The Lord Jesus rose from the dead.

That means that he is God, but it also means this, that he had accomplished on the

cross the work that God sent him to do.

God the Father sent God the son to do a work on the cross.

What was it to bear our sin, to die in our place,

to be punished on our behalf, to be as it were the sacrifice for our sins. Welcome to Grace to you

with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. The cross is foolishness to those who won't believe its truth,

but have you ever considered just how far the scoffers have gone and will go to try to disprove the resurrection.

The truth is lies about Jesus Christ have been circulating since the day he rose from the

dead and today on Grace to you John MacArthur circulating since the day he rose from the dead.

And today on Grace to you,

John MacArthur examines one of those 2,000-year-old lies,

as he helps you answer one of life's most important questions, who is Jesus anyway?

That's the title of our current study.

So follow along with John and see what that ancient lie actually proves about Jesus Christ.

One of the things that must be believed in order for a person to be delivered from sin and death and judgment and hell

is the resurrection of Christ.

And so I want to talk about that.

It's amazing the extent to which people will go to fabricate

ridiculous explanations to explain away the one thing that if they

would believe it would save them from eternal judgment.

You can come up with any kind of concoction you want if you're going to reject the true Christ, but all the evidence

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