Friday, April 14, 2006

Christ Lives...it's only logical.

I had to go and find this quote from Ronald Reagan so I could post it here today. So many people want to label Jesus as anything but what He was, God with us. Call Him whatever you may like, but He was not a prophet or a madman, He was the Son of God, come to earth to die for our sins so that we may know peace and joy throughout eternity with our Father, our Lord, our Friend in Heaven.

"Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where...is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time -- possibly to your own hometown.

A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father's shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing -- the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.

End of story? No, this uneducated, propertyless young man who...left no written word has, for 2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals; all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived -- all of them put together. How do we explain that? ...[U]nless he really was what he said he was." --Ronald Reagan

3 comments:

RC said...

Interesting quote, thank you for sharing.

--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

Great quote, brother. Read that on your blog yesterday, & it just sat & percolated at the back of my mind all afternoon. It finally reappeared in the middle of my Good Friday sermon (not a direct quote, but the essence of it, attributed to "a wise man once said" ;-} ). Funny how sometimes those bits of wisdom we pick up through the day turn out to be just what was needed to illustrate or highlight a point in a sermon!

Pray all's well with you, big guy!

Randy said...

I'm always humbled when I can participate in worship. To think that God would use me, would want to be my friend after all the days I turned away....

He is my King.