Our Scripture for today is Matthew 28:5–6.
The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. “
Let me tell you a story.
John and Phil were walking by a stream, and John asked Phil, “Why don’t you believe that Jesus got up from the grave?”
Phil, an atheist, responded, “Because I believe in science and not miracles.”
So you don’t believe in miracles?” John asked.
“Absolutely not.” Phil confidently answered.
John asked, “Then how did we get here?”
Phil had the answer, “The Big Bang Theory.”
Okay, let me read you a description of the Big Bang theory.
Advocates of the Big Bang say, “13.8 billion years ago, at the beginning of the Big Bang, everything in the entire universe was squeezed inside an inconceivably small space, far tinier than a grain of sand. Then everything just started expanding. Out of it came everything in the universe. That is the Big Bang.”
Since scientists knows of no laws which make this possible, that sounds like a miracle to me.
Here is the truth: everyone believes in miracles. Miracles #1. Atheists believe the Sun, Moon, all the stars, and all galaxies were at one time compressed together into a space smaller than a grain of sand. All of a sudden, bang, everything just started expanding.
Miracle #2. Christians believe that Jesus got up again after he died.
It is incredible to hear someone say that Jesus couldn’t rise again because that would be a miracle. At the same time believing that all living creatures, and the sun, moon and stars, all things came from something the size of a grain of sand.
Lonnie Davis