Daily Devotions
An Argument for the Resurrection
Title: An Argument for the Resurrection
Reading for May 27: Job 1-4
Weekly reading for May 27-June : Acts 20-24
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread...
Acts 20:7
An argument can be made from this verse for Jesus' resurrection.
When historians identify a drastic change in an important cultural institution, they look for reasons for that change. For example, slavery was an important cultural and economic institution in America in the mid nineteenth century America. Yet before the beginning of the twentieth century it was gone. How could that happen? The Civil War happened. The bloodiest conflict in this nation's history, ended slavery in America.
For over a thousand years, Jews had kept the Sabbath. It was taken very seriously in the first century, and yet in a short span of time, Jews who believed in Jesus started gathering for worship on the first day of the week (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2).
Why did this happen? How could such an important institution be changed so quickly? It's simple: Jesus was raised on this day. All four of the gospels tell us that Jesus rose on the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1-2; Luke 24:1; John 20:1). It was the first day of the week that the Lord chose to be the day of worship and it was on this day that early Christians gathered to remember His death. Yet another evidence for us that Jesus did rise from the dead!
Father, we set apart this day to remember Your Son and to worship you.
