Read: Acts 26:1-8

Why should it be thought
incredible by you that
God raises the dead?
-Acts 26:8

If Jesus did not rise from the dead and there is no
future day of resurrection for us, then life loses all
its meaning. If this life is all there is – just a few
years of alternate crying and laughing (mostly crying)
and then darkness – with Paul we can say, “If in this
life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men
the most pitiable” (1 Cor. 15:19).

Resurrection, however, is not an incredible,
irrational idea. We can see illustrations of
resurrection all around us in nature. For example,
Egyptian garden peas that had been buried for 3,000
years were brought out and planted on June 4, 1844.
Within a few days they had germinated and broken the
ground. Buried for 3,000 years – then resurrected.
That’s amazing!

Why then should it be thought incredible that God
should raise the dead? That was the surprised question
of Paul to King Agrippa (Acts 26:8). If God could take
some dust and breathe life into it to create a man (Gen.
2:7), why would anyone think it incredible for this same
God to raise someone from the dead?

Yes, it is most credible that Jesus would arise. It
would be incredible if after the miraculous life He
lived He had remained in the grave. Hallelujah! Christ
arose!
-M.R. De Haan, M.D.

Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes;
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever with His saints to reign. -Lowry

ONLY A LIVING SAVIOR
COULD RESCUE A DYING WORLD.

OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1999 by Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.