The Resurrection

I was reading and thinking on this back around Easter and I began remembering a fight in the college Bible group back in the day.

Now so much is made of the cross.  Images of it everywhere.  Songs about it.  Jewelry made to represent it, etc!  And the Bible Study leader was talking about the importance of the cross.  How we know we can be forgiven and be guaranteed a new life in Heaven because of it - blah, blah, blah, blah!

But, you would have thought I had devil horns when I said, "... but isn't that the point of the empty grave?  Lots of people were crucified, perhaps millions, but only one ever came out of the grave ....."

And again, now 43 years later, I am again seeing the disjunction between what this "christian culture" says and believes, and what the Bible tells us.  Yes, the cross is the symbol of Jesus paying the ultimate price for OUR sin.  But, the empty grave is the confirmation that He was whom He said He was!  And we can now know, with utter confidence, that our sins are forgiven through Him and His resurrection out of that tomb!

1.  That empty tomb is proof that says that the death on the cross counted.
Our debt before God is PAID in FULL.
Talk is cheap, that empty tomb was His proof of whom He was.

2.  The key opening the prison called death.
Jesus overcame death - to proof He can release you from death as well.

3.  It is a seed that says there is more to come!
The cross was only the beginning.
The empty tomb proof.
Your life the witness.
Eternity awaits each of us.

4.  The witnesses were distraught and cried.
Real Christians cry.
But, we have an eternal hope now.
Physical death is not the end of us nor our loved ones.

5.  Discounts every other God.
 He did arise from the grave.
Thousands saw him.
Many ate with Him.
He walked, He talked, He built a fire, He was touched.
The proof was there!

6.  The tomb is the last will and testament left to us.
And it promises us hardship in this life.
But, overcoming and glory in Heaven!

:)