If you need to understand the death and resurrection of Jesus from a legal point of view, consider the following example. Humanity is accused in the cosmic court of the ultimate crime: you have murdered the Author of life. The charge is clear and our guilt is beyond dispute, but the story is about to take an unexpected turn. The first witness is called. Jesus walks into the courtroom … very much alive. The one we are accused of murdering takes the witness stand! This makes a verdict of “guilty of murder” very unlikely. This is why Paul says we were vindicated by the resurrection! You see, if the death of Jesus was the legal payment for our sin, then His death would have saved us … and his resurrection would not even have been necessary. However Paul says in 1 Cor 15:17 … if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. In other words it is not the death of Jesus that solved the sin problem, it is the resurrection. His death revealed our guilt, exposed the depravity of our own wisdom and religious philosophies. His resurrection reveals God’s stubborn refusal to give up on man, for he knows true man – man created in His image and likeness. In the resurrection God simply reverses man’s greatest evil and justifies the ungodly.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:22:14 +0000
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