Resurrection Sunday (2)

There is a simple way to prove the resurrection of Christ.

However I don’t believe it is necessary to get saved or to lead someone to Christ. All we need is John 3:16 or Romans 9:10

There are people who refuse to believe regardless. There are those who are atheist because they want to believe there is no God even in the face of common sense.

Roman’s chapter one talks about the Gospel of creation. Looking at creation should bring you to conclusion that there is a creator. Just as looking at a building brings you to the conclusion that there is a builder. That there is a designer.

The reason I say this is because there are all kinds of reasons we come up with on why we don’t share our faith and one of them on my end was well I don’t have all the Bible knowledge I need. At the moment I don’t have all the knowledge to prove the Bible is God’s word and that it’s all truth. In the First place God never asked me to do all that. He just asked me to preach the Gospel and to love Him and one another.

IF we preach the Gospel and they don’t believe then that’s on them. Its God who makes Himself real.

How can I prove the resurrection of Christ?

I watch a TV shows that deals with crime and when they want one of the criminals to flip on the other they threaten them with the full measure of the law to get them to crack.

How many heard of Watergate?

It involved a conspiracy perpetuated by the closest aides to the president of the United States—the most powerful men in America, who were intensely loyal to their president.

But one of them, John Dean, turned state’s evidence, that is, testified against Nixon, as he put it, “to save his own skin”—and he did so only two weeks after informing the president about what was really going on! The cover-up, the lie, could only be held together for two weeks, and then everybody else jumped ship to save themselves. Now, the fact is that all that those around the president were facing was embarrassment, maybe prison. Nobody’s life was at stake.

Now lets look at the Disciples of Jesus. How do we know they saw the Lord risen from the dead and were not perpetuating a hoax?

1st ) they were not facing embarrassment or political disgrace, but beatings, stoning, execution.

Peter and Paul

Paul was beheaded. Peter was crucified upside down at his request since he did not feel worthy to die in the same manner as his Lord.

Andrew

was been crucified

Thomas

he died when pierced through with the spears of four soldiers.

Matthew

It was reported he was stabbed to death

Philip

He was arrested and cruelly put to death

Bartholomew

There are various accounts of how he met his death as a martyr for the gospel.

James

The Jewish historian Josephus reported that he was stoned and then clubbed to death.

Simon

As the story goes, he ministered in Persia and was killed after refusing to sacrifice to the sun god.

Matthias

He was the apostle chosen to replace Judas. Tradition sends him to Syria with Andrew and to death by burning.

Every one of the disciples insisted, to their dying breaths, that they had physically seen Jesus bodily raised from the dead.

Don’t you think that one of those apostles would have cracked before being beheaded or stoned? That one of them would have made a deal with the authorities? None did.

Men will give their lives for something they believe to be true; they will never give their lives for something they know to be false.

The apostles could not deny Jesus, because they had seen him face to face, and they knew he had risen from the dead.

nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to maintain their faith until their last dying breath that Jesus is alive and is Lord.

Not only the Apostles but:

Mary Magdalene encountered him.

The women encountered the risen Christ.

Christ was seen by five hundred people.

Two thousand years later, nothing less than the power of the risen Christ could inspire Christians around the world to remain faithful—despite prison, torture, and death. Jesus is Lord: That’s the thrilling message of Easter. It’s a historic fact, one convincingly established by the evidence—and one you can bet your life upon.