Gabe Fluhrer

They keep preaching and teaching.

There's been a turnaround in their lives.

And the only way to explain that turnaround is that Jesus was alive.

We have some friends whose son worked for the New England Patriots.

And I was raised a die-hard Cowboys fan, which has prepared me well for suffering the past few decades.

But our friends, we began to get interested in the Patriots and watched the Super Bowl when they came back from, I believe it was 24 or so points down and beat the Atlanta Falcons a few years ago.

It was called the greatest comeback in sports.

Well, here we have the greatest comeback of cowards in human history.

We have these men who were dejected, who were everything from the ancient equivalent of a jihadist.

That's what Simon the Zealot was.

He was waging terrorist tactics against the Roman government.

He wanted terror and mayhem to go on.

We have that guy on one end of the spectrum to Peter the family man.

who's working and earning a living and gets his life upended by Jesus.

And these various people, these various men come together with a unified message, and they are absolutely fearless in their declaration of that message.

How do we explain that?

Was it because they had a mass hallucination?

No.

Was it because they somehow felt that Jesus was alive in their hearts to stand up against that?

We all find out what we truly believe when there's a gun to our head, don't we?