Christ Jesus really lived!
That is one thing that all agree upon-that this Person who claimed to be the Son of God really lived here on earth among men.
We know when He lived: from about 3 B.C. until about 30 A.D.
We know where He was born: in Bethlehem of Judea, a real town and not a mythological one. We know where He lived for most of the years of His life: in Nazareth, in northern Galilee. There He worked as a carpenter.
We know many of the leaders of His day. Their names appear in other historical writings besides the Bible: Herod the Great, his great grandson Herod Agrippa, Salome, Pontius Pilate, Tiberius Cæsar, Gamaliel, Felix and Festus.
Every history of the ancient world and every encyclopedia records the fact that Jesus lived during the first century of our era. H. G. Wells had a contempt for almost every article of the Christian faith, but he was compelled to give pages to Jesus of Nazareth in his Outline of History.
All dates of history in our calendar are now designated by the letters B.C. and A.D.-both of which refer to the time of the birth of Christ-not Plato, not Julius Cæsar, not Mohammed.
Christ has done more to lift the moral and ethical standards of men than all the philosophers of Greece and Rome combined. He is above all!
And surpassing all that, millions in each generation have had their lives changed by the firm belief that Jesus Christ has given the world the perfect revelation of God, the only gospel that does deliver from the power of sin, the only assurance of forgiveness of sins, the only positive of life to come.
JESUS CHRIST LIVED!
AND JESUS CHRIST LIVES! He ever lives to make intercession for those who believe on Him. Jesus Christ, our Lord!