It is good Christian communities commemorate resurrection Sunday once a year. Estimated 30% of nearly 8-billion world population subscribed to Christianity. But hey! How many among Christians are earnestly thinking about life beyond earth, especially when life is filled with things on earth? I sound like a nay-sayer, but that’s Jesus’ resurrection is all about-eternal life.
1 Peter 1:3-5 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Jesus’ resurrection wouldn’t have any significance to those who did not think seriously about eternity. It is a fulfillment of a new birth God has promised those who have faith and continue to hope for eternal life. Jesus is the first born to the new birth. His resurrection is the evidence of the inheritance (eternal life) well-kept in heaven for those who believes in him.
John 20:2727 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Jesus’ resurrection is not just a myth that skeptics claims it is. After he died, Lord Jesus didn’t only appear to so many witnesses, he also quashed the doubt of the doubter Thomas by showing the nail-mark of his hand. For those who believes and continue to hope till eternity will get their inheritance, for those who do not, I do hope they’ll find the truth and believe.
Does eternal life really come after death? Eternity is explained as continuity of time with no specific endpoint. It is consistent with God existed before the beginning of time in Genesis 1. When God the Father gave his only son Jesus Christ to forgive the sins of the world, it’s for the past, present, and future.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17.
“Anyone in Christ” simply means those who accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and “new creation” is in a real relationship with the Lord nurturing in eternal dimension. Thus, eternal life is a present continuing condition that one can have even while still alive, those who live in Christ.
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