Sunday, October 20, 2024

PT-4 "The Propagation" (Matt. 28:15)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/20/2024 7:40 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                         Focus:  PT-4 “The Propagation”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                    Reference:  Matthew 28:15

 

            Message of the verse:  15 And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.”

 

            It is my desire to finish quoting the things that John MacArthur has to say about this verse, and then perhaps have some comments that I will make after that.

 

            “Matthew’s account simply but forcefully shows that an explanation but the actual bodily resurrection of Jesus contradicts the facts and offends reason.  The truth of the resurrection is so absolute that even a lie against it helps prove it.  Whether the testimony is from Jesus’ friends or His enemies, the same conclusion is inevitable.  Now other historical event is so thoroughly attested by sound evidence as is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

 

            “Simon Greenleaf, famous nineteenth-century professor of law at Harvard wrote, ‘All that Christianity asks of men…is, that they would be consistent with themselves; that they would treat its evidences as they treat the evidence of other things; and that they would try and judge its actors and witnesses, as they deal with their fellow men, when testifying to human affairs and actions, in human tribunals….The result…will be an undoubting conviction of their integrity, ability and truth’ (Testimony of the Evangelists, Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice [Grand Rapids; Baker, 1965; reprint], p.46).

 

            Paul declared, ‘If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation’ (Rom. 10:9-10).  Salvation is equal to eternal life, to deliverance from sin, and to godly hope.  Salvation determines a persons destiny in the presence of God in the glories of heaven forever.  And salvation belongs only to those who believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and who confess Him as Lord and Savior.

 

            “The hymnist Robert Lowry wrote the following beautiful lines that are sung in the popular Easter hymn ‘Christ Arose’:

 

Death cannot keep his prey,

     Jesus, My Savior!

He tore the bars away,

     Jesus, my Lord!

Up from the grave He arose,

     With a mighty triumph o’er His Foes;

He arose a victor from the dark domain,

     And He lives forever with His saints to reign.

He arose! He arose!

     Hallelujah! Christ arose!’”

 

            The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important truth in Christianity and I have had the great honor of writing about it for a number of days.  Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave there would be no Christianity at all.  The Christians hope (noun) is the resurrection of Jesus Christ for just as Christ rose from the dead the Christian’s hope is that he will rise from the dead, unless we are alive at the rapture of the Church, which my hope is that that will be soon and very soon.

 

10/20/2024 8:06 AM

 

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