Why Seek Ye the Living Among the Dead?

With my limited time this weekend, I just wanted to send out a brief note about the significance of what we celebrate on Easter. In a time when it is deemed unreasonable to think that Jesus was anything more than an ordinary man, anything more than an extraordinary teacher, or that his death was anything more than an ordinary death, it is all the more important to vigorously proclaim what is unreasonable.

Jesus was more than an ordinary man. He lived as the Son of God. He lived a perfect life, taught with the authority of a God, took upon himself our sins as part of his agonizing death on the cross, and rose from the dead three days later. All of that didn’t happen figuratively. He was dead. His spirit left his body. Three days later, it entered that body again and he was resurrected and perfected. He still lives today.

Of course these things are unreasonable. If they weren’t they wouldn’t mean anything. They wouldn’t be extraordinary. They wouldn’t be worth declaring.