With advancements in life-saving technologies, our modern society has done a good job of avoiding death until the last possible second. But this is not how death works. In the Bible, death is personified as a shepherd for the arrogant (Ps. 49:14) and a consumer of flesh (Job 18:13). Death comes for us all. No matter how long we try to avoid it, it will claim our lives. But the good news of Easter Sunday is that Death no longer has any power over us because it could not hold Jesus in the grave. Jesus came to overcome the power of death to give us new resurrection life now and in the future. The big idea from Acts 2:22-40 is this: Because death could not hold Jesus Christ, it cannot hold us.