6 o'clock news

Jesus said that He was the Resurrection and the life...if you trusted in Him you too would have eternal life.

Saul of Tarsusl...a man who once hated Jesus, fought against Jesus, thought Jesus was a false Messiah, killed Christians...and tried with all his might to wipe the church of Jesus off the face of the earth...met the Resurrected, glorified Jesus...as he traveled on a mission to hunt Christians down and kill them...

...he never finished that mission...

...instead the Lord sent him on a new mission...

The King of the universe made him an apostle...

...a sent one...to proclaim the "Risen" Lord and Savior...King of kings and Lord of lords...

...Jesus Christ!

This new mission would cost him everything...family, friends, job, social status, power, the honor of men...

...then why would he accept this mission?

...because he saw Jesus, in all His supreme glory, honor and power...

...and all that once seemed valuable and worthy...now seemed like a pile of trash in comparison to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul suffered greatly for his new office as Apostle...

beatings without number, continual opposition, 5 years in prison...and eventually death...

Why?

Because he met the source of all life and every blessing...Jesus Christ!!

Paul tells us something that surely hit the 6 o'clock news...for the next 2000 + years!

Jesus rose from the dead...revealed Himself to over 500 people at one time!

Add to this that the Gospel of Matthew says that when Jesus rose from the grave "many" of the Old Testament saints who had died were raised from the dead, and when into Jerusalem and appeared to "many".

Tell me that didn't turn heads...

...you had three types of witnesses.

1. You had Jesus Himself...the Resurrection and the Life...revealing Himself for 40 days after His resurrection.
2. You had over 500 eye-witnesses traveling around telling everyone that they saw the Risen Savior.
3. And you had people whose funeral you were at last week or month, walking around...their very presense proclaiming that Jesus rose from the dead and all who trusted in Him also had eternal life...body and soul.

Jesus was the first fruits of the Resurrection.

Now that is good news.

Come and listen to my sermon on the Resurrection

http://www.christcovenant.ca/audio/

Come to our church website with the above link and then click on "The truth will prevail"