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We come back, at last, to the question Paul cried out in Romans 7. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
The answer is not a philosophy. It is not a moral improvement program. It is not a near-death experience or a heavenly waiting room. The answer is the resurrection of Jesus Christ — a resurrection that was not a private event but the prototype and guarantee of a universal one.
He was the first to rise from the dead, never to see corruption again. He was made Lord of the dead so that even while we lie in the grave, we are not abandoned. He tasted death for every man — not as a theological transaction but as a companion, a forerunner, a captain who goes first so that those who follow know the road has already been walked. And he rose again so that death is no longer the final word for any human being.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is relevant every day of the year — not because we are required to think about it constantly, but because its effects are permanent. The grave has been conquered. The one who held the power of death has been destroyed. The door that all of us must walk through has already been opened from the other side.
You do not need to fear what you do not know. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ mean that whatever waits on the other side of that door, you will not be alone. Someone is already there, waiting with an outstretched hand.
The only thing worth saying when conversations about religion come up — in families, at dinner tables, across every kind of human gathering — is simply this: the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ fixed everything. Everything is going to be okay. You do not need to argue it, defend it, or annotate it with doctrinal footnotes. The seed of that truth, planted in honest soil, will do its own work.
That is the power of the resurrection. And it belongs to every day, not just this one.
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