Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have died in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died. (1 Corinthians 15:12-20, NRSV)
Have you ever had one of those things that could not be explained but you believed it?
Some in Paul’s day were saying that Christ was not raised from the dead… Yet we say there is resurrection and that Christ rose from the dead. Yet if He didn’t rise, where is our hope?
What do we have to cling to if Christ did not rise from the dead?
Our faith is futile and in vain.
But you see that is the hope, because we know that Christ was raised from the dead. Can we prove it, not in a CSI way, but to me I do not need to. I know the promises the Bible tells me are true. And that may not be enough for some, but it is enough for me. God gave me the Hope that Jesus loved me enough to endure the cross and God loved me enough to not leave Jesus in the grave and I know that the Father will not leave me there either. And you can hope in our Daddy God and know that He will not leave you there either!
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