{"id":33381,"date":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/jesus-is-alive\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"jesus-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"sermons","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/jesus-is-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Is Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2005\/08\/18781.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n<p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">If Jesus is\nnot alive, then what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15 is really true. It\nsays, &#8220;If Jesus be not raised from the dead &#8230; we are of all men most to\nbe pitied.&#8221; I love the way the southerners in the USA actually use that\nphrase, because they talk about things being pitiful. That describes so well\nwhat Paul was trying to communicate. If we have committed ourselves to Jesus\nand we call ourselves Christian, we believe him to be the Messiah, and we claim\nhe has been resurrected from the dead and is alive. But if that&#8217;s all mythical,\nuntrue, just a fairy story around which we&#8217;ve accumulated some things that seem\nto be practical to our lives, if it&#8217;s not in essence true, then we really are\npitiful. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I want to\nlook at the evidence of the resurrection. Not the proof of the resurrection,\nbecause until you accept the evidence, there is no such thing as proof. There&#8217;s\na distinction between the two. I can tell you that this I believe, or that I\nbelieve, and I may talk about a distinction between proof and evidence, but the\ndistinction is important. For instance, if I tell you I really believe Jesus\nhas walked from the grave alive, I can&#8217;t prove it to you, and you can&#8217;t prove\nit to me, because we were not there. And even if I had been there, and I came\nto you and said, &#8220;Look, I saw it,&#8221; you could say to me, &#8220;That\nwas just a hallucination.&#8221; We have to look the evidence. If you agree with\nthe evidence, then it can become a proof to you. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Paul&#8217;s\neyewitness account is evidence of the resurrection<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Look at 1\nCorinthians 15. It&#8217;s written by Paul, the apostle. It&#8217;s one of the earliest\nrecords of the resurrection of Jesus. The letter to the Corinthians is actually\ndated between A.D. 52 and 55. If Jesus died when he was 33 years old, what you\nhave is the epistle to the Corinthians written 20 years after the death and\nresurrection of Jesus. The significance is, you often hear the events of the\nBible were written so long after they actually took place, and a whole bunch of\nmythology developed around that writing. That is not true. He says here:\n&#8220;I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that\nChrist died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried,\nthat he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that\nhe appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to 500 brethren at\none time, most of whom are still alive.&#8221; In other words, you can go ask them\nif you care to make the journey. &#8220;Some have fallen asleep,&#8221; that is,\ndied. &#8220;Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all,\nas to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the\napostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of\nGod.&#8221; <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus\nappeared to Paul, and writing this somewhere in the region of 20 years after\nthe actual death and resurrection of Jesus. I want to whittle away at that 20\nyears. For instance, Paul says in verse 1, &#8220;I would remind you, brethren,\nin what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received&#8221; Paul has\nalready been to Corinth. He&#8217;s now writing to them what he had already preached\nto them some five years earlier. Not all scholars agree that everything bearing\nPaul&#8217;s name was written by Paul in the New Testament. But all of them, even the\nmost skeptical of them, agree that Paul wrote the letter to the Corinthians,\nand that he was writing somewhere between A.D. 52 and 55. But he had already\nvisited them some five years earlier, and he&#8217;s saying, &#8220;What I&#8217;m now\nwriting, I preached to you five years ago.&#8221; What I&#8217;m doing is showing you\nthat he wrote this some 20 years after the resurrection of Jesus, but he had\nbeen to Corinth and preached it and taught it five years before that. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The other\nthing you have to do is acknowledge that Paul wasn&#8217;t converted right at the\ntime of the resurrection. I&#8217;m going to take a few years off that end. You see,\nPaul was actually converted some five years after the death and resurrection of\nJesus. Paul was absolutely committed to destroying the Christian church. He did\nnot believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Paul had been present at the execution\nof the first martyr, Stephen. And Paul was on his way to Damascus to get more\nof those so-called Christians, who believed that Jesus was alive. On that road\nto Damascus, as he was traveling to persecute the Christians there, having\nalready been present at the death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Paul\nwas yet breathing out threatenings. And he meets Jesus himself. Read that\naccount in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 9. Paul didn&#8217;t meet Jesus at the\ntime of the resurrection but some five years or so later. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">So we are\nsaying Paul actually taught the Christians face to face only 15 years after the\ndeath and resurrection of Jesus. Listen to this. Paul was not converted until\nfive years after the resurrection, so you take five years off the other end.\nNow Paul is talking to the Corinthians, when he went there to preach, only 10\nyears or so later. We know that we are talking about Paul visiting Corinth\nsomewhere in the region of 10 to 15 years later, after he had seen Jesus alive.\nPaul, who was so committed to destroying the church, who hated Christians and\nwas present at the execution of Stephen, meets Jesus, and only 15 years or so\nlater is in Corinth preaching that message. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The reason\nI&#8217;ve worked at these years so is this: You often hear the criticism that what\nis written in the Bible was written so long after the event that it&#8217;s clouded\nin myth. You can&#8217;t believe what is said. It&#8217;s just nice words with little\ntruths behind them. That is absolute scholarly rubbish. It&#8217;s not the truth.\nEven the most skeptical agree that Paul wrote to the Corinthians, and we know\nthat he was writing to them just five years after he had visited them. And then\nfrom the other end Paul didn&#8217;t meet Jesus until five years after he was dead,\nburied, and resurrected. So Paul is only recounting to the Corinthians\nsomething that happened maybe a dozen years or so after he had seen it and\nexperienced Jesus alive. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Do you\nrealize how fleeting 12 years is? Can you remember where you were and what you\nwere doing the moment you heard John F. Kennedy was assassinated? I can. I\nremember to this moment where I was and what I was doing. You know how long ago\nthat was? It was over 20 years. Some of you are just a little older than I am.\nLet me ask you another question. Can you remember where you were and what you\nwere doing the day you heard Pearl Harbor had been bombed? That was over 40\nyears ago, but you can remember where you were and what you were doing just as\nI can. Paul is writing to Corinth only 12 years after the life-changing\nexperience of meeting Jesus. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Paul&#8217;s\ntransformation is evidence of the resurrection<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Paul hated\nJesus. He hated the Christians. He was persecuting them. This wasn&#8217;t some\nwishful thinking. What could have turned him around other than, as he writes to\nCorinth, that he met Jesus alive as one born out of due time, one not even fit\nto be called a Christian or a follower of Christ because he himself had\npersecuted the church? This isn&#8217;t proof. It&#8217;s evidence you can take seriously.\nScholars have checked this out, and you can check the evidence yourself. It&#8217;s\nnot some myth. Paul, committed to the destruction of the Christian church,\nmeets Jesus, and gets converted dramatically. So when he gets to Damascus all\nthe Jewish folks and Pharisees are there waiting to greet their hero and\npersecute the Christians. But Paul now believes Jesus is the Messiah. And they\nare somewhat ticked, to put it mildly. While they&#8217;re waiting to greet him,\ntheir champion who is putting down this Christian mythology, they hear that\nPaul is now saying Jesus is alive. Some of the chaps there in Damascus\ncommitted themselves to not eat or drink until they had killed Paul. They\ndidn&#8217;t get him. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Would you\nnot think that if this great antagonist of Christianity&#8212;this person who had so\nopposed the Christians that he was standing by at the slaughter of the first\nChristian missionary and had been there holding their coats while they stoned\nStephen to death&#8212;when he said he had seen Jesus alive, all those persecuting\nthe Christians would say, &#8220;If Saul of Tarsus thinks Jesus is alive, maybe\nwe had better reevaluate our own position.&#8221; Would you not think they&#8217;d say\nthat? Except that&#8217;s not how folks respond. They were so antagonized, they took\nafter Saul of Tarsus making a vow not to eat or drink until they put him to\ndeath. But it&#8217;s the same Saul of Tarsus who is now writing to Corinth, after he\nhas already visited with them a brief period of time before, telling them about\nthis Jesus. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Christians\nrisking their lives is evidence of the resurrection<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">I want to\nattack some of the theories of those who reject the Christian faith on the\nbasis that the resurrection of Jesus was some mythological story put together\nby bereaved followers. For instance, one is called the swoon theory. It&#8217;s that\nJesus, when he took that wine up on the cross, was drugged. And even though\nhe&#8217;d been half beaten to death already, nailed through his hands and feet,\nspeared through his side, torn off the cross, and stuck in a stone cold tomb,\nthey say he survived it, having been fed on the cross some kind of drug that\ncaused his heart to go down to next to no beat, so they thought he was dead.\nSuppose that was true. He spent three nights in a stone cold tomb. That\nprobably would have wiped him out. But suppose he survived that. And somebody\ncame and rolled the stone away and stole his body, they stole out the living\nJesus, who revived afterwards. Do you think those who stole the body, because\nthey wanted to bury it some other way, would have been convinced if this\nJesus&#8212;bedraggled, beat up, half dead, obviously only human&#8212;do you think that\nwould have convinced them he was the Messiah? Does it make sense to you that\nthose folks would have then gone to death for what they knew not to be the\ntruth, namely, that he&#8217;d been dead and resurrected? They knew he&#8217;d been drugged\nbecause they drugged him with the wine. Do you think it makes sense that they then\nwould have risked their lives, all but a couple of them executed brutally, in\norder to keep alive some mythological story that Jesus really walked from the\ngrave alive? That doesn&#8217;t even make sense. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The absence\nof a body is evidence of the resurrection<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Let me tell\nyou something else that doesn&#8217;t make sense. What did they do with Jesus? Do you\nthink they sent him off to India? Exported him to England? What did they do\nwith him? Where did he go? There are some other theories. There&#8217;s the theory\nthat the body was stolen, first of all by the Pharisees. That you can\nunderstand. They&#8217;d heard he&#8217;d promised he would be resurrected from the dead,\nso they thought they were going to make sure he didn&#8217;t. They stole the body to\nbe sure nothing happened to it. But once the word got out as if his disciples\nwere misrepresenting that and saying, &#8220;Look, his body&#8217;s gone. It&#8217;s not in\nthe tomb anymore. He walked from the grave alive. He said he would&#8221; what\ndo you think the Pharisees would have done immediately? They would have come\nback with the body and said, &#8220;Poppycock. Here it is. It&#8217;s dead.&#8221; They\ndidn&#8217;t do that. They couldn&#8217;t come up with the body. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to\nthink of his own disciples, who were the other people who may have stolen the\nbody, then suffering death on account of a lie and a myth they were trying to\nperpetrate. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">Jesus&#8217;\nappearance to 500 followers is evidence of the resurrection<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">You\nsometimes hear it said that there was a hallucination; that they were so bereft\nof this Jesus, who was dead and buried, they hallucinated he&#8217;d come back from\nthe grave. You go check it out with your favorite psychiatrist, and ask him\nwhether you can get mass hallucination. In the Scripture, he didn&#8217;t appear to\npeople one at a time, so it could be written off as an individual\nhallucination. He appeared to all the disciples. He appeared to 500 brethren at\nonce. Not a hallucination, a real live Jesus. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <strong>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The\ngravesite is evidence of the resurrection<\/span>\n      <\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">There was no\nworship at the gravesite. We&#8217;ve recently gone through the whole business of\nJames Dean, with people going to his gravesite or the place where he was\nkilled. It wasn&#8217;t until years afterwards that they came to the gravesite of\nJesus. They didn&#8217;t go to the gravesite, because he wasn&#8217;t there. They weren&#8217;t\nhanging around putting flowers there. He was gone, and they knew where he was.\nHe was alive and he appeared to them on many occasions with many proofs. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">The last\nthing I want to tell you is this: It was James, the brother of our Lord, who\nbecame the bishop in Jerusalem. Do you know the most difficult people to\nconvince in your life? It&#8217;s your family. It was James, the brother of Jesus,\nwho became the leader of the church in Jerusalem. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\">So there&#8217;s\nthe evidence. No proof, evidence. You check out that evidence. <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      <em>\n        <span style=\"\" class=\"\">John Guest\nis pastor of Christ Church at Grove Farm in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. His books\ninclude<\/span>\n      <\/em>\n      <span style=\"\" class=\"\"> Finding\nIntimacy with God <em>(Baker, 1992).<\/em><\/span>\n    <\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[306],"tax_ctp_authors":[2006],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_field_guide_subcategory":[],"tax_ctp_field_guides":[],"tax_ctp_format":[170],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[412],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_sermon_series":[],"tax_ctp_tags":[3478,3839,3933,4830],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-33381","sermons","type-sermons","status-publish","hentry","tax_ctp_authors-john-guest","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-belief","tax_ctp_tags-easter","tax_ctp_tags-faith","tax_ctp_tags-resurrection-of-christ"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jesus Is Alive - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermons\/jesus-is-alive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus Is Alive - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If Jesus is not alive, then what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15 is really true. 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