As we celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we ought to remember that there are those who hate Christ's resurrection from the dead.
In Christ's day, the Sadducees taught against the resurrection, but Christ set them straight with so powerful an answer to them from God's word that they dared not ask Him any more questions!
What telegraphed just how much the Jewish leaders would hate Christ's resurrection was their reaction to Jesus raising Lazarus from the grave. Jesus publicly displayed His power to save poor sinners from death itself, and those wicked rulers, instead of lauding Him as the long sought after Savior, plotted how they must kill Him before more people believed in Him.
This demonstrates the profound corruption that sin brings to every man's heart and mind, that we hate the very One Who has the power to deliver us from the chains of our sin and judgment.
Jesus had remarked upon this sad reality of the hearts of the lost, when He reported Abraham's prediction, that the lost wouldn't believe God's warnings about judgment even if told to them by a man who was raised from the dead.
Not only did they plot to kill Jesus, they did kill him. But having done so, they worried that He might rise again, like He had promised He would. Even the perception that Christ rose from the grave would do them great harm, for it would prove them liars and murderers, and validate Christ's gospel preaching.
And so they placed a guard on the tomb to prevent His body being taken away.
But a squad of Roman soldiers could not stop our Lord Jesus from rising from the grave that Sunday morning!
Their hatred only intensified, but Christ still lives!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
