Undeniable Evidence

We hear the argument, over and repeatedly

Jesus is not God,

Please tell me, if he is not

Then, is he a fraud?

“I am the resurrection and life,” he says,

Tell me, was he deluded?

Who else but God could make such a claim?

None else, I have long concluded.

He healed a paralytic on the Sabbath day

And forgave people of their sin,

He alluded to the fact that he was God

And the Jews wanted to stone him.

Was he a lunatic?  

Was he a liar?

Was he simply out of his mind?

Or, just a misguided conspirator?

Be careful how you speak up

For if your answer is “Yes”,

You are the one misguided

To that God’s Word will attest.

God, Himself, bore witness

That Jesus was His Son,

Surely at Jesus’ baptism

And at his transfiguration.

“I and the Father are one”

You can interpret that how you feel,

But it makes sense as Jesus declared it

And to me, that’s how it appeals.

On this remarkable day

When we celebrate his resurrection,

Let us take note again

That his rising seals our redemption.

  

What if Jesus had died

And he had not also arisen,

Tell me, what would have been the chance

Of our sin being forgiven?

He would have been no different

From the great men of the past

Who, after all that they had accomplished,

Still passed away at last.
 

But Jesus, who declared

That he would rise from the dead,

Demonstrated the same

When he left his grave clothes all neatly spread.

Risen indeed!  As only God could have done,

Risen indeed!  After earth’s course he had run,

Risen indeed!  Is God’s beloved Son,

Risen indeed!  In this heart he has won. 

Undeniable evidence!

That Jesus is God,

Undeniable evidence!

That Jesus is no fraud,

Undeniable evidence!

That will never fall,

Undeniable evidence!

Go!  Spread it abroad.

Stewart Russell © April 2020