![]() Historians love to write about “What if this thing had not happened?” or “That thing had happened differently?” They’ve included Jesus in their “what-ifs” and looked into how history might have been different had He not died on a cross but lived to a ripe old age. The bottom line ends up as something like “your guess is as good as mine.” But one question not included in these “what-if” articles is the resurrection: “What if Jesus had not risen from the grave?” Obviously, even to raise the question is to concede the point that He is up and a-loose and around, and the secularists would die before stipulating that. It’s why Christians are filling the churches this Easter Sunday to celebrate the ever-new always-exciting reality: Christ is Risen, and we will be right along behind Him. Not long before they stopped meeting altogether, they would quit writing “Man of Galilee” and “He” in all caps.Įven the most notorious atheist, adamantly opposed even to the idea that Jesus could have risen from the dead, would concede that if indeed it did happen, it was a game-changer from that moment on. Thereafter, the few remaining followers of the Man of Galilee would form themselves into a Jesus Memorial Society. Prove that He did not rise, that His body is still lying in some grave somewhere, and you will have put a stop to the entire Christian movement. The resurrection of Jesus was Heaven’s imprimatur on Jesus’s ministry, the Father’s validation of Jesus’ every claim, eternity’s “amen” to Jesus’ promises, and convincing evidence that Jesus Christ is everything He said He was. We are free to live forever.Įverything stands or falls on whether Jesus rose from the dead that first Easter Sunday morning. ![]() The reason Christians are positively giddy about the Easter Event–the resurrection of Jesus–is that in walking out of that tomb and leaving it forever empty, He broke the stranglehold in which death had held humanity. If Jesus really did rise from the dead as Scripture claims and Christians hold, then nothing is the same and everything has changed forever. “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus” (I Thessalonians 4:14).
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