You didn't just hear about the resurrection. You experienced it. Past tense. Accomplished.

Paul's radical claim in Colossians 3:1-4 isn't about someday—it's about right now. "Since you have been raised to new life with Christ..." The same power that shook the ground outside Jerusalem already lives in you. Your old self? Crucified with Christ. Sin's power? Broken, not just weakened. Your real life? Hidden with Christ in God, where nothing can reach it.

Easter asks a personal question: He is risen. Now what? Will you live Monday like someone who believes the tomb is empty? Will you reckon yourself dead to sin and alive to God, not as wishful thinking but as settled fact? The cross you picked up six weeks ago wasn't the destination - it was the gate. Resurrection is what's on the other side.

Stop acting like the old life still owns you. It doesn't. Not anymore.