The resurrection

What did our Lord's resurrection from the dead accomplish?

First of all, there were immediate results. It silenced those who had ridiculed His claims, and struck terror into their hearts. It fulfilled the prophecies which predicted Christ's death. It encouraged His followers, making cowards bold, turning their fear into faith, their sorrow into joy and their despair into victory.

There were also long range results. Our Lord's resurrection is a warning to unbelievers:

…because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead (Acts 17:31).

For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son (Jn 5:22).

And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead (Acts 10:42).

But to believers, Christ's resurrection from the dead assures us that our debt of sin has been fully paid (Rom 4:25; 5:1), gives us a living Savior to help us in our daily walk (Heb 7:25; Titus 2:11-12) and promises us our own resurrection someday:

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus (I Thes 4:14).

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (I Pet. 1:3).

If you haven't yet placed your faith in our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and what He accomplished for us on the cross, I urge you to do so now. Our lives on this earth are but fleeting moments, and none of us know how much time we have left. When your time here is over, will you be able to say you are among the believers?

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life (Jn 3:16).