Resurrection and Redemption (Rom. 5:18-19)
Image from Pixabay Today especially we celebrate the physical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead. It’s important of course to understand just how we are celebrating it. We don’t celebrate the resurrection of Jesus by taking it as merely a symbol for new beginnings, nor do we take it as a religious myth. Very simply put, we are celebrating as historical fact the claim that three days after the dead body of Jesus was put in the new tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus came to life again, stood up on his own two feet, and walked out of the tomb. Now I can understand why someone who is not a Christian would not want to believe this, because if Jesus rose from the dead, it means that he is who he said he was, namely, the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mt. 16:16). It means that he is the sovereign over us. It means, as the apostle Peter put it in his sermon on the day of Pentecost, “God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye crucified, both Lord and Ch...
