The Dead Shall Rise
Comments on Galatians with an ear to Luther’s commentary
Scripture Text: Galatians 3:6 and Isaiah 26:19
Series: Comments on Galatians
Reason contends that the power of God, if there is a God, expires at the grave. Once you are dead, you’re done. Human reason rejects the idea of a resurrection because reason operates in the world: what it can experience through the senses, what it may experiment with in the world it knows. Faith though, is not limited to feelings, science, thought, or the senses. Faith may go further than these because faith is not limited to this sphere of existence. It asserts there is another realm that awaits those who lie low in the grave. They are only sleeping, Paul writes (1 Thessalonians 4:13). Reason, with its limitations, declares that resurrection is absurd, while faith is free to believe God’s Word and promise, that on that Day, the dead will live, their bodies gloriously rise, awake and joyously singing to the Lord whose company we will share forever. Encourage one another with this hope (1 Thessalonians 4:18).
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Rev. Dr. Mark E. Ryman has served as Pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC, since 2021. Previously, Pastor Ryman served congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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