BLESSINGS OF THE CROSS - DAY 27
He is risen from the dead . . .Come, see where his body was
lying.” MATTHEW 2 8 : 6 (NLT )
Following Christ demands faith, but not
blind faith. “Come and see,” the angel invites. Shall we?
Take a look at the vacated tomb. Did you know the
opponents of Christ never challenged its vacancy? No
Pharisee or Roman soldier ever led a contingent back to
the burial site and declared, “The angel was wrong. The
body is here. It was all a rumor.”
They would have if they could have. Within weeks
disciples occupied every Jerusalem street corner, announcing
a risen Christ. What quicker way for the enemies of
the church to shut them up than to produce a cold and
lifeless body? But they had no cadaver to display.
Helps explain the Jerusalem revival. When the
apostles argued for the empty tomb, the people looked
to the Pharisees for a rebuttal. But they had none to give.
As A.M. Fairbairn put it long ago, “The silence of the
Jews is as eloquent as the speech of the Christians!”
M A X L U C A D O
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