"Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?"
Acts 26:8
How is it possible that men should doubt the resurrection from the dead? It is far more incredible that there should be no resurrection. The surprised question of Paul to King Agrippa was, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" If there be no resurrection, then life loses all its meaning; it becomes a hollow mockery. Then God who created us is a God of caprice and sadism. Is this life all? Just a few years of alternate crying and laughing - mostly crying - and then darkness? Then with Paul we can say, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." But it should not be incredible, for things all around us remind us of resurrection. The buds on the trees, the flowers in the garden, the emerging life after a long winter of inactivity - all proclaim the resurrection.
In an ancient tomb in France, buried under tons of debris, archaeologists found flower seeds which had been there for two thousand years! The explorer took the seeds and planted them and they grew. Egyptian garden peas which had been buried for three thousand years were brought out and planted on the fourth of June, 1844. Within a few days they had germinated and broken the ground. Buried 3000 years - then resurrected. Why then should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead? If God could cause a lump of clay to become alive at the creation of man, why then think it incredible for this same God to bring a resurrection from the dead? Yes, it would be most incredible that after the life He lived Jesus should remain in death. Hallelujah! Christ arose!
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