As the Lord Lives.....

Revelation 1:18 NIV
I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.

Jesus is alive forever.

We declare it in our daily prayer,
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever

We see that the word of Lord  is forever...
Matthew 24:35 NIV
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away

Ecclesiastes 3:11New American Standard Bible (NASB)

God Set Eternity in the Heart of Man

11 He has made everything [a]appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart,[b]yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Many have reaffirmed this word again and again in the Bible, Some due to fear, some due to respect and honor and some for assertiveness.

The best answer for a question is the answer which not only will confirm the questioner's doubts but also gives him an insight to know the possibility of the solution that he is looking for.

Taking into consideration, each and everyone of us have to live a honest, pure and holy life. We will never be able to live without Godly answers.

1 Peter 3:15New American Standard Bible (NASB)

15 but [a]sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a [b]defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and [c]reverence;

For we have to be patient with one another to know what their wants and needs are, we should never judge and condemn others for their shortfall, each of us have to help others and not to condemn each others, we should never compare and contrast ourselves with others, we should never discourage others.

God made one rich other poor for a reason, if we were able to help we should, but we should never discourage them for their being.

Nehemiah's assertiveness:
"Let the king live forever". The answer Nehemiah gave for the king is an assertive answer for the king's question. Realizing the importance of someone's question and their intentions behind will enable us to answer any question with appropriate meaning. This answer from Nehemiah not only turned the king's view, but also enabled the king to ask for more important aspects, like "what would you request?", "How long will you take?".

Nehemiah 2 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Nehemiah’s Prayer Answered

2 And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that winewas before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. 2 So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid. 3 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?” 4 Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. 5 I said to the king, “If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

Joseph's assertiveness:
Joseph said, "How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?” 
His answer is also assertive, because there cannot be any other question asked after this. This answer also is assertive, as Joseph thought the cause and consequence of an act even before it and to respond to an event with the help of Godly knowledge and wisdom.

Genesis 39:7-12New American Standard Bible (NASB)

7 It came about after these events that his master’s wife [a]looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.” 8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, with mehere, my master [b]does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my [c]charge. 9 [d]There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?” 10 As she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her. 11 Now it happened [e]one day that he went into the house to do his work, and none of the men of the household was there inside. 12 She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside.

Many philosophers and skeptics argued and doubted about the resurrection of Christ. Like Nietzsche.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

—Nietzsche, 

But Apostle Paul writing to Corinth said, 

if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God.

if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The Fact of Christ’s Resurrection

15 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast [a]the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

3 For I delivered to you [b]as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.6 After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; 7 then He appeared to [c]James, then to all the apostles; 8 and last of all, as [d]to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. 9 For I amthe least of the apostles, [e]and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

12 Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; 14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. 15 Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified [f]against God that He raised [g]Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; 17 and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

Hebrews 13:8New American Standard Bible (NASB)

8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.