Three Testimonies That 100% Prove That Jesus Is Real

Was Jesus for Real?

Is Jesus the only way of salvation? We addressed this question in the last podcast, and you established from Scripture the answer is yes — there is no salvation without embracing Christ as the one who died for our sins and rose again. So the logical follow-up question then is this: Pastor John, how do we know if Jesus was for real?


Let me give you three ways to approach this question. I choose these three because they are all relevant for me. I know there are more paths into warranted, justified confidence in the Bible as a true witness and in Christ as a true Savior. These are the three that have had the greatest impact on me.

Resurrection Assurance

First, the apostle Paul treated the resurrection of Jesus as a compelling warrant for believing what Jesus said. In Acts 17:30–31 he says, “God commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

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So, Paul treated the resurrection as the means by which God gave the world assurance. “My Son incarnate was speaking the truth.” “My Son, in dying for sins, was vindicated by his resurrection.” Then you add to that 1 Corinthians 15 where Paul argues that the first readers could confirm this claim of the resurrection because they alive as he wrote. He said in 1 Corinthians 15:5–8, “He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.”


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