“…He shewed himself alive…by many infallible proofs…~ Acts 1:3
My elder son, Andrew, has an excellent book out on the Resurrection. During the long months he was writing it, he naturally was consumed with the subject (and has been ever since). Thus, we spent many hours together discussing this important topic.
As a result, I rediscovered a great truth I had somehow allowed to lie dormant. That truth being that everything (and I literally mean everything) depends on whether or not Christ raised from the dead. The Christian Faith stands or falls on the Resurrection. The early, first-century believers greeted one another with the words “He is risen,” not “He died.”
Those primitive Christians in the book of Acts did not get into trouble for saying Christ had died; they were persecuted for preaching that He had risen from the dead, and was alive.
This is one of my contentions with the modern-day “deeper-lifers.” Their emphasis seems to be on our dying with Christ, rather than our being raised with Him to walk in newness of life. It seems to me, some spend all their time in a graveyard, inspecting a dead corpse. They are constantly “feeling their pulse” to see if they are dead. Someone needs to inform these poor souls that dead people are not conscious of the fact that they are dead. Only life has consciousness.
To a child of God, every morning should be Easter morning.