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It will change our lives, won't it?

If you believe that he's actually alive, it colors everything else.

It's like putting on a new set of glasses to see the world.

It's like receiving new ears to hear the world.

Because when we exchange the false, unbelieving glasses for the truth of what the Scriptures tell us about the resurrection, it makes sense of reality like nothing else can.

And I keep saying the worldview that underwrites it, and that's everything that comes together of which the resurrection is a part.

And again, because today so often we think that, oh, well, you know, there's natural laws and God doesn't violate them.

And he just is, this is no way we can have miracles or things like that happen.

When we realize that the scriptures say, no, the world is his.

And when he does things like raise his son from the dead, it always had a purpose.

It had a background.

There was a backstory to it.

Then we come to the point of recognizing again.

Only the scriptures can explain why we even want a rational explanation for things that happen.

Only the scriptures can explain why we even care about logic.

So it's rationally satisfying.

And then in the third place, it makes our world understandable.

And we come again to this despairing tendency we see in modern life, which I've termed moderate nihilism.

Nihilism comes from the Latin word for nothing.

And true nihilism, the kind that Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher of the 19th century, came to embrace, led him to insanity, as it would to anybody, that there's no meaning, there's no purpose, there's nothing.