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Welcome to Truth for Life weekend and on behalf of all of us at Truth for Life I want to wish you a joyful and

blessed Easter. Is it possible that Jesus didn't really die on the cross?

Did His disciples steal the body from the tomb?

Alistair Bigg confronts the speculation of skeptics today as we conclude a series called Journey to the Cross.

He's teaching from chapter 20 in the Gospel of John.

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By any standards the disciples were in a complete shambles.

One of them, the betrayer, Judas Iscariot by name, was already dead, a suicide.

The unofficial spokesman of the group Simon Peter, the one who had declared to Jesus that although everybody may run away and hide,

although everyone may desert Christ that He never would, He had crumbled before the questionings of a young girl just hours before.

And so to go and look for them is to discover a dejected and paralyzed company.

Now the question is obvious to any thinking person what was it that turned these men from fear to faith?

What was it that transformed their paralysis to such an emboldened expression of power?

What was it that took what was apparently a Friday evening catastrophe and turned it into a Sunday morning victory?

You need to take all of the options and lay them out, sift through them, select the best of the competing explanations,

to explain why the evidence is as it is and not otherwise. That's what you need to do.

Christianity invites it.

Well, if you do then you've got to go to the evidence for the origin of the belief in the resurrection and the part of the disciples.

You've got to go and do something with a post-mortem appearances of Christ and you've got to go finally and do something with this empty tomb.

And when you look at the evidence concerning the empty tomb, the evidence that supports the fight of the empty tomb, it is vast.

Far more than I can give to you just now.

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