Matthew
28:6-7 “He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where
the Lord lay. And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the
dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him.
Behold, I have told you.” NKJV
The Bible for some people is just a great book
written with a lot of wonderful stories in it that have made for some good
entertainment at the movies and on television. Other people view the Bible as a
book with very good proverbs or principles that one can govern their lives with
in order to live a successful life down here on the earth. Sadly there are some
who claim to believe the Bible, but their purpose is to use this book to gain
earthly wealth by giving carnal people what they want to hear from this book about
living a great and prosperous life on earth and so they appeal to the emotions
and fear in people and use great swelling words flattering people to gain
financial advantage with them and build their own earthly kingdom and not the
spiritual Kingdom of God. Also there are some who flat out believe this book
the Bible is only a book of lies written through the mind of men to instill
fear in people about @#!*% so that they could lord over them and also gain
political, social, and financial advantage over people. Lastly and gloriously
there is a tiny remnant of humanity that believes every word of this book the
Bible to be the only truth directly from the mind of the One True God and it is
because they have encountered the Man this book is written about and the One
and only Man to rise or come back from the dead, Jesus Christ.
Death is the certain conclusion for every human life
(as we documented in the article entitled, “Jesus Explains Man’s Death and
Resurrection”) though most human beings try to block out the thought and so as
to make death disappear. However, no one can make that reality disappear no
matter how much money they have or how much they eat healthy foods or how much they
exercise their body or how much of the best earthly medicine they ingest into
their body. The first man Adam sinned against God and in so doing he passed
that very same corrupt sin nature to every human being that came from him. All
human beings are the product of this one man and his wife Eve.
God told Adam earlier that he would die immediately
if he rebelled and so he died instantly spiritually (meaning he was separated from
fellowship with God) and later he died physically. We are all made from one
blood and so we all have the disease of sin which leads to death as the
Scripture says, “The soul that sins shall surely die.” Therefore, if death is
certain for every person, then what happens after death is the most important
question to be asked and answered by every living soul. Some will say well
after death there is nothing and the person no longer exist. Others will say
that the person goes on to a better place and some will say all will go to
Heaven if they lived a good life. Well, the Bible says, “It is appointed unto
man once to die and after that the judgment.” The Bible also says, “There is
none good no not one.” History clearly gives evidence of the Man Jesus Christ
to have lived in the region of Galilee as the Scriptures testify of Him. The human
arguments arise about who He was and what He did during the course of His life.
Some continue to believe the Man Jesus was a good Man and a great Teacher and
nothing more. Jesus too many was just a man and not at all the God-Man that His
followers claim Him to be.
But God did intervene into man’s sin dilemma with
His great and awesome love for man though man rebelled against Him. God because
He loves man so much did become a Man in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Jesus Christ then lived a perfect sinless life for 331/2 years and laid down
His life in death as a sacrifice or substitute for every sinful person to
receive His sin payment and thereby making a way for every person to get back
into fellowship with God. Jesus died on the cross shedding His blood and it is
His blood that cleanses the sinners heart from wicked works to serve the living
God. Finally, Jesus Christ proved that He was not just man but the God-Man by
becoming the first ever human being to be resurrected from the dead and in so
doing He has defeated death for every soul that comes to Him with a contrite
and broken heart over their sin. Once the person cries out to God acknowledging
themselves to be a sinner and turns from their sin to Jesus Christ, then at
that moment the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus Christ body from death
immediately raises their dead spirit (disconnected from God) to life in Christ
and they receive Resurrection Life and are forever made new creatures in Christ
Jesus. See article entitled "The Highest Form of Life",
John
11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and
the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever
lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?” NKJV
Acts
10:39-41 And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of
the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. Him God
raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, not to all the people, but
to witnesses chosen before by God, even to us who ate and drank with Him
after He arose from the dead. NKJV
Acts
13:29-30 Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they
took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb. But God
raised Him from the dead. NKJV
Acts
17:30-31 “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all
men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge
the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given
assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” NKJV
Acts
26:23 “That the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from
the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the
Gentiles.” NKJV
Romans
1:3-4 Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of
David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God
with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the
dead. NKJV
Romans
8:10-11 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin,
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of
Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in
you. NKJV
Romans
10:9 That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your
heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. NKJV
1
Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I
preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also
you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you --- unless
you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also
received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that
He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the
Scriptures. NKJV
1
Corinthians 15:20-22 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came
death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. NKJV
Colossians
1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. NKJV
Colossians
2:11-12 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of
Christ, buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him
through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. NKJV
1
Thessalonians 1:9-10 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of
entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living
and true God, and to wait for His Son from Heaven, whom He raised from the
dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. NKJV
Hebrews
13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead,
that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you
what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be
glory forever and ever. Amen. NKJV
1
Peter 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are
kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in
the last time. NKJV
“On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the
pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity--the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Henry Drummond 1851-1897
“Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow,
in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we
with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.”
Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892
“Let us consider this settled, that no one has made
progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death
and final resurrection.” John Calvin 1509-1564
“The truth of the resurrection gives life to every
other area of gospel truth. The resurrection is the pivot on which all of
Christianity turns and without which none of the other truths would much matter.
Without the resurrection, Christianity would be so much wishful thinking,
taking its place alongside all other human philosophy and religious
speculation.” John MacArthur
“In his life, Christ is an example, showing us how
to live; in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in his
resurrection, a conqueror; in his ascension, a king; in his intercession, a
high priest.”
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books
alone but in every leaf of springtime.” Martin Luther 1483-1546
“The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and
strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought
to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet
omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself.”
Alexander MacLaren 1826-1910
If
you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and His amazing healing power, pray this
from your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ (you speaking directly to Him), Dear
Lord Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and I need Your forgiveness. I
believe You shed Your Blood and died for my sins. I believe that You rose from
the dead proving that You alone are God. I repent of my sins. I want to turn
from my sins. I ask You Dear Lord Jesus to come into my heart and take control
of my life. I want You to be my Lord, Savior, and my God. Amen...
Sincerely in Christ,
Clifford D. Tate, Sr.
Author of “Silent Assassins of the Soul - Are you
Broken by Pornography and Masturbation? You can be Restored by the Lord Jesus
Christ and brought into Deliverance, Freedom, and Victory! A Guide for Men and
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