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Gallup poll: present religious persuasion and participation of men and women in the continental United States.
1945, 75 percent of people would have identified themselves in membership or in attendance with a church.
Today, that is now 47 percent.
In the same time frame, those who never attended would have identified themselves making up 9 percent, and today that number has risen to 30 percent.
Article in the Los Angeles Times that bore the heading “Why [America’s] Record Godlessness Is Good News for the Nation.”[2]
A cynical piece concerning the secularization of our country.
We stand on the Truth of the Gospel that Jesus Christ was Resurrected!
There are three words that define the Resurrection: incomparable, indispensible, and inescapable.
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The Resurrection is Incomparable!
He is not just resurrected like Jairus’s daughter, the widows son, or Lazarus
“Every day, some new ‘ism’ arises.
But not all ideas are of equal value.
Not every opinion can be given due weight.
Once we succumb to ‘the dictatorship of relativism,’ as it has been properly called, and attempt to survive by accommodating ourselves to every passing [idea] and fad of modernism, our ship is lost.”
And then he says, “We do not need a Church that will move with the world but a Church that will move the world.”
2. The Resurrection is Indispensible!
Christ’s Resurrection is confirmation to us that the Father has accepted His great sacrifice for us!
The Resurrection is not a theological appendix to the Crucifixion.
Nice to have, but has no real application.
Christ’s Death and Resurrection are Interwoven!
One does not exist without the other!
There is no salvation for sin, unless Jesus is Alive!
This is why Paul says, Our preaching is useless, and your faith is in vain if Christ is not raised!
Death is not natural- that’s what humanity teaches us.
Death is the result of sin.
GIVES US!
The Resurrection is Inescapable
It is inescapable because it makes clear that eternity is a reality for all of us!
The only way to deprive death of its terror, is freedom from sin.
And that is found in Christ alone.
Ricky Gervais Interview [After Life].
A scene in a graveyard where a man encounters a lady who is at the grave of her husband.
And she says to this gentleman, “Well, it is all very sad, but I would rather live missing him than to think of him living, missing me.”
Gervais says “But I’m too selfish.
I don’t believe that at all.
No.
I want to die first.
I want to die first.”
And the interviewer says, “But wait a minute,” he says.
“It’s normal to fear death.
It’s normal to fear being dead.”
To which He replies, “I don’t fear death.
I won’t know about it.
That’s the best thing about being dead: you don’t know about it.
It’s like being stupid: it’s only painful for others.”
“I don’t believe in the afterlife.
So I don’t think there’s anything to fear after death.
That’s just, you know, my belief.
You know?”
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