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By Pastor Glenn Pease
What is the most radical thing that could happen to you after you die?
Death is not the last chapter in the biography of anyone.
Things have a way of happening even after you are dead.
Pastor Leland Botjen of Spokane, Washington almost left the ministry after his first funeral.
The family of the deceased was poor, and a pine box was all they could afford.
As the pallbearers carried the coffin up the stairs, the bottom fell out and the body rolled down the steps.
The mourners were screaming, and the undertaker fainted.
He was frozen in a state of shock.
That was a radical after death experience, and history is full of them.
Just because the body is dead it does not mean that it cannot yet have a history.
Bodies have been stolen from their graves and sold.
Bodies have been moved from one country to another, or one cemetery to another.
Dead bodies are still things, and a lot of things can be done with things like bodies.
My Christian aunt donated her body to medical science, and so part of her are still having a history.
At her memorial service I saw what I had never seen before.
There were balloon bearers rather than pallbearers.
They hung in large bunches across the front of the sanctuary, and after the service everyone gathered outside and they were released to ascend into the sky and out of sight.
In each balloon was a piece of paper with her favorite Scripture which read, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths."
Prov.
3:5-6.
She wanted her memorial service to be a celebration, and to be a time when even the last event of her life would be a service to the kingdom of God.
Her body will go on serving, and the balloons were an act of service to convey the Word of God to others.
It was a beautiful experience, and a radical new experience for me.
But it does not come close to being the most radical thing that can happen to someone after death.
The two thieves that died along side of Jesus were likely cast into the city dump and burned to ashes.
Cremation is certainly a radical thing to happen to a body.
Others have been left to be eaten by birds and animals, and this is a radical reality that has been the fate of many thousands.
But none of these come close to being the most radical after death experience.
That honor has to go to the experience of being resurrected.
All of the after death experiences of people who see lights, and who see loved ones are all kids stuff in comparison to the experience of being resurrected.
To be truly dead and then to have your body refilled with life, and renewed by the Spirit, and revived to consciousness to walk again in the land of the living-that is the ultimate in radical.
This means that the resurrection of the body of Jesus is the most radical event in history, for He was the first to be resurrected never to die again.
All others who were raised from the dead had to endure a rerun of dying all over again.
Their resurrection was only temporary, but the resurrection on that first Easter was the beginning of the end for the reign of death, for the resurrection of Jesus was a permanent victory over death.
Paul says in Rom.
6:9, "For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again, death no longer has mastery over him."
If resurrection is the most radical thing that can happen to one after death, and the resurrection of Jesus was the first permanent resurrection, then we can see why Easter is the world-wide focus that it is, for we are celebrating the most radical event that can be conceived.
Before Easter there was a sort of dualism in the universe.
Satan and his rebel forces had been cast out of heaven, but they had considerable power on earth.
Their control of the realm of the dead seemed to be secure.
To rob the enemy of this stronghold someone had to penetrate this fortress of death, and then escape to prove that life is superior to death.
Easter is the celebration of the success of just such a radical military maneuver.
By means of his radical resurrection Jesus defeated man's greatest enemy.
Now a follower of Jesus does not need to fear entering the realm of death, for it is no longer under the control of Satan, but is under the Lordship of Christ.
Paul makes this clear in Rom.
14:8-9.
"So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living."
There have been many decisive battles in history that have determined the direction of history, but none so decisive as this one that determined the destiny of all mankind.
Because of His victory over death there is now an up for every down, and the up has the final word.
Yes there is death, but life has the last word.
Yes there is ugliness, but beauty has the last word.
Yes there is falsehood, but truth has the last word.
We could go on and on because the radical resurrection of Jesus has made all negatives temporary and all positives permanent.
That is why Paul was such an incurable optimist.
That is why he could write in Phil.
4:8, "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things."
Paul knew that when a Christian becomes a pessimist it is because they have taken their eyes off of the radical resurrection.
All the negative things of life are real, but they are not permanent.
They will be, not just out of style, but totally obsolete in the kingdom of Christ.
Therefore, the Christian has no business making them the focus of life.
It is the permanent that is to be the focus, for in so doing we honor the victory Jesus gained by His radical resurrection.
When we are pessimists we are being pre-Easter in our thinking.
Pre-Easter is death oriented, but post-Easter is life oriented.
Keep this in mind every time you are thinking negative, for it means you are taking your eyes off the radical resurrection.
When this is your focus you will be able to say with Camus, "In the midst of winter I suddenly found that there was in me an invincible summer."
Or sing with Charles Wesley-
Jesus, my All-in-All thou art:
My rest in toil, my ease in pain,
The healing of my broken heart,
In war my peace, in loss my gain,
My smile beneath the tyrant's frown:
In shame my glory and my crown.
In want my plentiful supply,
In weakness my almighty pow'r,
In bonds my perfect liberty,
My light in Satan's darkest hour,
In grief my joy unspeakable,
My life in death, my All-in-All.
A Christ-centered mind is radically optimist and life-centered.
There is no record of anyone being able to stay dead in the presence of Christ.
Every time Jesus confronted a corpse He brought it to life.
No one ever died in His presence, or stayed dead after He arrived.
Even the thief who died next to Him was promised to be alive with Him that very day.
No doubt, the reason Jesus did not come to the home of Lazarus when He was dying was because if He did Lazarus never would have died.
Jesus had to stay away to give death a chance to do its worst.
Then He came and raised him from the dead to demonstrate that even after death has done its worst life is still superior.
Jesus said on that occasion in John 11:25-26, "I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me will live, even though He dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."
This is radical teaching.
Nobody in history except Jesus made such radical claims.
If you don't think Jesus was a radical, you are just not listening.
The people who did listen said, "No man ever spoke as this man."
In John 14:19 Jesus said, "He who has seen me has seen the Father."
Try and top that!
When a man says you are looking at God when you are looking at me, you have reached the top rung on the ladder of the radical.
You can't get beyond the extreme of saying, as Jesus did, "All power in heaven and on earth is given unto me."
Let's face it, Jesus was the most radical personality whoever walked this planet, and He made the most radical claims, and did the most radical things, and at the center of it all is the radical resurrection.
Jesus said in John 6:40, "For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise Him up at the last day."
The resurrection is so radical because it becomes the foundation for the ultimate plan of God to have an eternal family in heaven raised up from the realm of death to dwell with Him forever.
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