Acts 2:23-24
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
This is a glorious testimony to Jesus. Though lawless men crucified him, death was powerless to hold him. Jesus lives!
If anything seems like it is too much to think that God would do, we ought never forget that no one would have thought that the dead could live again. Jesus shows us, however, that nothing is impossible with God. He died and lives even now. If our God can create the world from his words, and if our God can raise Jesus from the grave, our God can do anything he so chooses. So, the resurrection of Jesus is a testimony to his own power and to our own hope. Jesus has defeated death, he certainly can handle my struggles as well.
Pastor Travis Peterson 