What makes my belief in JESUS so special, so credible?

Questions like this have been asked countless times over the past two thousand years. Since Jesus walked the earth.

Well, here’s my answer, but it is threefold.

Remember that we are told as Believers in Jesus … “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a REASON of the hope (hope in Jesus) that is in you.” 1 Peter 3:15

Read on, please …

First of all … the empty Tomb! I do realize this Fact is disputed today by many (even some so-called Bible scholars.) For example, Mark 12:18 mentions “the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection.”

I accept (and believe) without question Scriptures such as: “He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” Matthew 28:6, an angel to a group of women seeking Jesus, having come to His tomb. A by-then empty tomb!

Second of which … not only the empty Tomb, but the fact that the eyewitnesses of that empty Tomb were (and did) willingly die for that Truth, that Fact!

Yes, every single Disciple (except possibly John) was killed (martyred) for his belief in the “once dead but now alive” JESUS! Had any one of them simple denied that Jesus was alive, was the Messiah, was God .,.. he would have been spared, allowed to live! (I do not believe these men would have died for a lie, something they knew to be a farce!) “Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” Acts 12:1-2, written by Luke the historian.

Now, reason number three … this Jesus of Whom I speak (the Crucified, Buried but now Resurrected Son of God) … lives in my heart! I know Him personally! I truly believe I talk with him daily! I am positive that he is (alive) in Heaven today, sitting at the Right Hand of His Father there … praying for me as I try to live a Biblical lifestyle day after day.

Wow!

I concur with Paul the Apostle concerning the living Jesus: “For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him.” 2 Timothy 1:12

In review …

Reason one … because the Tomb (even to this day, over 2,000 years later) is empty!

Reason two … because the Disciples who KNEW Jesus to be a resurrected Saviour were all willing to die for that faith! And cruel, painful deaths at that.

Reason three … because Jesus lives in my heart this morning! I fellowship with Him consistently. He is a “Hands-on” Lord!

Oh, this too … “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36

Heaven, not Hell awaits me!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

In closing … how can a man or woman (or young person) be saved?

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:9-10

Praise the Lord!

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