1 Corinthians 15 is the greatest defense of the resurrection that there is. Everything in the Christian faith depends on the resurrection. Paul wrote that if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen and all of those who died in Christ died in vain. Without resurrection they are just dead. How could one deny the resurrection of Christ and call himself or herself Christian? Due to His resurrection, Christ is still alive. If He is not still alive then we have no one to worship, no one to preach about and no one to surrender our lives to. I don't even want to think about a world with a dead Christ. Everything around us would be dead. His church would be dead. The Bible would be useless, because it would be based on the lie that Jesus arose from the grave. 1 Corinthians 15:14-19 gives us a description of a world without a resurrected Christ: "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ: Whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16. For if the dead rise not, then is Christ not raised. 17. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins. 18. Then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." If what we have on this earth is all there is, and there is nothing more to look forward, we are miserable beings with no future hope. Thank God we are not miserable beings, because Christ is still alive and we celebrate that during this season of the year.
Bro. Joe
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Margaret Jones
3/13/2012 08:58:33 am
Thanks for the messages on the cross and resurrection. We are studying Luke in SS this quarter.
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