What a Difference the Resurrection Makes

• What a Difference the Resurrection Makes!
• 1 Corinthians 15:12-20
• How has this one life made such a difference?
• John 8:56-58 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.“ 57 Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?“ 58 Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."
• John 10:36 do you say 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God’
• John 14:6,9 "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me … He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
• Mark 14:61-62 the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?“ Jesus said, "I am.”
Lunatic? …
Liar?…
• Matthew 20:17-19"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,19 and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will rise again."
• The Women found the Tomb Empty
• Can a Dead Man Come Back to Life?
• Did Jesus Fake His Death?
• Survive Crucifixion by Roman Soldiers?
• Was the Body Stolen?
• Jesus Rose from the Dead
• 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures
• 1 Corinthians 15:4-9 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
• Demonstrates the Power of Jesus
• Acts 1:3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
• Demonstrates the Power of Jesus
• Romans 1:1-4 the gospel of God2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,3 concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,4 and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
• Demonstrates the Power of Jesus
• Romans 8:33-34 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• Demonstrates the Power of Jesus
• Ephesians 1:19-23 what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
• The Truth of Christianity
• 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen.14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up -- if in fact the dead do not rise.
• The Truth of Christianity
• 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
• The Truth of Christianity
• 20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

• The Power it Gives Us
• Romans 6:3-5 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
• The Power it Gives Us
• 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.
• The Power it Gives Us
• 1 Corinthians 15:55-58 "O Death, where is your sting?O Hades, where is your victory?"56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• What a Difference the Resurrection Makes!
• 1 Corinthians 15:12-20