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Apples of Gold
Radio Script for May 5, 2010
“The Resurrection of the Dead”
Hello, I’m Doug Apple…with Apples of Gold.
All who are in their graves will come out.
That’s what Jesus said in John chapter five.
Verse 28 says “…a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out – those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.”
A day of resurrection is coming, and when it happens, you want to be on the right side. In verse 24 Jesus said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.”
In John 6:40 Jesus said, “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Jesus taught that there is a resurrection from the dead.
In Mark chapter 12 the Sadducees, who didn’t believe in the resurrection of the dead, asked Jesus a question about the subject, trying to trap him. Well it didn’t work. He told them they were in error because they didn’t know the Scriptures, and He finally told them, “You are badly mistaken.”
In verse 25 Jesus said, “When the dead rise…”
I hope you believe in the resurrection of the dead, because if you don’t, you are badly mistaken. It is a core belief of the Christian faith.
First of all, Jesus Himself was raised from the dead, which we celebrate every Easter. He predicted repeatedly that He would, and He did. And afterward many witnesses proclaimed that He had, indeed, risen from the dead. They saw Him, with their own eyes!
On the day of Pentecost Peter preached, “God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact.”
The book of Acts says that “with great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus…”
Listen closely to this portion of a sermon that Peter preached at the house of Cornelius. “…God raised Him from the dead on the third day and caused Him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen – by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
In Acts 13 we read a sermon by Paul. He said, “…God raised Him from the dead, and for many days He was seen by those who had traveled with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now His witnesses…”
According to Romans chapter one, Jesus’ resurrection proved a point. It says Jesus was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead.
Acts 17 says that God “commands all people everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
So God raised Jesus from the dead, and it’s important that we believe that. Romans 10:9 says, “That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Romans 4 says that Jesus was “raised to life for our justification.”
Now about the resurrection of the dead, listen to what Paul said to King Agrippa and those gathered in his courts. He said, “Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?”
God will raise the dead, and listen to this description in First Thessalonians 4. “For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.”
This teaching of the resurrection of the dead is not some peripheral doctrine. Hebrews 6 says that the resurrection of the dead is actually an elementary teaching. It’s a cornerstone of Christianity.
Paul went into great detail on the subject in First Corinthians 15. Verse 52 says “…for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” He says this perishable, natural, mortal body will be raised imperishable, spiritual and immortal.
He also said that if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Jesus Himself was not raised from the dead, our faith is in vain, and we are lost.
But the good news is that Jesus did rise from the dead, and there really is a coming resurrection for all the dead.
Jesus said it Himself. A time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out.
That time is coming. There will be a resurrection of the dead, and you want to be on the right side when it happens.
Jesus died and rose again for our justification, and now God calls everyone to repent and receive His forgiveness by believing in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and believing that God raised Him from the dead.
Then you will be ready; but ready or not, it’s coming anyway.
The main event foretold by Jesus and Peter and Paul and millions of others.
The resurrection of the dead.
Comments?
E-mail me: dougapple@wave94.com.
May God bless you today! With Apples of Gold…I’m Doug Apple.
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Why “The Arrow’s Tip”? Each morning, after diligently seeking the Lord, I write Apples of Gold. Then before I release it to the public I pray one final prayer, “Lord, send forth your arrows.” I envision Apples of Gold as arrows, tips dipped in the river of the water of life that flows from the throne of God (Rev. 22:1), sailing toward the hearts and minds of men and women around the world.
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