The book of Acts is filled with words testifying to the Lord’s resurrection. Death is only a process, but resurrection is the fulfillment. For this reason the Bible always mentions the Lord’s resurrection whenever His death is spoken of. The Lord Himself repeatedly told the disciples that He would be killed, but He never stopped with merely mentioning death but always went on to add that on the third day He would be raised from the dead. Resurrection concludes death. Without death there can be no resurrection. Yet with resurrection death is passed away. “Whereof He [God] hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him [Jesus] from the dead” (Acts 17:31). The Lord wants us to believe in His resurrection. Merely believing in the death of the Lord Jesus will not result in salvation. One must believe in His resurrection in order to be saved. “Believe in thy heart that God raised Him from the dead, [and] thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9). Resurrection is an act of God. What men can see is death. If the Lord had not been raised from the dead, then people would have looked at Him as merely a man whom they had killed. But God has raised the Lord Jesus from the dead, thus showing all that “it was not possible that he should be holden of” death (Acts 2.24).
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