![]() ![]() 'Would you like to invite Jesus in? 'At that moment my mother was the most beautiful person in the whole world to me. 'Jesus said that He is standing at the door, and if you invite Him in He will come into your heart,' my mother continued. no one answered.'Ĭorrie, I know Someone who is standing at your door and knocking right now.' Was she playing a game with me? I know now that there was a preparation within my childish heart for that moment the Holy Spirit makes us ready for acceptance of Jesus Christ, of turning our life over to Him. I knocked on the make-believe door and waited. In my little girl world of fantasy, she saw that I was pretending to call on a neighbor. One day my mother was watching me play house. He was a member of the ten Boom family, it was just as easy to talk to Him as it was to carry on a conversation with my mother and father, my aunts, or my brother and sisters. Pombert quotes Corrie ten Boom, "When I was 5 years old, I learned to read I loved stories, particularly those about Jesus. In The Trial of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Jeffrey L. John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." ![]() But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name." John 1:11-12, "He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. A Message to be Receivedĭwight Watson talked about church members being involved with Jesus as opposed to our lives being revolved around Jesus. QUESTION - "What would it take for a person to die willingly for the belief that one of his family members is God?"ĪNSWER - "In the case of James, the only reasonable explanation is that Jesus appeared to him alive from the dead." 2. As the Jewish historian Josephus reports, "James was stoned to death illegally by the Sanhedrin sometime after A.D. Afterwards, James was willing to die for Jesus. John 7:5, "For neither did his brethren believe in Him." Before this appearance, James was embarrassed by Jesus. Paul - himself a persecutor of Jesus' followers that now is used to write most of the New Testament books. Three that are mentioned by name are: Peter - a fisherman changed by Jesus that became a mighty preacher of the Cross.ġ Peter 3:18, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit." In 1 Corinthians 15:5-8 the Bible records that many saw Jesus alive after His death on the cross. This gave the message life, passion, and heart. In this way Paul stressed his own participation in the gospel he had preached. "the gospel which I preached to you" - means to preach the gospel middle voice, emphasizing the subject's participation in the action. ![]() Again, without the resurrection, Christianity would be so much wishful thinking, taking its place alongside all other human philosophy and religious speculation. Just as the heart pumps life-giving blood to every part of the body, so the truth of the resurrection gives life to every other area of the gospel truth. The gospel of Easter is "Jesus is alive!" In the early church, as in many churches today, believers greeted one another on Easter Day by saying, "Christ is risen," to which the others would respond, "He is risen, indeed." James Kennedy said, "The evidence of the resurrection of Jesus Christ has been examined more carefully than the evidence for any other fact in history." It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions. The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith without it, there would be no Christianity. "Josh McDowell, a Christian apologist, said, "After more than 700 hours of studying this subject and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history." Indeed, without resurrection, there is no Christianity. Hank Hanegraaff said, "You see, without resurrection there is no hope. ![]() He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies." Lee Strobel, "The Case For Christ", said "Every single shred of evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is also evidence for my eventual resurrection." In John 11:25, "I am the resurrection and the life. ![]()
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