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Halleluiah HE IS RISEN!!!!!
Jesus Christ arose, victorious over death, hell, and the grave!
He is our Risen Savior who is now at the right hand of the
Father, as our intercessor!
John 11:25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life:
he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou
this?
The resurrection is CENTRAL to the Gospel message. The resurrection
of Jesus Christ is the most significant event in ALL of human history.
When the disciples preached Jesus, they preached His death and
resurrection. The message was one of a Risen Savior, who is able to
save ALL who believe. Without the resurrection, everything else is
meaningless -- a dead Savior cannot save anyone! Notice what God's
Word says:
Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath RAISED HIM
FROM THE DEAD, thou shalt be saved.
Our Savior is not dead but ALIVE!! Hallelujah!
It was prophesied in the Old Testament how the Messiah would die and
would rise again. This is the core message of the Gospel. Mohammed is
still in his tomb. Confucius & Buddha, are still dead. They are all dead.
Only Jesus arose from the grave! Because of that, we have hope. We
have eternal life because of Jesus and what He accomplished for us at
the cross and because He arose from the grave!
In the New Testament alone, the Resurrection is mentioned over 100
times.
"The Church came into existence because of the Resurrection of Christ
Jesus. If Jesus had remained buried in the grave, the story of His life
and death would have remained buried with Him. The New Testament
is an effect of Christ's resurrection. It was the resurrection that put
heart into the disciples to go forth and tell its story." - William Evans
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