What is sown is a physical body; what is raised is a spiritual body. The Natural and the Spiritual Body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. As it is written, the first man, Adam, became a living being; the last Adam has become a lifegiving spirit. But the spiritual body did not come first. Rather the natural body came first, and then the spiritual. The first man was formed from the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven. ––1 Corinthians 15:44-47
Everything we have in our experience of our existence with Christ hinges on the fact that God stepped down to earth revealing Himself through the person of Christ. He then showed us that there is an eternity ahead by ascending back into heaven. This very fact is what we Christians base our assurance on. Not our experiences, our changes, our emotions. Not on anything material, temporal, or physical.
It’s the objective historical fact that the resurrection took place and the enormous evidence that proves it. The Jewish historian Josephus wrote about it, as did Roman historians such as Pliny, Tacitus, and Suetonius.
This was the turning point in world history.
For the bewildered disciples, the sluice gates opened, the Holy Spirit entered and flooded every cavity of the disciples’ souls with His assurance and anointing for ministry.
That same Holy Spirit was not just the disciples’, but yours and mine. Basing this fact on how we feel at any particular moment defeats the historical evidence that it is true. Our Father has given us the choice to live by feeling or by fact.
Today you have a choice—every day you have a choice. Choose fact.
Father, thank You that the evidence You have provided us equals that of the disciples. We all have the same advantage.
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