Satisfied with God's Goodness; A special Easter teaching By Pastor Tunde Ayeni

Texts: Jeremiah 31:11-14; Psalm 65:1-6; Romans 2:4; 5:6-10; 3:22-25; 1 John 2:1-2; 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18; Ephesians 2:11-12, 18; Psalm 71:20-21.
We must lay hold of everything that Jesus died and paid for. We are not there yet until we manifest the fullness of His excelling glory.
In Christianity, you have not come to a pastor, breath-taking edifice, or to some disaster. Rather, you have come streaming to the goodness of God.
By just knowing that God is good, that should be enough to deter you from putting your hands into iniquity in the effort to get some things done. God is not depriving you of enjoyment when He tells you to do or not to do something. Your welfare is His top priority.
The Implications of the Gift of Jesus:
1. God is no longer angry with you.
Christ is our propitiation; a propitiation is a gift packaged to pacify someone you have offended. Now the anger of God against us has dissipated because Jesus Christ is the propitiation (the offering and atonement) for our sins--not your offering, fasting, or hard labor aimed at pleasing God. He has pleased God on our behalf. Hallelujah!
2. We have been reconciled to God.
We have become friends of God by the reason of what Jesus has done. What is better than that? That's not all; we are now bonafide citizens of the Kingdom of God.
3. Access
The veil of the Temple was torn as a result of Christ's death guaranteeing our direct, express, and personal access to God Himself.
The question is, "How will you use your access?" What you call suffering in your life currently is because you're not using your access.
You cannot blend or compromise your way to success. Talk to the One who has access to any man. I don't know any man that God cannot touch. You have access to the Throne of Grace and King of Kings--use it!