Gabe Fluhrer

Why does it hurt so terribly when people die?

Why are we here?

What is it all about?

My friends, all of us will ask and answer those questions, and they start young.

They start when we're young.

They begin when we almost are self-conscious, don't they?

And so many of the answers offered today don't make reality understandable for us.

And even as they have these massive contradictions at their core, like we noticed in one of our lectures where you get rid of the whole concept of truth if you believe this, the whole concept of right and wrong, even with those glaring contradictions, people would still rather believe that than the truths of the Scriptures.

Because, again, when we talk about beliefs, my friends, and when we talk about logic and evidence, we're talking about spiritual warfare.

God told the prophet Habakkuk to publish the message and make it plain so that he who runs may read.

And that, my friends, is this.

Calvin put it, the theater of God's glory in the world all around us.

He who runs can read the glory of God.

And the reason we don't is because we've been blinded by Satan instead of believing the obvious that's right before our nose.

Finally, the resurrection of Christ explains all the evidence.

One of the tests that a scientific theory is true is whether or not it can explain more evidence than the other theories put forward.

And so it is with the resurrection of Christ when we strip away all of the false assumptions and just ask ourselves at the most basic level, how do we account for the transformation of the disciples?

How do we account for the rise of Christianity?

How do we account that even in our day today, and many of us can testify to this, how do we account for the change that people undergo when they meet Christ?

How do we account for all of this?