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Listen to me, friend.

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Muhammad lived, died, and was buried.

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Buddha lived, died, and was buried.

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Confucius lived, died, and was buried.

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Jesus lived, died, and was buried.

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But he rose again.

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We serve a resurrected Lord.

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Why?

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Because Christianity was never built on a coffin

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lid.

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We serve a living Lord, and we can

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have fellowship with Him.

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In the first epistle of John, we read

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that we have seen and heard.

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Declare we unto you that ye also may

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have fellowship with us.

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And truly our fellowship is with the Father,

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and with His Son, Jesus Christ.

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The Mohammedans can't have fellowship with Muhammad.

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He is dead and buried at Mecca.

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The Buddhist cannot have fellowship with Buddha.

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He is dead.

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He was cremated in China.

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No one can have fellowship with any human

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founder of a religion.

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But the Christian can have fellowship with Jesus

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because he's very much alive.

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What separates Christianity from other world religions is

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the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.

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We read in Mark's Gospel, So then, after

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the Lord had spoken unto them, he was

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received up into heaven and sat down on

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the right hand of God.

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So we see, friend, that Christianity was never

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built on a coffin lid, for our God

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lives.

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Jesus now sits on a throne in heaven

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at the right hand of the Father, and

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he earned that right by way of a

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bloody cross.