Why Easter is Good News? Mark 15-16 & 1 Corinthians 15

”Why Easter is Good News” Mark 15-16 1 Corinthians 15 1 Corinthians 15 Easter is good news because: 1. It Happened 2. It Makes Sense 3. It Gives Hope 4. It Is Beautiful 1 Corinthians 15 Easter is good news because: 1. It Happened 2. It Makes Sense 3. It Gives Hope 4. It Is Beautiful “…if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless.” “But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.” 1 Corinthians 15 Easter is good news because: 1. It Happened 2. It Makes Sense 3. It Gives Hope 4. It Is Beautiful “Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise… “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for a different world.” - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 1 Corinthians 15 Easter is good news because: 1. It Happened 2. It Makes Sense 3. It Gives Hope 4. It Is Beautiful “…other religions spoke of the uncertain possibility of a better hereafter if our moral performance was sufficient. The Christian hope exceeded such quavering wishful thinking in every way. The biblical word elpida, translated as the weaker English word “hope”, means profound certainty. Christians view even the hardest circumstances as part of a history guided by God at every turn toward not merely some kind of afterlife but toward the resurrection of our bodies and souls into new, remade heavens and earth. -Tim Keller, Hope in Times of Fear 1 Corinthians 15 Easter is good news because: 1. It Happened 2. It Makes Sense 3. It Gives Hope 4. It Is Beautiful “…now go tell his disciples, including Peter, that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee…” “…He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve…” “Love each other in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. This is my command: Love each other.”