Beautiful Feet

Read Romans 10:9-15

9   If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” 

12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him,

13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” 

***INTRODUCTION***

One of the strongest parts of our body is our feet. Our feet is a complex structure with 52 bones, 66 joints, 214 ligaments, 38 muscles, and tendons that hold the structure together and allow it to move in a variety of ways.  The bones in our feet make up about 1/4 of all the bones in our body.     We use our feet in a lot of ways.  We run using our feet. We walk using our feet (unless somebody here uses something else for walking).  We stomp our feet when we’re not happy.  We jump for joy when we are glad.  We take a step of faith. We kick somebody with our feet to retaliate.  We dance with our feet    Even for boxers, footwork is important.  We use our feet to seek and lookout for someone.  

I went to Mexico City last week and one thing I noticed in my hotel, there was a disposable shoe polisher.  And when I went out on the street, almost in every intersection, I notice somebody shining shoes.  Then I look at my colleagues there, true enough, their shoes were all shiny. According to them, it’s part of their culture – to have beautiful feet, shiny shoes.   The Bible uses the term “beautiful feet” but it is actually a figure of speech, more of a metaphor to describe something wonderful.  So  what makes our feet beautiful in the sight of God?

  

****UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT***

• The book of Romans was written by the Apostle Paul to the Christians in Rome sometime in A.D. 56. 
• The most evident theme in this epistle is the subject of the gospel.
• God’s righteousness is revealed in this Gospel and this righteousness can be accessed  through faith alone (Sola Fide).
• “The righteous by faith shall live (Romans 1:17)  These passages in Romans give rise to some of the pioneers of the reformation like Martin Luther and John Calvin. 
• Chapter 10 tells us how important that this same Gospel must be shared with others. 

But Paul admonishes us to share the Gospel.  The Gospel simply means “good news.”  What is this “good news?”  Well, it’s about Jesus Christ – His birth, His ministry, His death on the cross and His resurrection and the promise of eternal life for those who will believe Him.  What is good about somebody getting crucified 2,000 years ago?  Well, His pain is our gain.  His death gives us the hope for eternal life.  That is the Gospel.     Paul said “I am writing this letter for Gospel’s sake.”  Paul was an evangelist of Christ’s Gospel.   We learned last time about the Empty Tomb and the fact that this Gospel that we preach today is both biblically and historically accurate.  There were hundreds of witnesses to the risen Christ but most importantly, millions of changed lives because of this Gospel. 

 ***WHAT CAN WE LEARN?***

Having  beautiful feet has nothing to do with having a nice pedicure or how nice our toe nails are or how clean and shiny our shoes are.   Paul listed the steps as far as preaching the Gospel is concerned.  He uses a   literary technique here by listing these steps in reverse order, using questions or interrogative forms.  

First, he started with a general statement:

13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”^[b]

Then he listed several steps in reverse order in verses 14-15.

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?

15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?

Then he made another general statement in:

As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”^[c]

 Verse 13 and 15b are actually quotations from the Old Testament:  Joel 2:32 and Isaiah 52:7, respectively.  If we re-arrange these steps, it will look like this:

Based on this order, we first read the general statement: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News!”

-  but first, a preacher must be sent;

-  sent preacher must preach the good news;

-  the preached good news must be heard;

-  the heard good news must be believed;

-  the belief must be the kind that calls on God for salvation.

Sending, preaching, hearing, believing, calling on God yields salvation.

Then we read the 2^nd general statement:  “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

If you look at this chart, Sending, Preaching and making sure that the message is Heard are the responsibilities of the Church (if we are talking of the bigger missional or evangelistic initiatives).  In the  same manner, these are likewise personal responsibilities of each believer.  These are active verbs and not passive.  We are not to wait.  We should actively send, actively preach and actively make sure that the message is heard.   

Lesson No. 1:  Preachers of Gospel are precious and beautiful in the sight of the Lord (v15)

This is the reason why becoming a preacher is an important calling.  This is the reason why the Bible says in 1^st Timothy 5:17:  The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honour, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching 

God values those who share the Gospel.  He knows that it won’t be easy.  From a missionary to a pastor to a Bible Study leader, a lot of persecutions are encountered by a preacher of the Gospel every step of the way, lots of challenges.  Of course, preaching the Gospel is not limited to the pastors.  People got saved in your home group meetings.  People got saved in your school or office.  People got saved in fitness gyms or in grocery stores.  All that is needed is somebody who is willing to share the Good News.

Preachers of the gospel or bringers of God’s good news are so precious that we see even their soiled and bloody and dirty feet as beautiful.  Beautiful feet are not those soft, pedicured, painted, well-tanned feet. Beautiful feet are like the dirty, worn, wrinkled, smelly, scarred feet from many miles of walking into remote places sharing the Gospel that could not be heard any other way.  Beautiful feet are those feet who walk  in service for the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.  Beautiful feet are those who never get tired of inviting people to the church.

 

If you share the good news with somebody, you have beautiful feet.

Lesson No. 2 -  God still actively sends people to share the Gospel (v14-15)

In general, people cannot say “oh we haven’t heard so how can we believe?”  Missionaries have been sent to the most remote parts of the planet.  God uses the church, first and foremost, to share the Good News.  Jesus said in the Great Commission:  “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  Jesus did not just command us to share the Gospel, He empowers each one of us and assures us that He will be with us when we obey and fulfil these daunting tasks.

 The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise…but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. “  (2nd Peter 3:9 ESV)

People perish because of their own choice, it’s not God’s choice.  It is not God’s will for people to go to hell.  It’s clear in the Bible that He does not wish that any should perish.  He already took the initiative through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He already empowered the church, through the Holy Spirit, to share this Gospel to the lost.  But one thing He will not do is to force anybody to love Him because forced love is not love at all. Love for God must be freely desired and freely given.

Lesson No. 3 -  The Gospel is available for anyone who is willing to listen and believe (v.12)

In verse 12, Paul said that: For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him (Romans 10:12)

While we know that God has a special purpose for the Jews but when it comes to salvation, we’re all the same, we get the same opportunity.  When it comes to salvation, God is no respecter of races.  

The Good News is available for anyone who is willing to listen and believe.

It is very important to note that:  there is indeed a Gospel – a Good News verified by history and most importantly attested to by witnesses who had given up their lives in order for this Gospel to be shared with other people.  

The good thing is God has commissioned a special group of people called the CHURCH to share this Gospel not just to people they like but to anyone.  These people are called preachers or evangelists or missionaries or Bible Study teachers or ordinary Christians whose passion is just simply to obey the Lord Jesus Christ and to share His good news to others.  These are the people whose feet are beautiful.

***WHAT NOW?***

  In conclusion,  let us again look at verses 9, 10 and 13:

⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 

¹⁰ For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 

¹³Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.  In verse 13, Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (Romans 10:9,10 &13)

Why does Paul mention calling on the Lord as something that needs to happen after believing on the Lord? I thought we are saved or justified  "by faith alone"… sola fide.  Isn`t “calling the Lord“ a kind of “work?“  If you look at these verses, there seems to be two things that need to happen:  believing and calling in order to be saved.  We should analyse this very carefully as this is a doctrinal matter. 

Ephesians 2:8-9 says “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. “  This is our doctrine.  Salvation is a gift from God because of His grace.  It`s not because of any action or activity in our part.  We are saved by faith in Jesus alone. 
 But then, James 2:17 says “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. “  So which is which? Faith? Action? Or both?

Faith and Action is similar to Believing and Calling.  Faith refers to believing.  Action refers to Calling. 

In verse 9, Paul said “if you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord“ – that`s Calling and Action. He said “if you believe the Gospel in your heart, i.e. Christ resurrected, you will be saved“  -- that’s Faith … believing in your heart.

In verse 10, Paul said “it is with your heart that you believe and are justified“ that`s faith obviously… and he said further “and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved“ that`s action.   

When we believe in the Gospel, we are saved… we are justified.  God knows that because He can see our heart.  FAITH is justification before God.   That`s all we need to do because God sees even those things hidden.  But what is the evidence that we are saved?  Our actions!  Our actions justify us before men. How can we share the Gospel effectively if we are not walking the talk or if we are not practicing what we preach?

  Faith  is justification before God (Ephesians 2:8-9).

 Action is “justification” before men (James 2:17)

I think the reason Paul mentions "calling on the Lord" in addition to "believing on the Lord" because he looks at salvation in a larger context.  It`s the whole experience of deliverance not only from the guilt of sin, but from its power and from many temptations and many trials.  God has justified us by faith but we express that faith over and over throughout life, by calling on the Lord for deliverance and help in a thousand ways.

Calling upon the Lord is a clear indication that we truly believed

Calling upon the Lord denotes an action that we are indeed saved.

You can read this several times in the book of Psalms:

Psalm 18:3, “I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.”

 Psalm 50:15, “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”  Psalm 91:15, “When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.” 

Psalm 145:18, “The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.”

Blind Bartimaeus called out to Jesus, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Rabbi, let me recover my sight." Then Jesus said, "Go your way; your faith has made you well."  Jesus saw Bartimaeus’ calling as an evidence of his faith.

We should call upon the Lord continually.  We call upon the Lord by praying.  We call upon the Name of Lord when we praise Him.  We call upon the name of Jesus in times of trouble.  We call upon the Lord whenever we share His Good News to others. Those people with beautiful feet call upon the Lord.  We call upon the Lord through our actions and through our reactions. Calling upon the Lord is a clear indication that we truly believed.  When Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, he writes, "To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." That’s what a Christian is: "those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Do you call on him? Do you call upon Him regularly?

Paul defines a Christian as a person who continually calls upon to Jesus.  He is a person who calls upon to Jesus primarily through prayer.  "Lord Jesus, I am tired and heavily laden, please help me." "Lord Jesus, I am weak, strengthen me." "Lord Jesus, I am lost and confused, guide me." "Lord Jesus, I am caught in a bondage of temptation and sin, deliver me." "Lord Jesus,  I am sick, please heal me. 

We have learned that the church or every Christian is responsible for sending, preaching and making sure that the Gospel is heard.  I think we have accomplished that purpose today. We have shared Jesus.  But the next step is up to you. You have heard about Christ today. What are you going to do?     

Believing and Calling upon the Lord is something that you must do for yourself.  Accepting Jesus on your behalf is something I cannot do for you.  It's personal.  It is something you have to do by yourself.

Prayer

Wherever you are, whatever you situation you may be -- you need the love of Jesus in your life.
Please say this prayer sincerely from your heart:  

Father God, I confess all my sins to you today.  Please forgive me.  Today, I open my heart to your Son Jesus Christ.  I accept Him in my life as my Savior and as my Lord.  May the Holy Spirit come to my life and make me the kind of person you want me to be.  In Jesus Name, I pray.  Amen.

The above article is an excerpt from a sermon delivered at WCF Richmond on  Sunday, April 19, 2015.

I apologize if there are grammatical and spelling errors.

I also apologize if I have missed acknowledging or making proper references to my sources, if any.  as it is purely unintentional.

If you are looking for a church in British Columbia, Canada please visit our website at:

 www.wordchristianfellowship.com

The Empty Tomb (An Easter Sunday Message)

Read: 1 Corinthians 15:12-22

I watched The Passion of The Christ movie Thursday evening with my son Ram and this movie is known for some of its gruesome and horrifying scenes like the scourging part. One of my favorite scenes was the last part, inside the tomb when Jesus stood up, with holes in his hands.  It gives me a visual of that glorious resurrection Sunday when Jesus rose again from the grave!

I remember the time when the body of my friend Timothy was being laid to rest.  I was a very new Christian then and a lot of “what ifs” lingered in my mind.  Tim lived the last few years of his life as a faithful believer and servant of the Lord Jesus Christ but I cannot help but think --- 
“What if Christianity is wrong?”  
“What if there is no life after death?” 
"What if all that he believed in is just a delusion?"   
"What if the Bible is just a collection of mythical stories and the faith that we have believed to be true is a hoax?”  
Have you ever had those doubts?  Have you ever had those questions in your mind? One of the things that were really hard for me to understand was the resurrection.

Even during our time today especially here in North America,  life after death or resurrection is constantly under attack.  Some people say there is no afterlife and it is just a "fairy story of people afraid of the dark.[1]"  But come to think of it, is it even logically accurate for anyone to say that there is no life after death? At the time that person is saying that… he is still alive and he cannot be absolutely sure. The resurrection or the idea of life after death is being attacked because of the simple reason that some people would like to do get everything from their life at present no matter what the consequences would be.  "Well if there is no life after death, then, I better get what I can now."    

The City of Corinth has been influenced greatly by the Greeks.  The Greeks had a well known philosophy “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die!”   Since they don’t believe that the body can resurrect so whatever pleasure and delight you want to do with your body, do it now.  These kinds of teachings likewise show up even in advertising today.   Live life.  Laugh out loud.  This is the only chance you got!

I believe the Empty Tomb is the pinnacle of Christ’s ministry here on earth.   Please don’t get me wrong.  I am not undermining the cross.  We got saved because of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.  But come to think of it, a lot of people have also sacrificed their lives for a cause that they believed in. A lot of people have died for something in the pages of history – some of them are really for good and noble causes.   But I don’t think we would even hear about the Gospel if the story of Jesus’ ministry just ended on the cross… if it ended after His death.    Do you know what happened to the disciples of Jesus after  He was crucified? Did they lead a revolution?  No!  Did they attack the temple of the Pharisees who persecuted Jesus? No!  Did they appoint a successor of Jesus and continued to fight Rome? No! They went into hiding.  They were fearful for their lives.  They were wimping like a dog. Some of them have lost hope - their master was gone. Jesus died.   Some of them even got back to their old jobs like fishing.   Life moves on and most of them were trying to forget.

If you read verses 3-7,Paul is explicitly explaining here that there were actual witnesses to the Resurrection. He said, the resurrected Christ appeared to Peter, then to the disciples, then to more than 500 most of whom are still living.  What’s the significance of this statement?  It simply means that if the Corinthian church has some doubts about the resurrection… they can ask the eyewitnesses themselves and verify with them because some of them are still alive while he was writing the epistle.  

In the verses that followed (v. 12 - 22),  Paul has posed an important "what if" question. He said "What if Christ has not resurrected?"  Following is an enumeration of the consequences for Paul's question.
If there is no Empty Tomb:
1.  All preaching would have been a waste of time
2.  The Christian faith would be useless.
3.  The apostles will be called "liars."
4.  All our sins of the past are still with us 
5.  Those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.
6.  We, Christians, of all people, are most to be pitied at.

Five Lines of Biblical evidence to the Empty Tomb [2]

1.  The Peculiarity of the Primary Witness
Who was the very first witness to the Empty Tomb?  It was Mary Magdalene.  (read John 20)  The first witness to the empty tomb was a woman.  Why is that so?  Why Mary Magdalene?   Some people say God used a woman so that the news of the risen Christ will spread like wildfire.  In both the Jewish and Roman cultures, women were 2nd class citizens. Their testimony was regarded worthless.  If resurrection is a hoax, the perpetrators will never ever chose women as primary witnesses.   The fact that women are the first witnesses simply means that – whether we like it or not - that's what happened, they really discovered the empty tomb! This shows that the Gospel writers faithfully recorded what happened, even if it was so embarrassing for the believers at that time.

 2.  The enemies’ confirmation that there was an Empty Tomb
The chief priests confirmed that there was an Empty Tomb and they even bribed the soldiers who were guarding the tomb to make up a story saying that while they were sleeping, the disciples of Jesus took His body.  Well, the next question there is:  if they were sleeping, how come they knew that the body was stolen by the disciples?  And are they not supposed to be “guarding” and not sleeping?

3. The conversion of skeptics and persecutors like James and Paul himself
Paul was known to be a violent persecutor of the early Church. After what he described as an encounter with the resurrected Christ on the road to Damascus, Paul underwent a drastic change from a vicious persecutor of the Church to one of its most prolific and selfless defenders. James was skeptical, though not as hostile as Paul. An encounter with the resurrected Christ turned him not only as a believer but as a key leader of the Church in Jerusalem.

4.  The place where the resurrection took place.
We know that Jesus was publicly executed and buried in Jerusalem. It would have been impossible for faith in His resurrection to take root in Jerusalem if His body was still in the tomb there somewhere.  The authorities can easily exhume it, put it on public display, and thereby expose the hoax – but they cannot produce the body because the tomb was empty.  
There are three possible reasons for the empty tomb:
• The disciples stole the body –  but this is impossible, first, there were guards and the disciples were fearful for their lives, the second reason why we are certain that they did not steal the body – I will tell you later.  
• The tomb was not empty because Jesus did not actually die –  but Christ was beaten, tortured, and stabbed.  Nobody  could survive such an ordeal, sit in his tomb for three days without medical attention, food or water, remove that  massive stone, escape undetected (without leaving behind a trail of blood), convince hundreds of eyewitnesses that He was resurrected from the death and in good health, and then disappear without a trace.
• The third and only logical reason why the tomb was empty – Jesus has indeed resurrected.

5. For me, the most important proof of resurrection are the:  Eyewitness testimonies with their dramatic & inexplicable change in faith
The Bible talked about more than 500 people who have seen the risen Christ,   that includes the disciples. In a typical court of law, all you need is a corroborating testimony of at least two witnesses for that testimony to be acceptable but here we have more than 500.  It is not logical for the disciples to hide the body.   The disciples and the early Christians willfully endured prolonged torture and death rather than to retract their testimony. This fact attests to their sincerity, ruling out deception on their part. According to the historical record, most Christians could end their suffering simply by renouncing the faith.   Why would they give up their lives for something they know is a fake?  What makes the earliest Christian martyrs remarkable is that they knew whether or not what they were professing was true. They either saw Jesus Christ alive-and-well after His death or they did not. This is extraordinary. If it was all just a lie, why would they all knowingly cling to such lie in the face of persecution, imprisonment, torture, and death?  The  9-11 suicide bombers undoubtedly believed what they professed, because they died for it but they could not and did not know if it was true. They put their faith in traditions passed down to them over many generations. 

In contrast, the early Christian martyrs were first generation. Either they saw what they claimed to see, or they did not. The Apostles collectively underwent an undeniable change following the resurrection.  They took to the streets, boldly proclaiming the resurrection despite intensifying persecution. What accounts for their sudden and dramatic change? It certainly was not financial gain.  The Apostles gave up everything they had to preach the resurrection, including their lives.  

There are likewise extra-Biblical accounts of the resurrection and the early church.  These are from from historical records:

From Flavius Josephus, Jewish Historian in his book Antiquities, Article 18.63-64 (A.D. 94) 

  “About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man [if indeed one ought to call him a man.] For he was one who wrought surprising feats and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. [He was the Christ.] When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing amongst us, had condemned him to be crucified, those who had in the first place come to love him did not give up their affection for him.  [On the third day he appeared to them restored to life, for the prophets of God had prophesied these and countless other marvelous things about him.] And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.

From Tacitus, Roman Historian & Senator from his writings called Annals
Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius… an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. … they were torn by dogs … or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination … Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man's cruelty, that they were being destroyed.  


There is no way these early Christians will undergo these extreme persecutions for something that they believe to be a lie.  It doesn’t make sense!  No wonder the gospel of Christ has reached our generation and is continuing to expand because we know and we believe that we are serving and worshiping the risen Christ.  This is one thing that separates Christ from any other important figure in History.  Paul is correct when he said in verse 20 that:

Christ has indeed been raised from the dead!

This verse means a lot to all of us.  It means a lot to those first generation Christians who willingly gave up their lives for something that they have seen and they have believed to be true.
When you confront the glorious fact that Jesus rose from the dead it answers all the doubts. It means that we too can rise with him in eternity.  Yes it is true that man has fallen because of sin, during the time of Adam but through Christ, we have the promise of resurrection.

 If we are in Christ, we shall be resurrected as well in our glorified bodies!

Now that you know the truth about resurrection, will your lives drastically change as well? Will you become like the early Christians that despite the persecutions and trials and sufferings, they still persevered and they stayed faithful to their cause until the very last breath that they had… because they knew, even if they are being burned alive… even if they are being fed to the lions, even if they are being torn by dogs… even if they are being crucified… their last dying breath… was actually not their last.  Because they are certain that one day… like Jesus Christ… we too shall be resurrected.

One of the greatest defense lawyers of our time is Sir Lionel Luckhoo he was in the Guinness Book of World Records his unprecedented 245 consecutive defense murder trial acquittals.  This legal expert wrote, 
“I have spent more than 42 years as a defense trial lawyer appearing in many parts of the world and am still in active practice. I have been fortunate to secure a number of successes in jury trials and I say unequivocally the evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.”

Do you have that same confidence Christ’s resurrection?

Do you believe that you too shall rise again?

  

Prayer

Wherever you are, whatever you situation you may be -- you need the love of Jesus in your life.
Please say this prayer sincerely from your heart:  

Father God, I confess all my sins to you today.  Please forgive me.  Today, I open my heart to your Son Jesus Christ.  I accept Him in my life as my Savior and as my Lord.  May the Holy Spirit come to my life and make me the kind of person you want me to be.  In Jesus Name, I pray.  Amen.

The above article is an excerpt from a sermon delivered at WCF Richmond on  Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015.

I apologize if there are grammatical and spelling errors.

 I also apologize if I have missed acknowledging or making proper references to my sources, if any.  as it is purely unintentional.

If you are looking for a church in British Columbia, Canada please visit our website at:
 www.wordchristianfellowship.com

[1] - quoted from Stephen Hawking, Cosmologist and Research Director at Cambridge University

[2] - Source:  Why I Should Believe in the Resurrection - Gotquestions.org