I saw Elvis Pressley… alive! Really! Of course it was 1962 at the Seattle World’s Fair, and he was in a golf cart with a crowd of people surrounding him. But I did see him.
However, as we know, Elvis died on August 16, 1977. Since then, thousands of people have claimed to see him alive. There is even an Elvis Sighting Society. No doubt many fans wished that Elvis had never died; but wishful thinking doesn’t make it true.
If you get a chance to see the movie Risen, you should go. It is the story of a tribune who is assigned by Pilate to find the body of Jesus so that his followers can’t claim that he has risen from the dead. The tribune approaches his task much like a modern day CSI TV detective, analyzing and evaluating all the evidence. As a result, his life is changed
forever.
3 “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born”. NIV
Like the fictitious tribune in Risen, hundreds of people saw the resurrected Jesus shortly after his crucifixion. As a result, not only were their lives changed, but the world was changed forever.
Elvis was known as the King, but Jesus is known as the King of Kings. Unlike Elvis, the King of Kings continues to appear to people today through the lives of believers. This is not like an Elvis sighting based on wishful thinking. It is the movement and the presence of the Living God. Nothing else can explain it.
He is risen…
…He is risen indeed.
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