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I.The Content of the Gospel:

“After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.”
Hosea 6:2

“For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.”
Psalm 16:10

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The Resurrected Jesus Appeared to:

• Cephas: Peter

The Resurrected Jesus Appeared to:

• Cephas: Peter
• The "12 Disciples"

The Resurrected Jesus Appeared to:

• Cephas: Peter
• The "12 Disciples"
• More than 500

The Resurrected Jesus Appeared to:

• Cephas: Peter
• The "12 Disciples"
• More than 500
• James (Jesus brother)

The Resurrected Jesus Appeared to:

• Cephas: Peter
• The "12 Disciples"
• More than 500
• James (Jesus brother)
• Paul (Enemy of Christians)

God still transforms the least likely… the farthest from grace and gives them grace upon grace upon grace.

II.The Importance of the Resurrection:

If dead men don't rise:

• Jesus was not raised.

If dead men don't rise:

• Jesus was not raised.
• Our work is useless.

If dead men don't rise:

• Jesus was not raised.
• Our work is useless.
• We are Liars.

If dead men don't rise:

• Jesus was not raised.
• Our work is useless.
• We are Liars.
• Our faith is useless.

If dead men don't rise:

• Jesus was not raised.
• Our work is useless.
• We are Liars.
• Our faith is useless.
• Our hope in the future is empty.

“"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted."
Leviticus 23:10-11

The resurrection is a proof and a promise of the resurrection of God’s people.

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
-C. S. Lewis

III.The Transformation of the Resurrection:

“Plants do not rise (and people do not rise on their own volition. Nor do they do it by chance. They do it because that is the way God has determined it shall be.”
-Morris

As empty as we feel on earth it will all be transformed because of the emptiness Christ felt and the empty tomb.

The Victory of the Resurrection:

If Satan, sin, and death no longer have a hold on us what can stop us from truly living?