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  (CROSS OF CHRIST) 7. VOICES OF THE RESURRECTION
  by A.B. Simpson
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"According to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in
Christ, when he raised him from the dead" (Eph. 1:19-20).

The first message of the resurrection is that Christ is the Son of God
and Christianity is Divine. He was "Declared to be the Son of God with
power ... by the resurrection from the dead." The one test which He
always offered in proof of His lofty claims was that He should die and
rise again. His sign was the sign of the prophet Jonah, or as He put it
at another time in another figure, "Destroy this temple, and in three
days I will raise it up." So well did His enemies understand this
challenge that they took every precaution to guard His tomb and prevent
any possible stratagem on the part of His disciples to steal Him away.
There was an ample guard, a great stone at the mouth of the tomb with
the seal of Rome upon it, which it was treason for any man to break. But
in spite of all, that Easter morning saw the sepulcher empty, the stone
rolled away and the Lord of life again among His disciples. And "after
his passion by many infallible proofs, (he was) seen of them." For forty
days He repeated the evidence of His resurrection on various occasions
and to different witnesses, until even Thomas, the most incredulous of
all, was compelled to confess, "My Lord and my God." Still later Saul of
Tarsus, the bitter enemy of Christianity, beheld in a vision the actual
form of the risen Christ, and added his testimony and the testimony of
his life of sacrifice and suffer to the witnesses of the resurrection.
So complete is the proof of this transcendent event that we have seen a
gifted lawyer completely convinced after a life of skepticism by simply
following the line of evidence which Horace Bushnell has laid out in his
volume, Nature and the Supernatural. And this gentleman has afterwards
frankly admitted that the proof of Christ\

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