Earlier this year, Hollywood star Jen Lilley released a series of powerful statements on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his salvific power. As she released the message around the time of Easter, her message focused on the death and resurrection of Christ, paying the ultimate price for our sins.
“Easter means everything to me,” Lilley said in a video statement released by the television network Great American Family. “The detail and the great lengths that God the Father went through to adopt me as his child astounds me.”
Lilley further emphasized the origins of Easter. “Easter is actually a celebration of Passover, which is a remembrance of being saved from death and delivered out of slavery out of Egypt,” Lilley said. “And each year for Passover, a family would bring a lamb to be killed.”
The actress pointed out the lamb of sacrifices, noting how it paralleled the story of Jesus. “On the same day this ritual happened, Jesus, who is from Bethlehem, returned to Jerusalem through the Mount of Olives, entering through the eastern gate.”
Furthermore, another aspect that ties the lambs and Jesus’ story is that the High Priest would announce, “It is finished” upon the sacrifice being completed. According to the New Testament, Jesus uttered the same exact words as he died on the cross. John 19:30 (NIV) states, “When He had received the drink, Jesus said, ‘It is finished.’ With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.”
Lily finished her message, tying together the point of Jesus being sacrificed for our sinful nature. “On Easter, Jesus was both our perfect and final Passover Lamb and our High Priest,” she said. “He saved us from death and He offered us new life and His blood became the door to access the Holy of Holies to God’s presence.”
Other celebrities have also expressed a passion for Jesus Christ, such as Russell Brand, who recently decided to become a Christian. The Christian Tribune reported on Brand’s recent social media update one month after his Baptism.
Brand said, “No, repentance, to repent, means that you have to continually change and acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself,” he added. “That I need to surrender myself to an ever-present eternal and accessible Jesus. That mercy is something that’s been given to me, been granted to me, that I live with through love, not something that I can sort of win or achieve by doing good deeds.”
The actor stated that, when he faces uncertainty in his life, he has guidance from God as to how he should proceed. “When I am in doubt, I feel the instruction there is accessible and I know what I am supposed to do and when I don’t do what I am supposed to do, that is even clearer. When I feel myself being selfish or inconsiderate or putting myself first or not thinking about how I can be better to other people, it is as if there is an inner illumination available to me now.”
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