22 Knowing Jesus Christ You will know when Jesus lives within you, because He will bring you lasting joy and fulfillment. Listen to His promise: “. . . I have come that they may have life, and have it in great abundance.” John 10:10 Jesus is also The Life, because He has the power to resurrect your body from the grave. Three days after His crucifixion Jesus physically rose from the dead just as He said He would (Luke 24:1-8, 36-40). The day Jesus rose from the dead He taught His disciples what the proph- ets of old had written of His death and resurrec- tion for their sins (Luke 24:13-49). He took them through The Law, The Prophets, and The Writ- ings (3 divisions of The Bible’s Old Testament or The Tanakh - Hebrew Scriptures) written 100’s of yrs. before His death. After His resurrection the early disciples were never the same, because Jesus had proven that He has the power to resurrect our bodies from the grave (Romans 8:9-11). All the founders of this world’s religions are dead or they are dying (Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad . . .) and they have no power to give us life after death. In the age to come God has promised to make everything new - He will give us a new indestructible body that will never die. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth . . . “ There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain . . .” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” . . . Revelation 21:1-5 (NIV84)