just a little perspective

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Have you ever wondered what you would do to frighten Lazarus after he had been raised from the dead? What would you do to threaten him? Caligula said “I’m going to kill you as I’m killing all the Christians.” Lazarus doubles over in uncontrollable laugher, comes up for air, and says ‘Caligula, haven’t you heard? Death is dead.’ How do you frighten the one who has already been there and knows the one who is going to let him out?

But.. just think of stepping on shore, finding it to be heaven – of touching a hand, finding it to be God’s hand – or breathing new air, finding it to be celestial.. or to wake up in glory and finding it home. Ladies and gentlemen, your hope and mine in Christ is that one day we will be with God. One day we will be with him.

We look back on history and what do we see? Empires rising and falling, revolutions and counter-revolutions, wealth accumulated and wealth dispersed. Shakespeare has spoken of the rise and fall of great ones that ebb and flow with the moon. I heard a crazed cracked Austrian announce to the world the establishment of a German Reich that would last a thousand years. I’ve seen an Italian clown saying he was going to stop and restart the calendar with his own ascension to power. I’ve seen America wealthier and in terms of military weaponry more powerful than the rest of the world put together, so that had the American people so desired they could have outdone a Caesar or Alexander in the range and scale of their conquests.

Hitler and Mussolini are dead and remembered only in infamy. Stalin is a forbidden name in the regime he helped to establish and dominate for some three decades. America is haunted by the fears of running out of the precious fuels that keep its motorways roaring and smog settling. And all of this in one lifetime, all in one lifetime, and all gone with the wind.

Behind the debris of the fallings of our solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists lies the gigantic figure of one person – because of whom – by whom – in whom – and through whom mankind may still survive, the person of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah calls Him Wonderful Counselor. Peter looked at him and said 'You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.' The apostle Paul, Saul at thiat time, in Acts chapter nine said 'What should you have me to do, Lord?' Thomas raised his hand and touched His side and said 'Be my Lord and be my God.' When Pilate looked at him and asked 'art thou the Christ?', Jesus responded with 'you have said it.' When the priest looked at him and asked 'Are you the Son of God?', Jesus responded and said 'You are right in saying that I am the Son of God.'

AMEN. Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ.

- Ravi Zacharias, quoted in Sermon Jams