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Six Reasons Why I Believe in the Resurrection

Words from our Pastor, Dr. Daniel C. Broadwater

Thirty-six years ago I wasn't sure what I thought about the resurrection. Could Jesus really be greater than death itself? Over the past three decades I've come to believe in the Resurrection. Here are some reasons why:

1. The resurrection is written across all creation. You can see it every new year, when winter's barren trees burst forth, budding with lovely spring flowers.

2. I've experienced too many prayers to an unseen risen Christ answered.

3. Christ Himself spoke of it (Mk.8:31; Lk.9:22; 22:46; Jn.11:25).

4. Others claim to have seen him, and I believe them (Jn.20:15-15; I Cor.15:5, 6, etc.).

5. That's what a godly person would do. He would deserve to come back from the dead, not stay dead. (Rom.6:23; Gal.3:12).

6. The Apostles suddenly changed from cowards to heroes (Mk.14:27;Acts 5:40ff). Why? Because something stupendous had happened to them - seeing the dead Christ now walking around, alive and well.

Food for the Mind

In forensic science, there is a rule, known as the Lockyear Principle, that simply stated, says "every touch leaves an impression." Many a criminal has hated the day that principle was discovered. However, many a believer has rejoiced, thanking God for the many touches of a risen Christ, who has left his Impression too many times, for us not to believe that he is alive and well, ruling from on high.

It was natural that Christ would rise from the dead. He didn't deserve to die. His death was not for what he had done wrong, but for what we have done wrong. It seems only logical that Jesus was rewarded for his thoroughly godly character. Let us give thanks that HE kept all the commandments that we, ourselves, have so often broken.

Our Risen Lord told his disciples, and he would tell you and me today: "In this world you will have trouble; but take heart, I have overcome the world."

Hallelujah! He is Risen!

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Devotional Program

February 20 - February 26, 2012

Question 57. What is the fourth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The fourth commandment is: Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do nay work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

February 27 - March 4, 2012

Question 58. What does the fourth commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The fourth commandment requires us to set apart to God the times He has established in His word - specifically one whole day out of every seven as a holy Sabbath to Him.

March 5 - March 11, 2012

Question 59. Which day of the week has God designated as the Sabbath?

Answer: Answer: From the beginning of the world until the resurrection of Christ God established the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. From that time until the end of the world the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.

March 12 - March 18, 2012

Question 60. How do we keep the Sabbath holy?

Answer: Answer: We keep the Sabbath holy by resting the whole day from worldly affairs or recreations, even ones that are lawful on other days. Except for necessary works or acts of mercy we should spend all our time publicly and privately worshipping God.

March 19 - March 25, 2012

Question 61. What does the fourth commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The fourth commandment forbids failing to do or carelessly doing what we are supposed to do. It also forbids treating the day as unholy by loafing, by doing anything in itself sinful, or by unnecessary thinking, talking about, or working on our worldly affairs or recreations.

March 26 - April 1, 2012

Question 62. What are the reasons for the fourth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The reasons for the fourth commandment are these: God allows us six days of the week to take care of out own affairs; He claims the seventh day as His own; He set the example; and He blesses the Sabbath.

April 2 - April 8, 2012

Question 63. What is the fifth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The fifth commandment is: Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

April 9 - April 15, 2012

Question 64. What does the fifth commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The fifth commandment requires us to respect and treat others, whether above, below, or equal to us, as their position or our relationship to them demands.

April 16 - April 22, 2012

Question 65. What does the fifth commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The fifth commandment forbids being disrespectful to or not treating others as their position or relationship to us demands.

April 23 - April 29, 2012

Question 66. What is the reason for the fifth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The reason for the fifth commandment is the promise of long life and prosperity, if these glorify God and are for the good of those who obey this commandment.

April 30 - May 6, 2012

Question 67. What is the sixth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The sixth commandment is: You shall not murder.

May 7 - May 13, 2012

Question 68. What does the sixth commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The sixth commandment requires making every lawful effort to preserve one's own life and the lives of others.

May 14 - May 20, 2012

Question 69. What does the sixth commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The sixth commandment forbids taking one's own life or the lives of others unjustly or doing anything that leads to suicide or murder.

May 21 - May 27, 2012

Question 70. What is the seventh commandment?

Answer: Answer: The seventh commandment is: You shall not commit adultery.

May 28 - June 3, 2012

Question 71. What does the seventh commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The seventh commandment requires us and everyone else to keep sexually pure in heart, speech, and action.

June 4 - June 10, 2012

Question 72. What does the seventh commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The seventh commandment forbids thinking, saying, or doing anything sexually impure.

June 11 - June 17, 2012

Question 73. What is the eighth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The eighth commandment is: You shall not steal.

June 18 - June 24, 2012

Question 74. What does the eighth commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The eighth commandment requires that we lawfully acquire and increase our own and others' money and possessions.

June 25 - July 1, 2012

Question 75. What does the eighth commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The eighth commandment forbids anything that either does or may unjustly take away money or possessions from us or anyone else.

July 2 - July 8, 2012

Question 76. What is the ninth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The ninth commandment is: You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

July 9 - July 15, 2012

Question 77. What does the ninth commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The ninth commandment requires us to tell the truth and to maintain and promote it and our own and others' reputations, especially when testifying.

July 16 - July 22, 2012

Question 78. What does the ninth commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The ninth commandment forbids anything that gets in the way of the truth or injures anyone's reputation.

July 23 - July 29, 2012

Question 79. What is the tenth commandment?

Answer: Answer: The tenth commandment is: You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

July 30 - August 5, 2012

Question 80. What does the tenth commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The tenth commandment requires us to be completely satisfied with our own status in life and to have a proper, loving attitude toward others and their possessions.

August 6 - August 12, 2012

Question 81. What does the tenth commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The tenth commandment forbids any dissatisfaction with what belongs to us, envy or grief at the success of others, and all improper desire for anything that belongs to someone else.

August 13 - August 19, 2012

Question 82. Can anyone perfectly keep the commandments of God?

Answer: Answer: Since the fall no ordinary man can perfectly keep the commandments of God in this life but breaks them every day in thought, word, and action.

More about our Devotional Program

January 31 - February 6, 2011

Question 1. What is man's primary purpose?

Answer: Answer: Man's primary purpose is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

February 7 - February 13, 2011

Question 2. What authority from God directs us how to glorify and enjoy Him?

Answer: Answer: The only authority for glorifying and enjoying Him is the bible, which is the word of God and is made up of the Old and New Testaments.

February 14 - February 20, 2011

Question 3. What does the bible primarily teach?

Answer: Answer: The Bible primarily teaches what man must believe about God and what God requires of man.

February 21 - February 27, 2011

Question 4. What is God?

Answer: Answer: God is a spirit, Whose being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth are infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.

February 28 - March 6, 2011

Question 5. Is there more than one God?

Answer: Answer: There is only one, the living and true God.

March 7 - March 13, 2011

Question 6. How many persons are there in the one God?

Answer: Answer: Three persons are in the one God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one God, the same in substance and equal in power and glory.

March 14 - March 20, 2011

Question 7. What are the decrees of God?

Answer: Answer: The decrees of God are His eternal plan based on the purpose of His will, by which, for His own glory, He has foreordained everything that happens.

March 21 - March 27, 2011

Question 8. How does God carry out His decrees?

Answer: Answer: God carries out His decrees in creation and providence.

March 28 - April 3, 2011

Question 9. What is creation?

Answer: Answer: Creation is God's making everything out of nothing by His powerful word in six days - and all very good.

April 4 - April 10, 2011

Question 10. How did God create man?

Answer: Answer: God created man, male and female, in His own image and in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, to rule over the other creatures.

April 11 - April 17, 2011

Question 11. What is God's providence?

Answer: Answer: God's providence is His completely holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing every creature and every action.

April 18 - April 24, 2011

Question 12. What did God's providence specifically do for man whom He created?

Answer: Answer: After the creation God made a covenant with man to give him life, if he perfectly obeyed; God told him not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or he would die.

April 25 - May 1, 2011

Question 13. Did our first parents remain as they were created?

Answer: Answer: Left to the freedom of their own wills, our first parents sinned against God and fell from their original condition.

May 2 - May 8, 2011

Question 14. What is sin?

Answer: Answer: Sin is disobeying or not conforming to God's law in any way.

Question 15. By what sin did our first parents fall from their original condition?

Answer: Answer: Our first parents' sin was eating the forbidden fruit.

May 9 - May 15, 2011

Question 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam's first disobedience?

Answer: Answer: Since the covenant was made not only for Adam but also for his natural descendants, all mankind sinned in him and fell with him in his first disobedience.

May 16 - May 22, 2011

Question 17. What happened to man in the fall?

Answer: Answer: Man fell into a condition of sin and misery.

May 23 - May 29, 2011

Question 18. What is sinful about man's fallen condition?

Answer: Answer: The sinfulness of that fallen condition is twofold. First, in what is commonly called original sin, there is the guilt of Adam's first sin with its lack of original righteousness and the corruption of his whole nature. Second are all the specific acts of disobedience that come from original sin.

May 30 - June 5, 2011

Question 19. What is the misery of man's fallen condition?

Answer: Answer: By their fall all mankind lost fellowship with God and brought His anger and curse on themselves. They are therefore subject to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

June 6 - June 12, 2011

Question 20. Did God leave all mankind to die in sin and misery?

Answer: Answer: From all eternity and merely because it pleased Him God chose some to have everlasting life. These He freed from sin and misery by a covenant of grace and brought them to salvation by a redeemer.

June 13 - June 19, 2011

Question 21. Who is the redeemer of God's chosen ones?

Answer: Answer: The only redeemer of God's chosen is the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, who became man. He was and continues to be God and man in two distinct matures and one person forever.

June 20 - June 26, 2011

Question 22. How did Christ, the Son of God, become man?

Answer: Answer: Christ, the Son of God, became man by assuming a real body and a reasoning soul. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, who gave birth to Him; yet He was sinless.

June 27 - July 3, 2011

Question 23. How is Christ our redeemer?

Answer: Answer: As our redeemer, Christ is a prophet, priest, and king in both His humiliation and His exaltation.

July 4 - July 10, 2011

Question 24. How is Christ a prophet?

Answer: Answer: As a prophet, Christ reveals the will of God to us for our salvation by His word and Spirit.

July 11 - July 17, 2011

Question 25. How is Christ a priest?

Answer: Answer: As a priest, Christ offered Himself up once as a sacrifice for us to satisfy divine justice and to reconcile us to God, and He continually intercedes for us.

July 18 - July 24, 2011

Question 26. How is Christ a king?

Answer: Answer: As a king, Christ brings us under His power, rules and defends us, and retrains and conquers all His and all our enemies.

July 25 - July 31, 2011

Question 27. How was Christ humiliated?

Answer: Answer: Christ was humiliated: by being born as a man and born into a poor family; by being made subject to the law and suffering the miseries of this life, the anger of God, and the curse of death on the cross; and by being buried and remaining under the power of death for a time.

August 1 - August 7, 2011

Question 28. How is Christ exalted?

Answer: Answer: Christ is exalted by His rising from the dead on the third day, His going up into heaven, His sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and His coming to judge the world at the last day.

August 8 - August 14, 2011

Question 29. How are we made to take part in the redemption Christ bought?

Answer: Answer: We take part in the redemption Christ bought when the Holy Spirit effectively applies it to us.

August 15 - August 21, 2011

Question 30. How does the Holy Spirit apply to us the redemption Christ bought?

Answer: Answer: The Spirit applies to us the redemption Christ bought by producing faith in us and so uniting us to Christ in our effective calling.

August 22 - August 28, 2011

Question 31. What is effective calling?

Answer: Answer: Effective calling is the work of God's Spirit, Who convinces us that we are sinful and miserable, Who enlightens our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and Who renews our wills. This is how He persuades and makes us able to receive Jesus Christ, Who is freely offered to us in the gospel.

August 29 - September 4, 2011

Question 32. What benefits do those who are effectively called share in this life?

Answer: Answer: In this life those who are effectively called share justification, adoption, sanctification, and the other benefits that either go with or come from them.

September 5 - September 11, 2011

Question 33. What is justification?

Answer: Answer: Justification is the act of God's free grace by which He pardons all our sins and accepts us as righteous in His sight. He does so only because He counts the righteousness of Christ as ours. Justification is received by faith alone.

September 12 - September 18, 2011

Question 34. What is adoption?

Answer: Answer: Adoption is the act of God's free grace by which we become His sons with all the rights and privileges of being His.

September 19 - September 25, 2011

Question 35. What is sanctification?

Answer: Answer: Sanctification is the work of God's free grace by which our whole person is made new in the image of God, and we are made more and more able to become dead to sin and alive to righteousness.

September 26 - October 2, 2011

Question 36. What benefits in this life go with or come from justification, adoption, and sanctification?

Answer: Answer: The benefits that in this life go with or come from justification, adoption, and sanctification are: the assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, and growing and persevering in grace to the end of our lives.

October 3 - October 9, 2011

Question 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ when they die?

Answer: Answer: When believers die, their souls are made perfectly holy and immediately pass into glory. Their bodies, which are still united to Christ, rest in the grace until the resurrection.

October 10 - October 16, 2011

Question 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?

Answer: Answer: At the resurrection, believers, raised in glory, will be publicly recognized and declared not guilty on the day of judgment and will be made completely happy in the full enjoyment of God forever.

October 17 - October 23, 2011

Question 39. What does God require of man?

Answer: Answer: God requires man to obey His revealed will.

October 24 - October 30, 2011

Question 40. What rules did God first reveal for man to obey?

Answer: Answer: The rules He first revealed were the moral law.

October 31 - November 6, 2011

Question 41. Where is the moral law summarized?

Answer: Answer: The moral law is summarized in the ten commandments.

November 7 - November 13, 2011

Question 42. What is the essence of the ten commandments?

Answer: Answer: The essence of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind, and to love everyone else as we love ourselves.

November 14 - November 20, 2011

Question 43. What introduces the ten commandments?

Answer: Answer: These words introduce the ten commandments: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

November 21 - November 27, 2011

Question 44. What does the introduction to the ten commandments teach us?

Answer: Answer: The introduction to the ten commandments teaches us that, because God is Lord and is our God and redeemer, we must keep all His commandments.

November 28 - December 4, 2011

Question 45. What is the first commandment?

Answer: Answer: The first commandment is: You shall have no other gods before me.

December 5 - December 11, 2011

Question 46. What does the first commandment require?

Answer: Answer: The first commandment requires us to know and recognize God as the only true God and our god, and to worship and glorify Him accordingly.

December 12 - December 18, 2011

Question 47. What does the first commandment forbid?

Answer: Answer: The first commandment forbids denying God or not worshipping and glorifying Him as the true God and our God. It also forbids giving worship and glory, which He alone deserves, to anyone or anything else.

December 19 - December 25, 2011

Question 48. What are we specifically taught in the first commandment by the words before me?

Answer: Answer: The words before me in the first commandment teach us that God, Who sees everything, notices and is very offended by the sin of having any other god.