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APRIL 2018
scientific proof of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Yes, Jesus Christ is alive. This risen Christ,
taken by faith in all of His power and glory, is great
enough and big enough to cope with every problem
the human race faces at this hour.
First, a risen Christ is big enough to cope with
the tyranny of man over man. Not only can He save
the individual, but His power also has worldwide
implications. Isaiah 9:6 says, “The government will
be upon His shoulder.” He has not abdicated His
sovereignty in the affairs of men. He is still the Lord
of history.
He is Master of our business on Monday and
Tuesday as well as our religious life on Sunday.
Secularism is growing because we have tried to get
Him to abdicate from the realms of economics,
politics and science. We think that the world's
problems could be solved by diplomacy, by scientific
advancement, by economic progress. We have lost
the New Testament concept that envisioned a cosmic
Christ who was woven into the warp and woof of the
universe and who could not be taken out without
destroying the fabric of the whole world.
Nazism blossomed in Germany only after the
church had failed to fill the vacuum following World
War I. When the church failed to present and declare a
dynamic, living Christ, Germany was robbed of a
Savior and gave birth to a dictator. When people
reject Christ's rightful place as Lord in any nation,
tyranny takes over.
In the United States our Declaration of
Independence speaks of “life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness,” but it is the pursuit of happiness that is
guaranteed and not happiness itself. Chasing
happiness may be fun for a while, but the
entertainment of it soon wears thin.
In this country we are engaged in a debate on
the separation of church and state. But there is a sense
in which Christ cannot be separated from anything
that pertains to life, for He “is all and in all”
(Colossians 3:11). He said, “Ye call me Teacher and
Lord, and … so I am” (John 13:13). He is the Master
of every phase of our lives.
In the upper room Jesus told His disciples,
“These things I have spoken to you … that your joy
may be full” (John 15:11). He further told them that
His joy is one that cannot be taken away (John 16:22).
No pagan philosophy, no atheistic ideology, no deep
sorrow can dislodge the joy that Christ gives.
Second, the resurrected Christ is also big
enough to cope with the gigantic social problems of
these times. The race problem is not limited to any
one city, nor to any one part of the United States. The
race problem is a worldwide problem. Wherever two
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When He was crucified, the Bible says, “an
inscription also was written over Him in letters of
Greek, Latin and Hebrew: 'THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS' ” (Luke 23:38). He was then, and still is,
King; only we have changed. One of our failures is
not seeing Christ as King of the physical and material
as well as the spiritual, of the mind as well as the soul,
of the government as well as the heart.
There is a better way. Paul says, “The kingdom
of Heaven is not a matter of whether you get what you
like to eat and drink, but of righteousness and peace
and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17, Phillips).
Christian joy is dependent on a personal relationship
with God, not on externals.
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