Isa
25:7-8 (ESV) And he will swallow up on this mountain
the
covering that is cast over all peoples,
the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death forever;
and the
Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and the
reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
NOTE: This is our hope and a picture of the future.
Death will be destroyed. We won't age or grow old. We won't suffer from
disease. We won't lose loved family members and friends to death. The tears
will be wiped away. We won't be laughed at because of our belief, rather we
will be vindicated. We have a blessed future and a hope that the world does not
have. The world replies that ours does not exist, that it is a figment of our
imagination--that we want to believe in something that does not exist. There
are two responses, 1) they have no future or hope in what they believe and 2)
the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the proof that our hope is
not in vain. The miracles stand out in history and are incomparable with any
other historical figure. The proofs of the resurrection have to be ignored (by
faith) by those who don't believe. And so they fall into the same trap they
claim Christians live in, they are choosing to believe something (Christ did
not resurrect) because they want to believe he did not exist or the
resurrection did not take place. They don't want to put their faith in Christ
for the forgiveness of their sins, and so they must, by faith, believe that he
did not rise again, and that the attesting miracles never happened. They must
argue against evidence. And so who is the illogical one?
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