Relevance of the Resurrection (Acts 24:20–21)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Pray the Word on Acts 24:20–21, David Platt explains to us the importance of the resurrection as the defining factor of our faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:05.7 | Acts chapter 24, verses 20 and 21, where else let these men themselves say what wrong doing they |
| 0:11.6 | found when I stood before the council other than this one thing that I cried out while standing |
| 0:16.8 | among them. It is with respect the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day. |
| 0:22.7 | This is interesting. This is Paul giving a defense as he's been imprisoned and as he's defending |
| 0:28.3 | himself he says they're in verse 20. These men who are claiming I've done this or that |
| 0:33.2 | wrong they don't have anything against me except for this one thing I said and when I said this |
| 0:39.0 | it changed everything and he quotes what he said previously it is with respect the resurrection |
| 0:44.4 | of the dead that I am on trial before you this day. I read that and I think yeah that's pretty |
| 0:49.8 | much the hinge upon which everything turns the resurrection of Jesus. This is Paul's argument in |
| 0:56.2 | 1 Corinthians 15 he says if Jesus didn't rise from the dead then I and all of us who are Christians |
| 1:02.8 | are wasting our time our life and our faith is in vain. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead then |
| 1:08.8 | on the words of the late Tim color we don't really need to listen to anything he said because he |
| 1:14.0 | said he would rise from the dead and all of his teaching hinges on his death on the cross and |
| 1:19.7 | resurrection from the grave. If this didn't happen then Jesus is not who he said he was and we don't |
| 1:25.4 | need to follow him. Christianity is foolishness. Paul himself says this in 1 Corinthians 15 if |
| 1:31.2 | Jesus didn't rise from the dead. So whenever I'm having a conversation with someone who is |
| 1:35.8 | genuinely asking questions about Christianity or even sometimes I'll say this with someone who's |
| 1:41.6 | not very genuinely dismissing the claims of Christianity and I'll say so have you just come to |
| 1:47.5 | the conclusion that Jesus definitely didn't rise from the dead because that is the hands upon which |
| 1:52.8 | everything in Christianity turns everything in the Bible turns everything in our faith hinges |
| 1:58.4 | on the resurrection of Jesus and then take it a step further because this is what Paul's |
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