The calendar is dated in both directions from His birth. He performed miracles and transformed lives during His thirty-three year life on earth. His followers spread His teachings around the world and for centuries, people, wise and sincere, have found His cause worth living for, and worth dying for. He has accomplished what no mere man could accomplish. He is God in the flesh—Jesus, the same God who created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them! But perhaps it all sounds like a fairytale to you—you who choose to exercise faith in a cosmic explosion billions and billions of years ago which unscrupulous theorists have deemed responsible for every form of life that inhabits the earth, and the perfectly ordered universe that sustains it.
This is the week that sets biblical Christianity apart from all other faiths! This is the week we remember the Passion of Jesus, and Sunday is the day we remember His Resurrection from the dead. Those of us who have discovered God’s Book (the Bible), who have placed our faith and dependence upon Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sin, now serve a risen, living Savior who has promised to return to earth at the end of this age to receive us to Himself. But this sounds like the last, sensational lines of a play with a complex story line.
The truth contained above is indeed an over-the-top conclusion to the story of time and eternity as revealed by God in His Word. It is quite unbelievable to the natural mind without the illumination that comes from hearing the whole story. The story begins with, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)” and ends with, “He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (Revelation 22:20-21)” The truth that lies between these two passages makes believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sin, the logical thing to do.
But why take my word for it when you can read it all for yourself! “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2Timothy 3:16)”