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The Resurrection ٠ 103 By the way, I think those two questions Saul asked on this occasion are the two great questions of every Christian: “Who art Thou Lord; that is, Who is Jesus, and what would You have me to do?” As a believer, those are the two big questions in life to ask the living Lord Jesus. You will spend the rest of your life finding the answers to those questions: Who are you, Jesus, and Jesus, what do You want me to do? When you find the answers to those two questions, you’ll find an effective and fruitful Christian life. Jesus found Paul dead and left him alive. Several months ago you remember reading in the newspaper and seeing on television the tragic story of the mass suicide of the Heaven’s Gate cult. Thirty-nine people in California committed suicide. They dressed themselves in black and put on brand new Nike shoes. Their bodies, all except for the last two individuals who completed the process for everyone else, were covered with purple cloth. They were followers of a man named Marshall Applewhite. He had an interesting life. He had problems with homosexuality. He had been a professor at several schools. He had been in a psychiatric hospital for a period of time where he met the woman for whom he left his family. They established a cult, the Heaven’s Gate cult. It was founded upon a mixture of obscure passages in the Bible and New Age philosophy. Thirty-eight people followed him in suicide. He had a “gospel.” Applewhite had a “gospel.” He had an “answer” for the sin problem. His “answer” for the sin problem was castration. He had an “answer” for the death problem. His “answer” for the death problem was suicide. He had a “gospel of salvation.” His “gospel of salvation” was wrapped up in a theory about a spaceship hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet. Now, what is a comet? A comet is just a ball of liquid gas and dirt. Applewhite had a “gospel of salvation” wrapped up in a dirty snowball. Applewhite found people alive and left them dead. Jesus finds people dead and He leaves them alive. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a resurrection gospel that brings us back to life from the deadness of our sin. We have a gospel that promises us eternal life beyond the reality of our death. Everybody who meets Jesus is changed for the better. I was a nine year old boy sitting on the second row in a church service on a Sunday night. Our preacher was preaching and I don’t remember a thing in the world he said. But I do remember that the lights from the building reflected off his glasses while tears rolled down his cheeks as he faithfully preached the gospel of Christ. That night while I was sitting there as a nine year old boy, Someone came walking in that building with a crown on His head and a cross on His back. He stopped right at my pew and said to me, “Young man, what can I do for you?” I said, “Oh, Sir, do for me that which I cannot do for myself.” Then I went forward and I gave my hand to the preacher and my heart to Jesus. I walked out of that building that night a changed little boy. When I walked out of that building the stars all lined up in celebration march. The branches of the trees were waving their hands as a welcome as I walked out. When I walked out I could have well been singing, “Because He lives I can face tomorrow. Because He lives all fear is gone because I know, I know He holds the future.” Ladies and gentlemen, that’s the Good News we have to preach. It is the Good News of the crucifixion, that Christ died and He was buried. It is the Good News of the resurrection. He arose again, and He was seen, and He will still be seen to this very day. What a gospel! I’m a full gospel preacher and I hope you are, too! .
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