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Because He Lives

(1Co15:12-19)

God is living (Rev1:18).

He is living in His existence and His person, and

His Word is also living (He4:16; 1Pe1:25).

While religions are vague beliefs about the existence of the divine,

The Christian faith is believing in the living Word.

While the people in the world consider "this life as their one life to live and

Put all their effort to do whatever they want to do and possess whatever they want to possess,

The Christian faith life is betting this life on the fact that God is living (1Co15:19).

The devil caused Adam, the ancestor of all men, to forget this fact and

Sin by taking the forbidden fruit in the Garden, because of which

He was banished from the Garden and all men to be led to destruction (Ge2:4-6, 24; Mt25:41).

Nevertheless the Bible records of those who bet their life on the fact, "God is living:

When warned of the judgement by a flood,

Noah and his family dedicated decades of their life building the ark (He11:7);

Abraham believed that God could raise even the dead and

Sacrificed his one and only son whom he received at the age of 100 (He11:17-19);

Moses persevered because he saw Him who is invisible and

Not fearing the king's anger he left Egypt (He11:24-27); and

David bet his youth on a stone to oppose

The giant Goliath who insulted the living God (1Sa17:26, 40).

God commanded the Israelites to build the sanctuary to in their midst (Ex25:8) so that

They would remember for generations that He is living.

Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19),

Because through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would reveal that He is the living God who is

Before Abraham was born (Jn8:58-59) for

He is the resurrection and the life (Jn11:25).

As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Bet His life on the living existence of the Father (Jn10:17-18. 12:24-25);
2) Condemned the devil who caused man to doubt the living Word of God (1Jn3:8); and
3) Redeemed the sins of men and shed His blood and gave life (Lev17:11; He9:22; 1Pe1:19).

His resurrection is the confirmation from the living Father, and

The Holy Spirit came to testify that Jesus Christ is living (Ac2:32-26, 5:30).

He lets believers know that Jesus is seated on the throne and thus

Wait patiently for His return just as He said.

The man of the Spirit is he who, like Paul,

Bets his one life on the fact that Jesus lives and

Thus willingly choosing to live a pitiful life of suffering, poverty, isolation, toil and even death or

He longs to be resurrected to life when the living Lord comes back.

O Lord,

Amen.