“Death Could Not Hold Him!” ~ Tom Milam

“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;”  Psalms 91:5

But this secular world may well be afraid for:

1.   They have an angry God above them;

2.   A guilty conscience within them;

3.   A yawning hell beneath them;

4.   But we that are saved, “And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.”  (Isaiah 30:18)

          The bloody cross is a scandal to unregenerate man, (foolishness).  No wonder they said, “come down from the cross” – “you saved others, now save yourself.”  (Luke 23:35)

1.   An example of religion will not save, but exceptional reliance on the Word of Truth will.

2.   It is not the Brilliance of the Crystal Christ of Poetry; but the Brightness of the Calvary Christ of Scripture.

3.   Not Christ the Model, like a paragon; but Christ the Mediator, our Propitiation, who saves us. (1 John 2:1-2)

4.   The heart of the Gospel is not Jesus of Nazareth, a man; but Jesus slain and risen for our justification.  Therefore proving deaths impossible predicament and the logical conclusion of sin.   “21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 22Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:  23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:  24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.” (Acts 2:21-24) 

          Though my body is lost at sea, and my remains never be found; and if this frail frame is burned to nothing but a pile of ashes; and though my body becomes part and parcel of this earth ~ still, aint no grave going to hold this body down; Christ got UP, so I’ll get UP and you’ll get UP on; “Come up hither!”

“Death Could Not Hold Him!” ~ Tom Milam