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Stirring each other up to love and good works... Heb 10:23-25.

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If there’s no resurrection, nothing else makes sense. The demands of holiness, the call to turn the other cheek, the yearning for something greater than this life has to offer—none of it makes any sense. The sinless life, astonishing teaching, unbelievable miracles, gruesome death—none of it makes sense if there’s no resurrection.<br /> <br /> Let’s open the debate about Jesus. Was He a wise and moral teacher or one of many prophets sent from God? Was He a lunatic or criminally insane? Was He consumed with a messiah complex? Everyone can have an opinion, and everyone’s opinion is equally valid.<br /> <br /> Unless there’s a resurrection.<br /> <br /> In fact, if there’s no resurrection, go home. Go fishing. Go back to doing whatever it was you were doing before. Let’s call it a day. Close the book. Mourn for a little while the dream you had of things being different. Then eat, drink, and be merry. Go ahead and slap your boss if he’s bothering you. Run your credit card debt up as high as they’ll let you. Steal something. Give in to every whim and indulge every desire.<br /> <br /> Unless there’s a resurrection.<br /> <br /> Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins, a famous trio of atheists, are right: Religion should be outlawed. It’s nothing but a source of misery and ignorance. We’re either the most lame-brained gullible fools or the victims of the most carefully guarded conspiracy theory ever concocted. They’re right in saying religious people have something desperately wrong with us; we’re sick and ought to be either cured or eradicated.<br /> <br /> Unless there’s a resurrection.<br /> <br /> All the promises, all the laws, all the waiting, all the discipline—it’s all a bunch of nonsense; they’re all just silly manmade rituals designed to keep people in their place. Keeping clean, maintaining purity, abstinence, fasting, self-control—these are just some humanly devised methods of preserving order in society.<br /> <br /> Unless there’s a resurrection.<br /> <br /> If there’s no resurrection, what in the world are we doing? We’re the most nitwitted people on the planet. Life is what you make it. It’s every man for himself. It’s dog-eat-dog out there. You get what you deserve, and you better do unto others before they can do unto you. Be friendly to those who will repay you. Forgive with strings attached. Take care of yourself first, and climb that corporate ladder by hook or crook, stepping on whomever you have to to get that brass ring (whatever that is). Whoever dies with the most toys wins.<br /> <br /> Unless there’s a resurrection.<br /> <br /> Let’s be clear: We’re not talking about a metaphorical, allegorical, symbolic resurrection here. We’re talking about a real-life, flesh-and-blood body that used to be dead but is now upright, walking, talking, and conscious. RESURRECTION!<br /> <br /> Without that, the life of Jesus doesn’t make any sense. And neither does yours. It may be an exciting read for a while, but the ending will be terrible. You die. That’s all. Your existence was nothing in the grand scheme of things. You will eventually be forgotten by history. Life is utterly meaningless. You have no hope or purpose. <br /> <br /> Unless there’s a resurrection…<br /> <br /> Dear Father, You promised the gospel beforehand through Your prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning Your Son—who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, and who was declared with power to be Your Son, according to the Spirit of holiness, by Your resurrection from the dead—Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 1:2–4)<br /> <br /> I want to know You, O Christ, and the power of Your resurrection and the fellowship of Your sufferings, being conformed to Your death, that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:10–11)<br /> <br /> Lord Jesus, Your death and resurrection are the foundation of my faith, the source of my meaning, hope and purpose, the wellspring of my salvation, the assurance of Your truth and the basis of my eternal life with You. Life without the resurrection would be a brief episode between nonexistence and oblivion. There would be no long-term, abiding, transcendent hope. Human life and history would be a tragedy of epic proportions. Without Your resurrection, Your life would have been a terrible waste of extraordinary human potential. We would still be in our sins, and there would be no real hope as we hurtle toward bodily decay and death. But thanks be to God that You were declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit.<br /> <br /> Art adapted from an image by Kevin Carden, <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ChristianPhotoshops.com%2F&amp;h=AT33dOx2YIzV7gyiDYdPPHG9dgxyj6RfVzEdo2IieLY5yvobt_Fzw5oxvHKVCibGNPil2SyGqdvWZuiB12pAdLvvq6R4GjysP8fwOk2uY5sTeBuTlrU4Lax9RhZOYMM5OrhnYFhreLdCwD5xWntgybTkRCh-HpLKC7wUfg" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy">www.ChristianPhotoshops.com</a>

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