Celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ – facts
An Easter Sunday Service at Golf Club will be held on Sunday, March 31, from 6am - entrance is the gate in Illovo Drive.
The Resurrection of Christ is the ONE MOST IMPORTANT belief of the entire Christian faith.
Some ask if He did rise from the dead. If He did not, what became of His body? If His enemies stole it would they have not produced it to discredit the story?
If Jesus’ friends stole it, they would have surely known they believed a lie.
One thing is certain; those who first published the story that Jesus had risen from the dead BELIEVED it to be a fact. They rested their faith, not only on the empty tomb, but on the fact that they had SEEN Jesus ALIVE after His burial; not once; not twice, but at least ten recorded times, and not alone, but in groups of two, seven, ten, eleven even five hundred.
Could it not be that Jesus was not really dead when they buried Him and that He ‘came around’ again? In that case, weak wounded and exhausted, He could scarcely have removed the heavy stone door and gotten out of the tomb.
Besides He had new powers that He had never manifested before – to appear and disappear through locked doors. The eleven, in a group, personally saw Him slowly rise from the earth, and disappear behind the clouds.
Could it not be that the resurrection was a later addition to the story
of Christ, invented years later to glorify a dead hero? It is known, from historical records outside the Scriptures, that the sect known as Christians came into existence “in the reign of Tiberius, and that the thing that brought them into existence was their belief that Jesus had risen from the dead.
The resurrection was not a later addition to the Christian faith, but the very cause and start of it.
They rested their faith, not on records, but on what they had seen with their own eyes. The records were the result of their faith, not the cause of it. Had there been no resurrection, there would have been no New Testament, and no Church.
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