What’s So Amazing About the Resurrection?
- 1. It Happened
Luke 24:11 (NIV)
1 Corinthians 15:3-6 (NIV)
1 Corinthians 15:3 (NIV)
“According to the laws of legal evidence used in courts of law, there is more evidence for the historical fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ than for just about any other event in history” -Simon Greenleaf
What’s So Amazing About the Resurrection?
- 2. It’s Grace – Available to All
John 20:10-16 (NIV)
Luke 8:2 (NIV)
Mark 16:9 (NIV)
2 Corinthians 5:21a (NIV) “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)
1 Corinthians 15:17 (NIV)
1 Peter 1:3 (NIV)
What’s So Amazing About the Resurrection?
- 3. It’s Hope
Resurrection Hope: Believing something good can come out of something bad.
Romans 8:18 (NIV)
What’s So Amazing About the Resurrection?
- 4. It’s Promise – Confidence in Life After Death
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (NIV) “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed – in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.”
1 Corinthians 15:54 (NIV) “When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immorality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death that been swallowed up in victory.”
1 Thessalonians 4:13b-17 (NIV) “Do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.”
John 5:28-29 (NLT) “Don’t be so surprised! Indeed, the time is coming when all the dead in their graves will hear the voice of God’s Son, 29 and they will rise again. Those who have done good will rise to experience eternal life, and those who have continued in evil will rise to experience judgment.”
