One day Jesus told his disciples and the religious authorities, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days!” They thought He was talking about the physical temple, the building in which worship services were carried on, the one that took forty-seven years to build! He was saying that if this building was destroyed, He would raise it up again in three days. But He was talking about His bodily resurrection. He would be crucified on a cross, buried in a borrowed tomb, and three days later He literally walked out of that tomb and was seen by many people! It happened just as He said it would.
There are all sorts of lies that His resurrection was not true, but folks, the fact is, that Jesus did indeed die, but He also did indeed arise from the grave. He was seen by many witnesses who both saw and touched Him and from their eye-witness testimonies, we know they were telling the truth. Each Gospel story gives these eye-witnesses account as proof to His resurrection. And on the day of His ascension into heaven, the accounts given in the first chapter of the book of Acts and in the fifteenth chapter of Paul’s first letter to the Cornthian church, Jesus was seen by more than five hundred believers on the day He rose into Heaven.
But the main most infallible proof of His resurrection lies in the changed lives of those who believe in Him as their Savior. There was an old Swedish lady, a good and saintly woman, who, upon hearing a sermon by her pastor, began to take him to the task when the service was over. He had declared in his sermon that Jesus was a Jew and spoke the Hebrew and Aramaic languages. She told her pastor that he was wrong, and that Jesus was a Swede and spoke Swedish! The pastor condescendingly said, “My dead sister, you may have some difficulty proving that.” “None at all,” she replied. I have all the proof I need right here in my Swedish Bible! And with that, she showed him that the words of Jesus were all in Swedish!
