This week at Redeemer Church we are celebrating the most important event to our faith: the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Without his death as an atoning sacrifice for our sins and without his resurrection to give us a hope for the future, then there is no Christianity. "But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead"! This gives us hope now as we are raised out of spiritual death in sin, as well as in the future in a bodily resurrection into Christ's kingdom when he comes again. Praise the Lord!
1 Corinthians 15:12-2312 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that 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 futile and you are still in your sins.
18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
19 If in Christ we have hope[
a] in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.