Resurrection

 December 14 – Resurrection - 1 Cor 15:1-11

 

     The most important truth of Christianity is the resurrection.  Without the resurrection there is no forgiveness of sins.  Christ would be still in the grave. What He said about His rising from the dead would be a lie.  Yet, praise God, Jesus did rise from the dead.  Paul brings out some important facts about the post resurrection appearances of Christ.  Jesus first appeared to Peter.  He then appeared to the twelve disciples.  He appeared to more than 500 people at the same time.  He appear to James and finally to Paul.

     Some people have tried to disclaim and disprove that Jesus rose from the dead.  Yet centuries of witnesses and the power of Christianity to reform society cannot be dampened.

     In the eighteenth century they said that God was dead.  In the nineteenth they said the church was dead.  Yet today we see more Christian than any other time in history.  Why has the church grown?  It has grown because of the resurrection.  Jesus is alive and living despite what the critics say.