September 5, 2018

Conquerors At Last

Death is no longer a one-way ticket to a hole in the ground.

Various

Ever since death became part of the human experience, humankind has searched for ways to postpone, even cheat death. But only Jesus’ death and resurrection provide the power and promise of our ultimate victory over the grave. Death is no longer a one-way ticket to a hole in the ground. In Jesus we are more than conquerors.—Editors.


As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it’s not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It’s the object of our faith—Christ’s life, death, and resurrection—that saves us.

Kevin De Young


Christ could not be held down by the bands of death. In fact, through death He was paralyzing the one who had the power of death, and He was setting His people free (Heb. 2:14, 15). What seemed to be defeat was actually victory. The Resurrection morning was Hell’s gloomiest day. Satan saw the wisdom of God and tasted defeat.

Sinclair B. Ferguson


The truth of the Resurrection gives life to every other area of gospel truth. The Resurrection is the pivot on which all of Christianity turns and without which none of the other truths would much matter. Without the Resurrection, Christianity would be so much wishful thinking, taking its place alongside all other human philosophy and religious speculation.

John Mac Arthur


At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

John Ortberg


The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and Himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring His infinite beauty.

John Piper


Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.

Charles H. Spurgeon


I didn’t become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never promised any such thing. Indeed, following Him would inevitably bring divine demotions in the eyes of the world. Rather, I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the one and only Son of God who proved His divinity by rising from the dead. That meant following Him was the most rational and logical step I could possibly take.

Lee Strobel


If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Hans Urs von Balthasar


Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.

Rick Warren


The miracle which Christ was about to perform, in raising Lazarus from the dead, would represent the resurrection of all the righteous dead. By His word and His works He declared Himself the Author of the resurrection. He who Himself was soon to die upon the cross stood with the keys of death, a conqueror of the grave, and asserted His right and power to give eternal life.

Ellen G. White1


Our waiting is not nothing. It is something—a very big something—because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

Barbara Brown Taylor


Over the rent sepulcher of Joseph Christ had proclaimed in triumph, “I am the resurrection, and the life.” These words could be spoken only by the Deity. All created beings live by the will and power of God. They are dependent recipients of the life of God. From the highest seraph to the humblest animate being, all are replenished from the Source of life. Only He who is one with God could say, I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again. In His divinity, Christ possessed the power to break the bonds of death.

Ellen G. White2


The Resurrection completes the inauguration of God’s kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven. . . . God’s new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and . . . you’re now invited to belong to it.

N. T. Wright


Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the gospel is the only hope for humanity.

Ravi Zacharias


  1. The Desire of Ages (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., 1898, 1940), p. 530.
  2. Ibid., p. 785.
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