EASTER CELEBRATION OF THE RISEN LORD
                        "It is Christ...that is risen" Romans 8:34
                                     Edward Proffitt, Th.D.

 

On this EASTER RESERRECTION CELEBRATION Let's
think upon some thoughts of an honest and extremely capable man, Paul the Apostle. "Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain" (I Corinthians 15:12-14). Those words are not defensive, for Paul has nothing to hide. He simply says that it must be one way or the other.

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Paul is willing to debate it all in this specific area. Dismiss
the resurrection and there are no grounds for the Christian
message. Between the crucifixion and these words of the apostle there are twenty-seven years. Men were still living who had followed the whole course of the Christian Church from its proclamation. Among them were those who had seen the risen Christ.

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The Christianity preached when Paul wrote these words was the Christianity of the Day of Pentecost. It was a simple and direct encounter: it was too early for dogmatic developments or mythical additions. It was conviction by common experience with nothing added.

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Christianity does not hesitate to declare that biblical truth
requires faith in the Resurrection as the prerequisite of all
that follows. It cannot be questioned that faith in the
Resurrection of Jesus was a primary conviction of early Christian discipline. Christianity also recognizes that on the basis of faith in the Resurrection. The Christian Church was organized for the evangelizing of the world. Without the resurrection none of this would have happened.

 

The open door of the tomb, stood at the back of Peter as he stood and spoke to his hearers then and speaks to us today. In a world where terror and death are very near and very strong, faith becomes the one reasonable attitude to the mind.

 

The Resurrection makes faith possible. It says to us -- BELIEVE! You do have a Saviour, a resurrected, living and eternal Savior.

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Fanny Crosby the blind song writer, said: Christ hath risen!
Hallelujah! Friends of Jesus, dry your tears;
Through the veil of gloom and darkness, Lo, the Son of God appears!Christ hath risen! Hallelujah! He hath risen, as He said; He is now the King of Glory, and our great, exalted head.

 

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