Sunday is coming—what does that mean?

from the old testament

• God created Adam and Eve to have relationship with Him in a perfect world. Yet, Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan and sinned, bringing sin and death into the world. Yet, God promised victory after the fall (Genesis 3:15). From the beginning, God promised that the serpent would wound the Messiah, but the Messiah would ultimately crush evil. Though sin negatively impacted our relationship with God and the state of the world, the story was never headed toward defeat—it was always moving toward God’s promised victory over sin and Satan.
• Though sin and death entered into the world, it would not have the final word. Job revealed this truth in Job 19:25—26 when he recorded, “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.” The oldest book written, it is clear that Job looked beyond death to a living Redeemer. The resurrection is the moment when that hope became reality—God’s Redeemer stands alive—and therefore we, too, have hope, even in suffering. Suffering will come, but we can have hope that suffering, sin, and death will not have the final word...Sunday is coming.
• The reality of a resurrection was prophetically foreshadowed (see Psalm 16:10). The truth that David's soul would not be abandoned to Sheol points beyond David to the Messiah who would not remain in the grave. “Sunday is coming” gives hope that corruption and the grave will not hold the Holy One.
• After suffering and death, the Suffering Servant lived again (Isaiah 53:10—11). The resurrection was God’s public vindication of the crucified Messiah. Though the Romans and Pharisees thought they had won on that Good Friday when Jesus died (whether or not it was an actual Friday), the resurrection happened and changed everything.
• Israel’s restoration vision in Ezekiel 37:5—6 reflects God’s power to bring life from death—pointing forward to Christ’s resurrection as the ultimate life-from-death miracle.

from the new testament

• Jesus willingly gave His life as a substitute to pay the penalty for our sins (2 Corinthians 5:21). But death was not the end—Jesus rose bodily (Matthew 28:5–6; Luke 24:39). The resurrection confirms that Jesus kept His word. The tomb was empty, proving that death was defeated, not victorious (1 Corinthians 15:54–57; Hebrews 2:14–15).
  
• Romans 1:4 tells us that Jesus' resurrection declared Him "to be the Son of God in power." The resurrection is God’s validation of Jesus. Sunday is coming is significant because His death was not the end. His resurrection meant that Jesus was publicly affirmed as Lord and Son of God with power over death itself.
• The resurrection proves the cross worked. Jesus didn’t just die for sin—He rose showing the payment was accepted. Therefore, our justification is secured (Romans 4:25)
  
• Sunday is coming shows us the hope that the resurrection provided, showing that death is no longer final for those in Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:54—57 reveals what it means that "death is swallowed up in victory." The resurrection turns fear of death into confident hope.
• 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that,“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” Resurrection isn’t only future—it changes life now. Sunday is coming anticipates the new spiritual life that has already broken into the present, available to all who trust in Christ's death and resurrection for the forgiveness of sin.
• Sunday is coming is a reminder that Jesus is not a memory of a King of who lived and died. He is a living King who conquered death and who reigns forever. He died, but He is alive forevermore (Revelation 1:18).
• Hope is guaranteed for believers because Sunday came...Good Friday was not the end of the story. The resurrection produces a living, active hope—not wishful thinking but certainty grounded in a risen Savior (1 Peter 1:3).

implications for today

“Sunday is coming” is not just a hopeful phrase for Easter—it is a radical way of seeing reality. It means the worst things in life are never the final things. If Jesus truly walked out of the grave, then nothing in your life—no failure, no sin, no regret, no loss, no fear—has the authority to write the last chapter over you except Him. We often live as if certain things are permanent: a pattern of sin we’ve normalized, a season of grief we assume will never lift, a mistake we keep replaying, or a fear we quietly obey. But “Sunday is coming” declares that the tombs we’ve accepted as sealed are not sealed to God. At the same time, it exposes a tension in us: we often want resurrection power without crucifixion surrender, new life without letting go of the old one, victory without obedience. Yet the empty tomb exists because Jesus first went through the cross.

So the real question becomes whether we are living like resurrection people or whether we are living like we’re still stuck in Friday or Saturday night—still in the dark, still waiting for hope to arrive. People who believe Sunday has come live differently. They forgive when it doesn’t make sense, they get back up after failure, they refuse to let shame define them, and they hold onto hope when circumstances argue against it. And underneath it all is this invitation: if Jesus has truly defeated death, then He doesn’t just deserve a place in our thoughts—He deserves our trust, our surrender, and our lives. “Sunday is coming” is not only something that happened in history; it is something that is still shaping the present. The stone is still rolled away, the tomb is still empty, and Jesus is still alive—and that changes everything about how we live today. Are you living in that hope?