By Marvin A. McMickle
Jesus Christ is not Savior and Lord simply because He died on Calvary. Paul says that everything hinges on the resurrection. If Christ was not raised from the dead, then our faith is in vain, our preaching is in vain and we are still in our sins. However, this is what Paul goes on to say: "Now has Christ been raised from the dead!"
John 14:19 takes this one step further when Christ declares in that verse, "And because I live you shall live also."
That is what awaits every one of us who puts our faith in Christ. We will enjoy life with God beyond death and the grave because we have a life
assurance policy that goes into effect the moment we put our faith in the power of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. We put our lives into good hands; and those hands will hold us, help us and heal us all the way through life. More importantly, those hands will also raise us from the dead on the other side of the grave. Are you in good hands?
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Do you have a life
assurance policy? Your premiums have already been paid in full by the blood of Christ that was shed on Calvary. Your pre-existing condition of sin and rebellion against the will and ways of God will not be held against you. When you take out this policy, you are not endowing somebody else who will be the beneficiary following your death. With this life
assurance policy, you become the sole beneficiary of all benefits that accrue both in this life and into the life beyond death. This is far better than anything any normal life
insurance company can offer. What Jesus was saying on the cross, and what Jesus experienced when He was raised from the dead, is that we are in good hands with God.
Let me remind you, however, that you do not have to die in order to enjoy the benefits of this life
assurance policy. God’s coverage is as good in this world as it will be in the next.
I learned that one night when I was driving up to Detroit, Mich., about 10 years ago to teach at the Ashland Theological Seminary center in that city. I was traveling along I-75 North on a Friday evening at 5:00 when I noticed the towers of a nuclear power plant with its fumes spewing into the air. I was captivated by that sight. I had never been that close to a nuclear power plant, and I wondered whether anything coming out of those two towers was hazardous to those who were breathing that air—including me.
I must have kept my eyes off the road too long because before I knew anything, my car had swerved into the concrete divider that separated north- and south-bound traffic. I tried to control the car, but it bounced off that divider and swerved back into traffic with 18-wheelers coming right at me. I skidded across three lanes of traffic on a major highway at rush hour in a car that was out of control. I then ended up smashing my car into a steel guard rail that kept me from going down an embankment that ran alongside the highway.