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THE
DECLARATION OF THE RESURRECTION
The truth about the death, burial, and resurrection of
Christ is at the very heart of New Testament Christianity. Paul’s statement in the Scripture reveals
just how foundational these matters are (I Cor.
15:1-4). On the first day of each
week, as Christians gather around the Table of the Lord, we commemorate
Christ’s death and burial. The fact
that Christians assemble every Sunday is a testimony to the resurrected
Christ. What does this great event
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A CLOSED GARDEN AND AN OPEN GATE
Perhaps you have not thought of the matter previously, but
as you begin to read the Bible, you soon learn of a garden God prepared for
man. However, man quickly loses the
benefit bestowed upon him due to sin and is cast out of the Garden of
Eden. “Therefore, the Lord God sent
him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was
taken. So he drove out the man; and
he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword
which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life” (Gen. 3:
23,24). Man was created a moral
being with the power of choice, which he soon exercised to disobey
God. As it happened, the steps in
this spiritual spiral downward included: 1) unbelief, 2) disobedience, 3)
guilt, 4) banishment from God, and 5) death. In this way sin came into the world and
in the same way is perpetuated today.
Man simply listened to an alien influence and set up his own will
against the will of God. The fact of
the closed garden is the common experience of mankind. Every responsible person knows…
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WHAT THOMAS MISSED
John 20:19-29
The parallel passage to our text is Luke 24:36-49. In these
verses we find the faithful apostles gathered on the evening of the first day
of the week, and as He had promised, Jesus was there among them. One of the apostles, who should have been
there, was missing. Where was
Thomas?
We do not know much about Thomas. You will recall the conversation Jesus
had with His disciples in John 14, in which He prepared them for His
departure by stating, “where I go you know, and the way you know."(vs.
4) Thomas had asked, “How can we
know the way?” He really did not
want more information, but he was offering an excuse (see John 14:4,
5). When the disciples learned Jesus
planned to go to Jerusalem and knowing He would face great opposition from
the Jewish leaders, Thomas told the others “let us also go that we may die
with him” (John 11:16). Of course,
he became famous as the one who doubted the resurrection of Christ and
emphatically declared, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the
nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into
His side, I will not believe." (John 20:25). I have often wondered why Thomas was not
present when the Lord appeared to the apostles. Was he despondent over the death of
Christ? It is certain he did not
expect Jesus to be assembled with the disciples that evening. Think for moment what Thomas missed that
Sunday night.
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