WHAT IF EASTER NEVER HAPPENED? (2 OF 4)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4
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What If Easter Never Happened? (2 of 4)
Series: The BIG Picture
Jordan Easley
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Last weekend, we gathered in this place to celebrate a risen Savior! We celebrated the Good News... that Jesus is Alive. And I for one... am still celebrating that good news... because I know that Jesus wasn't only alive 2,000 years ago... or even last week. Jesus is alive TODAY! Amen?
That phrase ''Good News'' is oftentimes referred to as ''The Gospel'' within Christian circles and the church. Perhaps you've heard that phrase before and don't exactly understand what the gospel is... Well, let me show you what the Bible says:
In [1 Corinthians 15... verses 3 and 4] Paul did a great job of explaining the gospel. He said... 3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures..
The gospel has always at its critics, its naysayers, and its doubters. People have questioned the validity of the gospel story since the day Jesus rose from the grave. And yet [in verse 12], Paul told the doubters in Corinth... 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, ''There is no resurrection of the dead''?
In that day, Paul couldn't understand how someone could deny the resurrection... because he knew that the evidence was overwhelming. When he said... Now if Christ is being proclaimed as raised from the dead... what he was really saying was... Since everybody knows that Christ raised from the dead... how could you say, ''There is no resurrection of the dead?''
What you may not realize is... People in the first century... knew that Jesus raised from the dead. Over the course of 40 days after his resurrection, Jesus appeared multiple times to many groups of people.
There were over 500 eyewitnesses that saw resurrected Jesus and interacted with him in multiple places all arou ...
Series: The BIG Picture
Jordan Easley
1 Corinthians 15:3-4
Last weekend, we gathered in this place to celebrate a risen Savior! We celebrated the Good News... that Jesus is Alive. And I for one... am still celebrating that good news... because I know that Jesus wasn't only alive 2,000 years ago... or even last week. Jesus is alive TODAY! Amen?
That phrase ''Good News'' is oftentimes referred to as ''The Gospel'' within Christian circles and the church. Perhaps you've heard that phrase before and don't exactly understand what the gospel is... Well, let me show you what the Bible says:
In [1 Corinthians 15... verses 3 and 4] Paul did a great job of explaining the gospel. He said... 3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures..
The gospel has always at its critics, its naysayers, and its doubters. People have questioned the validity of the gospel story since the day Jesus rose from the grave. And yet [in verse 12], Paul told the doubters in Corinth... 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, ''There is no resurrection of the dead''?
In that day, Paul couldn't understand how someone could deny the resurrection... because he knew that the evidence was overwhelming. When he said... Now if Christ is being proclaimed as raised from the dead... what he was really saying was... Since everybody knows that Christ raised from the dead... how could you say, ''There is no resurrection of the dead?''
What you may not realize is... People in the first century... knew that Jesus raised from the dead. Over the course of 40 days after his resurrection, Jesus appeared multiple times to many groups of people.
There were over 500 eyewitnesses that saw resurrected Jesus and interacted with him in multiple places all arou ...
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