All Jesus, All the Time, For All Time

Easter Sunday Sermon , 4/5/2026

When I was asked to preach here at Huntley Community Covenant on Easter Sunday, I was greatly honored. And, of course, I wanted to give you my very best effort and bless you to the very best of my abilities. 

I had some ideas about where to go with the message but, honestly, I was indecisive right up until a week ago Friday when I attended the 2026 Men’s Advance at Lake Geneva Conference Center near Alexandria, Minnesota. The featured speaker there was a preacher named Dr. Allen Tennison. 

That man got up behind the pulpit Friday night and gave us a three-point sermon inside a three-point sermon, inside yet another three-point sermon – and every one of his points was JESUS!

I knew right then and there what I was going to preach about today.

But, I don’t want you to think that I am going to preach a stolen sermon this morning. I’m totally stealing the idea, but I don’t think he’s the only preacher who has preached all Jesus, all the time, for all time.  He just did it really well. 

So, I’m going to be doing a congregational participation sermon this morning – No, it’s not a quiz or a test, because you already know all the answers. Every question is going to have the same answer and, yes, it’s the Sunday School answer.

For example, when I ask you, “When John wrote in John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” who was he talking about?

That’s right, it was JESUS!

And, when Adam and Eve were tempted into sin by that old snake and God had to kick them out of the Garden, God promised to smash the serpent’s head in Genesis 3:15. Now, just who was going to do the smashing? (Various translations say “strike,” “bruise,” or “smash.” As near as I can tell, the Hebrew word means “to snap at, overwhelm, and bust open.”) So WHO was going to bust open that serpent’s head?

Right again! It was JESUS! 

And those sacrificial lambs who were killed and their blood painted on the door posts and lintels during Passover, in Exodus 12:21, who did that point to?

Yes indeed, it was Jesus – the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

How about Numbers 21:8 when God told Moses to make a bronze serpent (representing our sin) on a pole and have the people look up to it – who did that point to?

Jesus on the cross! Right! 

And, right before Joshua leads the Israelites into the battle for Jericho,  he meets a man on the road with a sword in his hand who identifies Himself as “the Commander of the LORD’s armies. Any guesses who that was?

Yep, it was JESUS!

In the Book of Ruth, where Boaz is the kinsman redeemer, which Redeemer was that pointing to? 

JESUS again! AMEN!

Hannah’s prayer is found in 1 Samuel, 2. Verse 10 reads:

“Those who fight against the LORD will be shattered.

He thunders against them from heaven;

the LORD judges throughout the earth.

He gives power to his king;

he increases the strength of his anointed one.”

The king and anointed one she is talking about is…?

Bingo! Jesus again!

In 2 Samuel, 7:16 the LORD tells the prophet Nathan to tell King David, 

“Your house and your kingdom will continue before me for all time, and your throne will be secure forever.’”

How can that be?

Right! King Jesus, (a descendant of David) will rule on the throne forever!

In 2 Kings 4, verses 42-44, there’s a story about a servant of Elisha bringing the prophet a sack of grain and some barley loaves. There was a famine in Gilgal at the time and Elisha says, “Give it to the people so they can eat.” The servant replies that it’s impossible to feed a hundred people with what he brought, but Elisha says, “Give it to the people so they can eat, for this is what the LORD says: ‘Everyone will eat, and there will even be some left over!’ And when they gave it to the people, there was plenty for all and some left over, just as the LORD had promised.“ 

Does that ring any bells, folks?

Jesus feeding the five thousand! Right again!

Even in the oldest book of the Bible, Job is quoted as saying, in Chapter 19, verse 25, ““But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,

and he will stand upon the earth at last.”

Of course, that Redeemer is…”

Jesus! Yes!

Psalm 22 describes exactly what it’s like to be crucified on a cross. It even says, “They divide my garments among themselves and throw dice for my clothing…” And David wrote that a thousand years before who walked the earth? 

Yep, JESUS!

And when Isaiah wrote in Chapter 53, verse 5: “ But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.”--  We know who he was talking about, right?

JESUS! Yes, JESUS!

There’s a prophecy in Nahum 1:15 that says there is a messenger coming over the mountains with “good news.” Any guesses on who that “good news” messenger could be?

JESUS again!

Zechariah 9:9 says, “Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey— riding on a donkey’s colt.” Now, who could that be?”

JESUS!

All in all, there are 65 “Christophanies” (prophesies and references to Jesus) in the Old Testament. I only gave you a dozen here.

So, when we get to the New Testament, we see all of those prophecies fulfilled by…

JESUS!

Who was born of a virgin, in Bethlehem? –Jesus! 

 Who crushes Satan’s head? –Jesus!

Feeds thousands with just a few loaves of bread? –Jesus!

Seed of Abraham, descendant of David, blesses all nations? –Jesus again!

The promised Lamb of God – Bingo! Jesus!

The one who all nations will honor? – JESUS!

The Great I AM? – Jesus!

The rock of Israel? – Jesus!

Lifted up on a tree and crucified? – Jesus!

Not a bone broken as He was sacrificed? –Jesus again!

Sent by the Father to speak His word? – JESUS!

A kinsman who redeems us? – JESUS!

The Good Shepherd? – Jesus!

Mediator between man and God? –Jesus!

Anointed as Christ and Messiah? –Jesus!

Declared the beloved Son at His baptism? – Jesus!

Took the sin of the entire world upon Himself? – JESUS!

Do we know who is it that was hated without cause, falsely convicted, hung from the cross in darkness for three hours when He died, heard to cry out that He is forsaken by God, thirsted but was denied water, innocent of all sin and wrongdoing but murdered anyway, mocked, beaten, pierced with a spear and His blood pour out like water, pierced through in His hands and feet, stripped bare and His clothes divided by casting lots, forced to die in agony – rejected and killed by those who called themselves men of God, He who cried out “It is finished!” at the moment of His death? 

Yes, all Jesus!

A total of 315 prophecies were fulfilled by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus as described in the New Testament.

But the most glorious and wonderful of all of those prophecies is that the grave could not hold Him. They mocked Him, hit Him, pulled out His beard, whipped Him to the point that He almost bled to death, killed Him in the most painful and humiliating way known to man, then sealed Him in a tomb with a 3,000 pound rock over the entrance and Roman guards posted all around it (under penalty of death if they failed) to make very, very sure no one stole the body. 

The Pharisees and the Romans were absolutely certain they had shut Him up. They were satisfied that they would hear no more of this trouble-maker who threatened their wealth and power. I imagine even the devil thought he had won. 

But then God said, “Watch this.”

And Jesus stepped out of that grave alive! The grave could not hold Him. Death could not have Him! Who was ALIVE? JESUS!

JESUS IS ALIVE!!

And, in that moment –and ever since – what the devil had stolen in the Garden was restored to all who believe in the NAME OF JESUS! 

Because the tomb is empty, because HE IS RISEN, we are no longer slaves to sin! Because He is ALIVE – just and exactly as He said He would be – everything He said, everything His disciples and we believe about Him is not just true, it is PROVEN to be true!  We need not doubt or worry that there is any contradiction to the undeniable and certain fact that JESUS is LORD!

Paul writes in Philippians 2, verses 9-11, that because of all of this:

“Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor

and gave him the name above all other names,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God the Father.”

And that is why there is POWER in the name of Jesus! That’s why the name of Jesus heals sickness and disease! That’s why the lame walk and prisoners to shame and guilt, to addiction to drugs and every kind of sin are SET FREE! That is why the demons tremble and the devil himself has to FLEE at the POWER of the NAME OF JESUS!

There has never been nor will there ever be a name greater than or more powerful than the name of JESUS because He and God Himself are ONE!

And we know that He will return! And when He does, as it says in Revelation 19:11-16 He will not be riding a humble donkey as He did on Palm Sunday. No, He will be riding a white horse – a war horse – and He will be called “Faithful and True” and He will have with Him a sword, and on His robe and on His thigh will be written the name: 

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

That is why we speak the name of JESUS!

We speak it from the mountains, we speak it in the streets, we speak it in the darkness, we speak it over every enemy! 

 And this JESUS, this GOD in the flesh who came and saved us all, the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS will rule and reign forever and ever!

AMEN! AMEN and HALLELUJAH!