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1, 2006
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Christ Jesus really lived! That is one thing
that all agree upon—that this Person who claimed to
be the Son of God really lived here on earth among men.
We know where He was born: in Bethlehem of Judea, a real
town and not a mythological one.
We know where He lived for most of the years of His life:
in Nazareth, in northern Galilee.
We know many of the leaders of His time. Their names appear
in other historical writings besides the Bible: Herod the
Great, his grandson Herod Agrippa, Pontius Pilate, Tiberius
Caesar, Gamaliel, Felix and Festus.
Every history of the ancient world and every encyclopedia
records the fact that Jesus lived during the first century
of our era.
All dates of history in our calendar are now designated
by the letters B.C. and A.D.—both of which refer to
the time of the birth of Christ –not Plato, not Julius
Caesar, not Mohammed.
Christ has done more to lift and empower the ethical standards
of men than all the philosophers of Greece and Rome combined.
He is above all.
And surpassing all that, millions in each generation have
had their lives changed by the firm belief that Jesus Christ
has given to the world the perfect revelation of God, the
only gospel that does deliver from the power of sin, the
only assurance of the forgiveness of sins, and the only
positive hope of life to come.
JESUS CHRIST LIVED! AND JESUS CHRIST LIVES!
He ever lives to make intercession for those who believe
on Him. “wherefore He is able also to save them to
the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing he ever
liveth to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25.
Russ Nesbit
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