Possibility or Reality

This morning was an exceptionally challenging message from a missionary couple that is raising support to serve in Germany beginning next month.  Richard and Julia Rudolph presented to my church this question:

"Are you living as if the Resurrection is a

Possibility or Reality?"

You see, Christians all too often settle into our comfort zones and we all too often forget about the Resurrection.  But the Resurrection is part of the Good News.  Christ conquered death by rising on the third day.  I too often forget this.  1 Corinthians 15 shows us that if we are living as if the Resurrection were just a possibility, then we can "eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." type of attitude (v.32).  We are settled into our comfort zones.  We do not wish to stretch out of what we like.  But the Gospel tells us that we must.  We must do things that we do not like.  What we are not comfortable with.  Later down, verses 54b-58 state, "Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain."  Believers have this steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord swag about them, but they never use it.  

So whomever might be reading this, I want to change you with this: Are you living as if the Resurrection is just a possibility or reality?