On a eventful day, satan declared – Jesus is dead and defeated.
Three days later, God declared and demonstrated – Death is dead and defeated and Jesus is Alive.
Resurrection is the hinge on which the door of our faith pivots.
If Christ is not raised to life from death, we remain in death in our sins, and my preaching of the Gospel that snatches people from the road of darkness, destruction and death to light, liberty and life is futile.
What I believe is that Jesus the Christ (Messiah) died and Christ rose from the dead, for a God who cannot save himself from death cannot save others, and thus we remain in our sins.
Hence my faith and my preaching is NOT IN VAIN (NIV); and we are not men and women most miserable.
Points to Ponder
I beLIeVE; Do you? Are you aLIVE?
1 Cor 15:14-19
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
