Pastoral duties take priority over my regular blog this
morning. I will be officiating at the
funeral of a young man (just a few years older than me!) who quickly died of a
very aggressive cancer. As a Christian,
he is about to be buried into the ground by our “sure and certain hope of the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.” Christ’s
resurrection changes everything about both life and death. It gives believers in (“into”) Him confidence
that we will be with him, together with all the saints who have trusted in His
finished work on the cross, forever in heaven.
Of course this confidence is fulfilled on the other side of our
grave. We live, in this respect, by
faith and not by sight (Romans 8:24,25).
It so happens, however, that as Jesus died in history, his resurrection
from the dead also happened in history.
Scripture treats this centerpiece of our faith as a historical fact (1
Corinthians 15:20). And historical
research, as I will lay out in the future, solidly supports the facticity of
Christ’s resurrection. Such an amazing
reality! What happened in Christ within
time has ramifications for all of eternity.
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