The Resurrection represents the eternal and absolute triumph of
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the total defeat of his adversaries, and the
prevailing contretemps of our faith. The Apostle Paul said that, if Christ had
not resurrected, our faith would be vain. Is not the whole structure of our
beliefs established on the mystic or supernatural reality of the Resurrection?
Indeed, it is. Because of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross and His
resurrection from the tomb we have the promise of eternal life. The only
condition is based on our acceptance of that fact and belief in the Son of Man,
the Christ. If we have fought the good fight, finished the race, kept the
faith, we are a new creation. It is then that we receive the crown of
righteousness, which
the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to all who have longed for his appearing.
Though we live in
tumultuous times, wade in the toxic waters of apostasy, antitheism, and
secularism, and witness the abomination of government-sanctioned abortion, let
us as believers reveal not in this or that power, man, or ideological current
but in Divine Providence, which will once again force the sea to open wide,
move mountains and cause the whole earth to tremble if necessary to fulfill the
divine promise: The gates of
Hell shall not prevail against Her. Did not Jesus the Christ originate His
Church upon himself? Are we as children of God not his Church? Jesus is
the stone upon which, He built His Church.
One faithful witness is
worth a thousand reticent professors of Christian theology. Our faith grows by
expression. If we desire to grow in our faith, we must share it. By our words
and actions, we are called to be a witness to a lost and dying world. It is
every believer’s obligation to proclaim that Jesus is the way and the truth and
the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. By doing so, we in
spirit were there when they crucified our Lord. We were there when the stone
was rolled away.
Because He lives is reason
enough to share God's message. If reinforcement is needed as to ‘the why’ of
sharing God's word, allow me to simplify the message by using select lyrics
from a Bill and Gloria Gaither Gospel song: He came to love, heal and forgive.
He lived and died to buy my pardon. An empty grave is there to prove my Savior
lives... Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is
gone. Because I know who holds the future. And life is worth the living, just
because He lives... And then one day, I'll cross the river. I'll fight life's
final war with pain. And then, as death gives way to victory, I'll see the lights
of glory and I'll know He lives...
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