I Once Was
Dead!
"I was dead, and now look,
I am alive for ever and ever!"
Revelation 1: 18
British pastor Richard Bewes said that during the
years before Jesus arrived on earth, the world’s
greatest philosophers had debated issues of life
and death.
“Then came the message of the resurrection
of Jesus,” wrote Bewes in his book,
The Resurrection: Fact or Fiction.
“If it had been a whispered legend of some unknown
person living in Palestine, it might have remained an
interesting after-dinner topic of conversation for a while.
But here was far more than a story in an ancient book.
But people were completely transformed in outlook."
There’s no way to overestimate joy, praise, worship,
adoration, and victory that floods our lives
because
of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Because of His
resurrection, we can worship Him.
Take a moment and repeat the words of
Jesus out loud, sensing their wonder:
“I was dead, and now look, I am alive
forever and ever!”
"In the first century, there were no media at
all. If Jesus Christ had not, clearly and with
out doubt, been raised bodily from the
grave,
we would have never heard of him."
Richard Bewes