gift of salvation. Those who responded were given a symbolic keychain—a physical reminder of the keys to the Kingdom that Jesus has already given us (Matthew 16:19).
The Crown of Thorns Is a Crown of Victory
When we look at the cross, we might not see a crown. We might only see pain. But Easter 2025 taught us to see something deeper. That crown of thorns wasn’t defeat—it was Jesus’ coronation.
Jesus did not stay on the cross. He did not stay in the tomb. Jesus rose from the dead and defeated death.
This isn’t just theology. This is hope. Real hope for real people in the middle of real pain. Easter 2025 reminded us that Jesus didn’t just rise for Himself. He rose for us. To give us peace, purpose, and the assurance that we don’t have to fear what’s ahead.
Who Will Be Your Master?
Another important truth declared during Easter 2025 was that everyone serves a master. The question isn’t if you’ll be ruled by something—the question is who or what you will allow to be your master. Jesus says in Matthew 6:24,
No one can serve two masters.
Many of us try to play king of our own castle, to control everything around us. But control is an illusion. Life is too unpredictable, pain is too real, and death is too permanent—unless your life is hidden in Christ.
At Easter 2025, attendees were challenged to stop trying to be their own savior and instead surrender to Jesus as their King. Because only then do we receive the perks of citizenship in His Kingdom: peace, purpose, and eternal life.
You Can Be Free From the Fear of Death
Only in this way could He set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.”
This is the heartbeat of Easter 2025—freedom. Not just from sin, but from fear itself. So many people live under the shadow of death, fearing what’s next. But Jesus’ resurrection changes that. His victory becomes our victory.
If Jesus gave you the keys to life, why would you continue to live in fear?
Perfect love expels all fear.
That kind of love—the kind that doesn’t just talk but acts, that sacrifices, that dies and rises again—is the kind of love that gives us peace no matter what we face. This was the truth shouted from the rooftops during Easter 2025.
Saying Yes to Jesus
At the end of the message, people across the room and online were given a simple invitation: say yes. Stop running. Stop fearing. Stop trying to be good enough. And just say yes to Jesus.
Saying yes to Jesus isn’t just about going to Heaven when you die—it’s about being made new today. It’s about stepping into the Kingdom and letting Jesus be the King of your whole life.
The action step was simple—fill out a card, check a box, receive a keychain. But the spiritual step behind it was life-changing.
Final Thoughts: Easter 2025 and Beyond
At New Life, we believe Easter 2025 marked more than a single Sunday celebration. It was a turning point. A declaration. A calling for people to stop living under fear and to start living under the reign of Jesus Christ.
Jesus has already won. The grave is empty. The King is alive. And His Kingdom is open to all who say yes.
Easter 2025 was a reminder that the invitation is always open—and the keys are already in our hands.
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