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e IfvieSScicje o r C ha s te r There are t h r e e w o r d s in the English language that present to us the most stupendous fact of history: "He is risen." It is the fact of His resurrection that gives point and purpose both to His birth and to His crucifixion. Had He not been raised from the dead there would have been no particular reason in His miraculous birth. Had He not been raised from the dead, His death would have been as the death of any ordinary man. He might have died as a glorious exam ple, to show His followers the extent to which they should be willing to go for their ideals. But His death would never have served as an atonement for sin and death; for then He Himself would have been a victim of the very thing
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from which He came to deliver us. "Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden ;and in the garden a new sepulchre . . . there laid they Jesus . . . for the sepulchre was nigh at hand." (John 19:41- 42) It appeared for a time that death and the forces of Satan were conquerors. But on that glad Easter morn, HE AROSE, for ever victorious over sin, death, and the grave ! Paul raises the academic question as to what the situation might be "if Christ be not risen. " He replies to his own ques tion by saying, "our preaching is in vain."
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The apostles and the true ministers of Jesus Christ from their generation to the present have "taught the people and preached through Jesus Christ the resurrection from the dead." Further, if Christ be not risen, "your faith is vain." This would mean that the faith of every Christian from our Lord's day to this has been built upon a false foundation. It makes little difference what type of super structure is erected; if the foundation is insecure, the super-structure is bound to topple. Paul continues, "if Christ be not risen, we are false witnesses of God." A false witness is simply a liar who unwittingly deceives ; his words cannot be trusted nor should his example be fol lowed. Paul suggests another most s o l e m n thought, "if Christ be not risen, ye are yet in your sins." Our assurance of forgiveness, our joy in being justified in the sight of God, our peace of mind and heart in Christ, our answered prayers, our bright hopes for the life to come - these all are imaginary, they are all illusions, and tlqey have be trayed the millions of every age who have held these hopes. "Ye are yet in your sins . . . we are of all men most miser able. " But, thank God, this is merely an academic question which Paul raises. For he continues with the glorious fact, "but now IS Christ risen." And, "because He lives, we too shall live" ! This, then, is the message of Easter.
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