The Significance of Resurrection
...he resurrection of Jesus, human get back to God with the cross. And once again, human are with God, they also get the gift. The resurrection tells us that Jesus is who he claimed to be. He is the son of God. If He is not, he is not able to rise from death. He said he is prefect. He was here before the beginning, the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Savior of the world. He is the way, the truth and the life. He is the only way to heaven. Jesus said,” There is no way to the Father, but by me”. Because he is the son of God, he has the power from God, which to more than enough to overcome death. In Matthew 28.18 he said, “All authority, all power, in heaven and on earth has been given to me”. And in John 10.18 Jesus said, “no one takes my life from me. I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it up again”. The Jewish and the Roman killed Jesus and he died. They sealed Jesus’ tomb and posted a military guard, but this didn’t keep Jesus in the grave. Several people have died and been raised from the dead, but none of those were raised by their own power and they all died again. Jesus raised himself by his own power. As he claimed he has the power to lay down his life and power to take that up again and he never died again. He was the first born from the dead and he will live forever. In Institute for Creation Research2, it said, “He unique bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ is clear proof that He is God, as well as man, because only God could conquer death. The great Creator became the Son of Man, that He might die for man's sin, but He also remained God and death could not hold Him. Jesus did what he promised to do”. Although he had already told his disciples he will die and rise again. The resurrection caught the disciples completely by surprise. There is no indication that they had any hope after Christ's death. In fact, when they did see him, they were frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost. It fulfills in Mark 10.34, “The Son of man will be betrayed... They will mock me and spit on me, flog me and kill me. Three days later I will rise”. If Christ was not raised, our faith means nothing, said in 1 Corinthians. 15:14. The whole of the New Testament revelation rests on this as an historical fact. From the U.S. Catholic3, ”the Resurrection is the starting point of Christian religion. Jesus didn't found the church by his ministry; the church came into being because of the Resurrection. But it is the very heart of Christian faith. Everything that Christians do, every time they pray to God through Jesus, there's the conviction that Jesus is more powerfully alive and more available to humans now than in his earthly ministry”. On the day of Pentecost, Peter argued the necessity of Christ's resurrection from the prediction in Psalm 16. In his own discourses, also, our Lord clearly prophesied his resurrection. The resurrection is a public testimony of Christ's release from his undertaking as surety, and an evidence of the Father's acceptance of his work ...