Magician displays a white rope, and while you are watching it, suddenly and starting, it changes to red. Easy to do, but it will fool your friends.

There are few things that compare with the dazzling beauty of a freshly fallen, pure, white snow. Snow is so white that it is used as a metaphor in Isaiah 18:1 niv "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” It is hard to imagine how white it really is until you have something to compare it too.

A man looked out his window and saw a little dog bouncing and playing in the snow. What was that dingy, dog doing in his yard,” was his first thought. Then he realized it was his own little dog that he had always groomed and kept perfectly clean. The dog only looked dingy when compared to the brilliantly white snow.

Pure white, white as snow…white a symbol of purity and righteousness. How can that purity be attained? Trying really, really hard to do the right thing? Going to church? Moving away from everyone and everything that is impure—maybe like a cabin in the woods with no neighbors? No, while all these things are good, they won’t make you as white as snow.

We have all sinned, all of us. Those sins keep us from attaining the goal or hitting God’s mark of being righteous. But through the gift of God’s Son, Jesus, we can be forgiven. We can be pure, like snow.

(Show the red rope now.) Not because we earned it, but because Jesus freely gave His life so we could be saved.

This color changing rope trick is an easy to use magic trick to illustrate the salvation message. Use it for Easter or anytime you want a salvation visual.

Empty?

You will need both a crystal cube and spring flowers or silks for this trick. You can even use the small cube that comes with a silk.

(show the empty crystal box) The crystal cube is an awesome utility trick you'll want to use again and again. Not only do we carry the spring flowers, but we also have the spring money. I prefer the spring loads, but silks work well also. I use this trick everywhere I go.

I can only imagine how empty the women must have felt that morning.  The events of the past few days left them numb with pain and empty with loss. They had watched His miracles. Maybe Mary recalled the cute things He had done as a toddler or the story of His turning the water into wine-but now He was gone.

There were things they wanted to tell Him. Little things left unsaid. Little things that now they wanted desperately to say. But it was too late. Jesus was dead. There was only one thing left to be done, now that the Sabbath was past, and they were on their way to do it that early Sunday morning. It was the only thing they could do to show their love.

As they approached the tomb where Joseph laid the Messiah-- their Messiah, the conversation turned to the rock. It was huge. How would they ever move the rock? It was more than they could handle. But they quickly discovered that it was not more than God could handle. The rock had been rolled away. Sitting on the rock was an angel dressed in a brilliantly white robe.

Maybe there are things in your life that are too big for you to handle. You don't have a solution for the problems you are facing. Give them to God. Ask Him to help you. He wants to meet your needs. He wants to be with you when you feel lonely or afraid. He loves you and is listening for your voice.

Matthew 28:5-7 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.

They were frightened, shocked, stunned, but no longer empty. The tomb was empty, so that all mankind could be filled with the life of God. Because the tomb was empty and because they believed the good report they were no longer empty. They were filled--filled (produce the flowers) with joy. Jesus was alive. They saw Him die, but now He was alive. They would see Him. They would see Him soon!

Good news. It was amazing news.  They came empty and left full. His death was part of God's amazing plan. It made a way for you to be filled. Filled with His love. Filled with His joy. Filled with His life.

You can receive Jesus today. Believe on Him and receive Him as your Lord and Savior. You don't have to be empty. You don't have to try to fill that empty spot inside you with things. It won't work. It is a God sized emptiness that only He can fill. Accept God's free gift of love and He will fill that emptiness in you.

Click here to read two more crystal Cube routines. This is a trick you'll use again and again.

The 6" cube does NOT come with silks or flowers. They can be purchased separately.

God's Math

You will need Life to Death Miracle Screen; green silk; money bag or gold silk; trap; cardboard or large foam cross; 3 large nails;  (Show the Life to Death Screen with the Jesus side out.)

Because God really, really loved this world He gave it His most precious, perfect gift-His son Jesus. Jesus came to give life, not just life, but abundant life.

(Fold and open the screen using the directions that came with the screen to show the Satan side of screen. This takes a little practice, but it is sooooo worth it! Make sure you practice this move so you don't expose the load.)

 Satan came to kill, steal and destroy. (Pull trap from the load. inside the screen.) His trap was working or so it seemed to him at the time. 

 He stirred the hearts of religious leaders to jealousy, (pull the green silk out of the load inside the screen.) Yes, they were green with envy. So much so that they wanted to get rid of Jesus-permanently. 

 Then there was Judas, he was a disciple of Jesus. He was chosen by the perfect son of God to become part of Christ's elite team. He was chosen to do miracles-lay hands on the sick, heal the blind and the lame and cast out demons  through the power of God.

 But Judas wanted something else. (Pull gold silk or money bag out of load.) He wanted money! Satan gave Judas, what Judas must have thought was a brilliant idea. It was an easy, get rich quick scheme birthed in the heart of hell-betray Jesus. The priest will give you money!.

(Pull cross out) His plan worked. Jesus was dead. Hell celebrated. Nature sobbed with a great earthquake. Finally, he had defeated the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Jesus, the Son of God was dead.

 (Pull the three nails and the cross out of the load.) Satan's method of destruction-3 nails and two boards. But Satan did not understand God's math. He thought 3 nails would hold Jesus to those splintered, rough boards fashioned into a crude cross. But it took a force more powerful than nails to hold Jesus to the cross. Only love was that powerful.

 Satan didn't realize that 3 nails, plus 2 boards does not equal five. Not this time.

Let's do the math.  (Tear the bottom off the cross so you have a plus sign in one hand and a minus sign in the other)3 nails, plus 2 boards equals 5; if that were the end of the story. But it's not the end.

Something happened on that cross. Something Satan didn't anticipate. Jesus paid the penalty of sin. With His precious blood He paid  the price to take away the guilt of sin once and for all.

 So let's do the math again 3nails plus 2 boards equals 5; take away the guilt of sin equals  four (for)-given.  Satan didn't understand God's math. You see with Christ's death on the cross, He subtracted (took away) the penalty of sin. He subtracted (took away) your sickness. He subtracted (took away) your fear. He paid the debt of sin with His life, so you could go free from sin.

Satan thought a cross and 3 nails could reduce Jesus to  a zero-a nothing. Satan thought death was the end of the Son of God, but not even death could hold Jesus; because He had never sinned. Jesus broke the power of death  when He paid its penalty with the precious gift of His blood.

 This amazing feat of victory, snatched from the jaws of defeat was possible because Satan couldn't take what Jesus had already freely given. Jesus laid down his life as a substitute for mankind, because Jesus loved you so much, He laid his life down freely, He redeemed mankind from sin. 

But God's message of the cross does not end with the things he subtracted. The cross is also a place of addition. Jesus came to give...to add to your life. He came to add life and that life more abundant. He came to add peace, to add joy to add eternal life.

The message of the cross goes beyond subtraction and addition. Because Jesus never sinned death could not hold him. On the third day God raised Jesus from the dead and brought Him back to life. Think about that. Dead for three days yet God gives Him life. God is all powerful.

Only a loving, awesome God would send His precious Son to die so you could be born into His family; so multiplication could take place; so many sons could become joint heirs, enjoying the privileges that belong to a member of God's family. Now you can have Life-- abundant life. God wants you to enjoy eternal life. The God kind of life that can only comes from knowing and making Jesus Lord of your life. Receive His gift. Receive Jesus as your Savior.

The miracle screen does NOT come with silks or additional props mentioned in this routine.