Are You Looking for the Living Among the Dead?

He is risen! Are you alive in Christ or dead in your sin? Leave your sin in the tomb and follow Him.

April’s Awakening, Day 16—For Easter Sunday

The claims of Jesus Christ, namely his resurrection, has led me as often as I have tried to examine the evidence to believe it as a fact beyond dispute.

 —Lord Caldecote, former Lord Chief Justice of England 

I know pretty well what evidence is; and, I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.

 —Lord Lyndhurst, High Steward of Cambridge University, regarded as one of the greatest legal minds in the history of England

Indeed, taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

 —B. F. Westcott 

There are but two essential requirements: first: Has anyone cheated death and proved it? Second: Is it available to me? Here is the complete record.

Confucius’ tomb—occupied

Buddha’s tomb—occupied

Mohammed’s tomb—occupied

Jesus’ tomb—empty.

Argue as you will. There is no point in following a loser.

 —G. B. Hardy 

While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” Luke 24:4–7 NIV     

            Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross was all that was necessary to redeem us and provide the way for total forgiveness. The reconciliation between God and man was now available. Christ’s resurrection from the dead proved without question that He truly was who He said He was—the God-Man. The resurrection further proved that He had total control over not only sin, but death and all creation as well. His resurrection proved that we too, shall be resurrected from the dead in like fashion and have resurrection bodies that are eternal just as Christ Himself. He is risen! He is not in the tomb but sits at the right hand of God the Father interceding on our behalf. There is only one Living God. Put your faith and trust in Him. To chase after anything else is simply chasing after the dead.