Is Jesus Alive? The Truth About the Resurrection and Eternal Life

• for the first time in my life I realized that the death of Christ is without meaning if there is no Resurrection if Christ died and he did not come out of the grave as he said he would then his death is no better than the death of any martyr who ever lived before him or after him the resurrection is the Touchstone of the Gospel it was the resurrection that was the message of the Apostles after Jesus came out of the Grave Paul was right if Christ is not risen we should be pied we simply cannot overestimate the
• importance of Jesus resurrection if it didn’t happen our lives are feudal and meaningless but look at the next verse in the text and rejoice with me but now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep Hallelujah if somebody were ask you to today what is the gospel what would you say well here’s your answer I declare to you the gospel said Paul that which I also received and here it is that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was buried that he
• rose again the third day according to the scriptures that is the gospel that is the good news and Paul insisted that the resurrection of Jesus Christ Christ be a part of that definition it is pivotal to our lives in fact the apostles said that if the resurrection isn’t a part of it nothing that we do has any meaning in the next few verses of 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verses 17-9 Paul says this if Christ is not risen your faith is feudal that mean it’s meaningless if Christ is not risen you are still still in your sins if Christ
• is not risen all of those Christians who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished if Christ is not risen in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most to be pied I remember growing up in a Christian family and going to the church where my father preached and he always preached on the Resurrection on Easter and once in a while he would preach on it at other times but I was a student in seminary in my second semester as a freshman before I really came to grips with what the resurrection was all about I’ll never
• forget it I went to a friendship dinner where Haden Robinson was the speaker and he spoke on the resurrection and I will never forget that message for the first time in my life I realized that the death of Christ is without meaning if there is no Resurrection if Christ died and he did not come out of the grave as he said he would then his death is no better than the death of any martyr who ever lived before him or after him the resurrection is the Touchstone of the Gospel it was the resurrection that was the message of the