He Is Risen, Indeed!

International Standard Version (©2008)
They kept saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!"

New International Version (©1984)
and saying, "It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon."

New Living Translation (@2007)
who said, "The Lord has really risen! He appeared to Peter."

English Standard Version (©2001)
saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

Doesn’t matter which version of the Bible is chosen, the Lord is risen indeed!

It doesn’t matter which Christian church says it, this is an absolute truth as stated by the Fairfield Presbyterian Church’s website:

This bold declaration of truth, faith and historical fact is at the very core of the Christian faith. To deny this is to deny the Christian faith in total. Without the Resurrection of Christ there can be no Gospel, i.e. no good news about salvation.

Yesterday I posted:

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. (1 Corinthians 15:19 KJV)

Well, it isn’t only in this life that we have hope in Christ, as Paul continued:

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:20-22 KJV)

This is the reason for worship on the first day of the week.  This is the reason the gospels were written.  This is the reason Paul turned from being:

an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; (Philippians 3:5b)

Instead, he became:

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) (Galatians 1:1 KJV)

So, once a year we look upon His death, and fifty-weeks a year we look upon His resurrection.  We believe:

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8 KJV)

The “Why?” comes in one earlier verse:

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) (2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV)

How do we get faith?

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17 KJV)

Come – walk with us, please?