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The Resurrection of the Lord is the renewal of human nature. His Resurrection is a new revival, a new creation, our return to the immortal life of Adam. At one time, Adam was swallowed up by death. Death returned Adam back to the earth from which he was created. Since then, God has been pained about man's salvation. The Word of God, the Eternal and Infinite, the Almighty and the All-Powerful, the Son of God could have saved man from death and slavery to the devil even without His incarnation. However, the most suitable method in relation to our nature and weakness was our salvation through the incarnation of the Word of God. This method is the most fair: God does nothing in an unjust manner. Man was abandoned by God because he himself had abandoned Him first. Thus death entered the world. We, of our own free will, gave ourselves into slavery to the devil. God wanted to defeat the devil in a fair way (that is, by becoming a Man), so that then, by the power of His Resurrection and future Judgment, he would completely crush him. Among other things, this is the excellent order - justice comes first, and force follows. This matter of our salvation is a matter of Divine and good providence, and not of tyranny. And the murderer the devil rebelled against us out of envy and hatred. And now the Head of Life, Christ, was motivated by extreme love for people. The Creator loved the salvation of the created. The Liberator achieved a final victory over the evil enemy and renewed His creation. It was necessary for the victorious devil to be defeated by the nature he had defeated, and that is why it was necessary to be born as a New Man, uninvolved in sin. And of course, we were talking about the impossible. The Holy Scriptures say that: “No one is without sin, even if he has lived only one day on earth” (Cf. Job 14:4–5). Thus, the One Sinless One, the Son and Word of God, becomes the Son of Man. He not only took on human nature, but became inseparably united with it. He was born both God and Man. If He were the same as all of us, then He would be neither a new Man, nor the Leader and Giver of new life, and it would be impossible for Him to either have in Himself the fullness of the incorruptible Divinity, or to make His Flesh an inexhaustible source of sanctification. Christ invariably remains God, having become, through love for people, a perfect Man. Therefore, in the beginning, the devil who defeated man is defeated by Man. The enemy is cast down from the heights of his exaltation, and man is recreated after mental and physical death. Satan is justly abandoned by God, and we are freed from mortification. In His humility, He became our Teacher and shows us the path leading to life. Because of our sin and disobedience, we were children of wrath. Now, clinging to Christ, we have become children of favor. Heaven opened for us. The Spirit of God abides in us because He who raised Christ from the dead also gave life to our mortal bodies. Death no longer reigns over the risen Christ, and with Him the beginning of the future resurrection of us all was realized. Now our human nature is at the right hand of the majesty of the Trinity God in Heaven, above all beginning and power. If, having become man, Christ had not suffered in the flesh and suffered death, if He had not been resurrected and ascended to Heaven, then we would not have known the superiority of God’s love for us. And now, living in obedience and experiencing and realizing the mystery of God’s goodness through our own experience, we become more and more humble. Our salvation depends on our humility. Christ's sacrifice reconciled us to God the Father and cleansed us. Liberation by the Resurrection is given to us - to all those who came into this life, and to all those who will come into it after us. Having died, Christ descended into hell, where he preached the Gospel to everyone who lived before Him, in order to give them the opportunity to become participants in the Divine economy. By His Blood, the Guilty and Sinless God freed us from guilt, forgiving our sins. We received liberation because the devil was defeated, and the handwriting of our sins was torn to pieces on the Cross. His resurrection freed us from death. After all these sacred events, every believer should rejoice with hope. And besides, we should consciously endure the wretchedness of earthly life. We must resist sin with patience, and, if necessary, even to the point of bloodshed. After all, for a person there is no greater evil than sin; sin is worse than death itself. The saints endured everything, the martyrs gave their lives in order not to lose Christ. Christ rose from the dead so that we too could live a new life. This new life is now visible as if in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see God face to face. May He help us, by His grace and love for mankind, to taste the Divine radiance and enlightenment. Out of love for all of us, He became a Man, endured suffering, was buried and resurrected. In His Ascension, He carried our fallen nature into Heaven, where it remains in communion with His Originless Father and the All-Holy and Life-Giving Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.