Knowing God

www.the-hijacked-mind.comjohnmatthew.ministries@gmail.comThe greatest event in human history was the resurrection of Christ. The death of Christ and the resurrection of Christ split the calendar of time between those two events-BC and AD. Anno Domini, in Latin, means 'the year of our Lord.' The entire calendar we are on right now is split between these two events. So, anytime a Christian, pagan, atheist, or satanist writes the year down, they are acknowledging that Christ was resurrected that many years ago. Every time you write the date, you acknowledge the resurrection of Christ.The followers of Jesus took His blood-soaked corpse, clothed Him with hundreds of pounds of spices, and laid Him in a borrowed tomb. All day Friday and all day Saturday, the Giver of Life would lie dead. Demons who feared Him thought He was dead; it was party time in the kingdom of darkness. Politicians gloated and said, 'We silenced that troublemaker from Galilee and His boasting about an eternal kingdom. How dare this embalmed Rabbi, in the presence of the Roman Empire!' Disciples were scattered in terror, feeling defeated and delusional, haunted by the memory of a blood-soaked Savior-powerless and pathetic, naked and needy, silent and submissive-a portrait of scandal, suffering, and shame.The Roman soldiers strutted about the tomb with a Roman seal. In the eyes of the world, Rome had killed the Nazarene; they were overtaken with spasms of demonic joy. Death was still all-powerful. The grave was still a dark, gloomy, unconquered pit-but then came the rosy dawn of the third day: the third day of hope itself. The third day, the resurrection morning, would glow in the eyes of every future child of God. On the third day, the angels of heaven swooped from the patios of heaven and rolled the stone away-not to let Him out, but to let us in to see that He has risen and our sins are forgiven. On the third day, in the damp and dark tomb, the Light of the World-Jesus Christ-walked out. The empty tomb is the only place in the world where people line up for blocks to see something that isn’t there when they get there. The best news ever came from the cemetery: THE RESURRECTION!