CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

Greetings and Salutations Oh Ye Fellow Chewers of the Cud.

Step with me back into the stream of the time-space continuum. Strap yourselves into the H.G. Wells time machine...set the clock for 33 A.D...get Mr. Peabody and his human assistant Sherman to set the controls for the WayBack Machine...and find yourself in a time where the Romans rule the politico...and Pharisees and Sadducee's rule the religious.

For three years there was a prophet...a teacher...an outlaw, who walked the dusty roads of Israel...doing three things. He would: (1) Teach (2) Proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God (3) Heal the sick. Jesus the Christ went about doing good and healing all who were OPPRESSED by the devil (little d) for God was with Him (Acts 10:38). After all that was His name...Immanuel...God with us (Matthew 1:23).

For three years you could see the WILL OF GOD...on earth as it is heaven...by seeing what Jesus did. "In the beginning was the Word/Jesus...and the Word/Jesus was with God...and the Word/Jesus WAS God. (John 1:1). This Jesus the exact representation and radiance of the Father (Hebrews 1:1-3)

What was the only logical thing to do to God in the flesh...who came to do good and heal all who were oppressed by the devil...by destroying the works of the devil...and giving life and that more abundantly. Answer the question below:

A. Build Him a throne and worship Him
B. Elected Him the highest political office possible
C. Start a cult and overthrow the religious/politico powers
D. Beat Him, Mock Him, Torture Him, Nail Him to a cross, Kill Him


There has been a CRIME committed...and the evidence appears to have been tampered with...causing some confusion about who the real criminal really is. We need to call in The Crime Scene Investigation Team and pull in the evidence...and see WHO ARE YOU...who who, who who.

The religious element of the day had incited a riot against this guy called Jesus. They convinced the political leaders to bring charges against Him, put Him through interrogations, beatings, shame, and eventually death.

Jesus spoke about these things with His followers..."And He began to teach them that the Son of Man (that would be Jesus) must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and BE KILLED, and after three days RISE AGAIN." (Matthew 8:31)

This was NOT good news for the followers...of who they thought was going to rise up as the powerful Messiah...and overthrow Roman tyranny.

The crime that we speak of...was not who killed the Christ. We know who killed the Christ...and it was NOT the Jews. No one TOOK His life...He gave it willingly. Jesus died no the cross willingly...becoming the substitute for the Jews, the Greeks, the Gentiles, the niggers, the honky soda crackers, the religious people, the nappy headed ho's, the straight haired Aryans, the whores, the whore mongers, the homosexual sodomites, the heterosexual fornicators, the illegal street drug users, the prescription drug users....(fill in the blank of anyone else in the world...good, bad or ugly).

The crime that needs to be investigated with the looking glass of Sherlock...is WHO MOVED THE STONE...WHO STOLE THE BODY...WHO PERPETRATED THE HOAX OF RESURRECTION...WHO DECEIVED MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE MILLENNIUM ABOUT THIS PERSON CALLED JESUS CHRIST??????

The hallmark of Christianity...is not mere historical fact...or some device device of literature that was dreamed up to manipulate and control the populace.

No...this thing called Christianity is rooted in history...stretching with outreached arms to WHOSOEVER BELIEVES. The fingerprint on the tomb is the fingerprint of God Himself.

This thing called Christianity is nothing but a mere religious system standing next to every other religious system...with ONE TWIST. The EMPTY TOMB. If there is no empty tomb...if there are plots to steal the body to make it look like a dead man was raised...if there was some kind of SWOONING...where Jesus did not really die...but just fainted on the cross....if there was lies and deceptions perpetrated by the ultimate con man...Jesus to convince people to follow Him...if there was the ravings of a lunatic or a mad man on the level of Hitler or Charles Manson...then following Jesus is a waste of time.

What separates the men from the boys...the women from the girls...the facts from the fiction...is THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.

RISEN CHRIST=LIFE ...NO RISEN CHRIST= A nice little story




A cursory glance at various tombs and graves reveals:

1. Lonnie Boyd's grave (my dad): decaying body and bones
2. George Washington's grave: decayed body/bones wooden teeth, wig.
3. Abraham Lincoln: Long legged bones
4. Unknown soldier's grave: Unknown bones.

NOTE: Even Napoleon's...Bones-apart.

5. Jesus' Tomb: No bones. Why? HE IS RISEN...HE IS RISEN INDEED!

To some Jesus was known as a good person...to some a great teacher...to some as a nut...but to others Jesus is known as THE DECEIVER.

"On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together to PILATE...saying...Sir, we REMEMBER while He (Jesus) was STILL ALIVE, how that DECEIVER said AFTER THREE DAYS I WILL RISE. Therefore (because of what the deceiver said)...command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest HIS DISCIPLES come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people...HE HAS RISEN from the dead. So the LAST DECEPTION WILL BE WORSE THAN THE FIRST. Pilate said to them...you have a guarded; go your way, make it as secure as you know how. So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard."
(Matthew 2762-66) Well...the rest is His Story (history).

Mary Magdalen...and the other Mary went to the tomb...only to find an angel...a rolled back stone...shaking guards.and an empty tomb.

"But the angel answered and said to the women. Do not be afraid for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for HE IS RISEN...AS HE SAID. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. An GO QUICKLY...and TELL HIS DISCIPLES...that HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD..." (Matthew 28:5-7)

Well...either you believe it or you don't. You either live your life as if it is true...or live like it's not. I for one...choose in 1970 to believe it...and live as if HE IS RISEN. I either made the greatest mistake of my life and wasted my life...or I invested my life with the biggest payoff to come. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...trading misery, guilt, shame, destructive habits, momentary pleasures for peace, love, freedom, a restful mind.

(I Corinthians 15:1-8)
"Moreover brethren, I DECLARE to you the GOSPEL...which I PREACHED to you...which also you RECEIVED...and in which you STAND, by which also by which also you are SAVED, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you (about the DBR)...unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received that:

1. Christ died for our sins according to Scriptures
2. And that He was buried
3. and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures

D=DEATH
B=BURIAL
R=RESURRECTION

NOTHING MORE...NOTHING LESS.

For more information to tickle your intellectual funny bone read:

EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT (Volumes 1 & 2)--Josh McDowell
A READY DEFENSE-Josh McDowell
THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY-Lee Strobel
WHO MOVED THE STONE-Frank Morison
MERE CHRISTIANITY-C.S. Lewis
JESUS OUTSIDE THE NEW TESTAMENT-F.F. Bruce
KNOW WHAT AND WHY YOU BELIEVE- Paul Little
YOUTH AFLAME-Winkey Pratney
RENEWAL THEOLOGY-J. Rodman Williams
THE SPIRIT FILLED BELIEVERS HANDBOOK-Derek Prince

Happy Resurrection Day

Love and Risen Kisses
Rodney "I Believe" Boyd