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Introduction
This morning I want to continue with the Easter series that I started last week.
We introduced the fact that Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection is the GREATEST HISTORICAL MOMENT in all of HISTORY.
It all began with His death.
His death is extremely important as it was God’s avenue for offering His righteousness to us.
None of us are capable of true righteousness.
We are all sinners.
Our righteousness is filthy and dirty.
Thus, every person born into this world is born already falling short of God’s glory.
Our current standing with God has not always been this way.
Originally, when God created us, we were perfect having a wholesome and good relationship with God.
Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden changed all that.
Adam and Ever disobeyed the one command that God gave them.
They were not to eat of the fruit of the tree known as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
It was one simple command by God.
Unfortunately, we were not even capable of obeying that one command.
For that reason, Scripture declares:
God’s holiness demands God’s judgment upon sin.
The only way our sin could be forgiven was through a blood sacrifice.
However, not any blood sacrifice would suffice.
It was a blood sacrifice that must come from a completely sinless offering.
No man could meet that requirement.
We are all unrighteous in our sin.
Thus, God, who is not only holy, but He is also full of great love, rich mercy, and full of grace, made a way for us to be reconciled back to Him.
He offered Himself as the perfect Sacrifice for us.
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, offered Himself as our Substitute.
Christ, who was sinless, became sin for us.
This is the wonderful news of the gospel.
Everyone who believes all that Christ did for them on the cross of Calvary can receive God’s wonderful offer of righteousness.
They can be made “the righteousness of God.” His death enables us to be free from the bondage of sin.
Through His shed blood, we are redeemed, forgiven, and at peace once again with God.
However, that is only part one of this great story.
The second part gets even better.
It is the second part of this wonderful moment in history that we celebrate this morning.
Last week, we read about Christ’s death.
He was crucified between two thieves.
He willingly yielded up His Spirit for us.
As Paul Harvey used to say, “Here is the rest of the story!”
Last week, I stated that historians agree that Christ did indeed die upon the cross of Calvary.
It is the one thing about His story that they get right.
However, when it comes to the Christ’s resurrection, not many would agree that He indeed is risen.
In fact, it was the Pharisees who, from the very beginning, began to sow seeds of doubt about His resurrection.
A fact that is recorded in Scripture itself.
Note that “this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.”
Here is further proof of the authenticity of Gods’ Word.
Indeed, many, especially the Jews, still question if Christ did indeed rise from the dead.
We have been working our way through the book of 1 Corinthians.
As we already know, there were several problems at work in the local church at Corinth.
It would seem the authenticity of Christ’s resurrection was one of them.
The Holy Spirit directly addresses their concerns in 1 Corinthians 15.
That is our text for this sunrise service.
Look at 1 Corinthians 15 and we will read verse 1-11.
I want to see that Christ’s resurrection is an:
UNDENIABLE FACT
Later, in the morning worship service, we will see Christ’s resurrection is an ESSENTIAL FACT of our theology.
However, for just a few minutes, let’s focus on Christ’s resurrection as HISTORICALLY ACCURATE.
Look again at verse one of our text.
UNDENIABLE GOSPEL FRUIT
The Holy Spirit begins laying the foundation of Christ’s resurrection as historical fact by first reminding the Corinthians believers how they recieved the Gospel message.
When Paul arrived in Corinth the first time, he arrived proclaiming the gospel of Christ.
The word “gospel” means “good news.”
Paul had good news to share with them.
We already noted in our previous study of this wonderful book how Paul how he “determined to not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
(1 Corinthians 2:2)
As he proclaimed the gospel, many recieved it.
And even as they were reading this great letter, they still stood upon their faith in it.
Look at the next three verses of our text.
What was Paul’s message?
What was the complete context of the gospel message?
Is it not that Christ died, was buried, and that He rose again on the third day?
You see you cannot separate Christ’s death and resurrection.
It is the complete event.
He died and He rose again.
Thus, to deny His resurrection is to deny His death.
Any denial of any part of the all that Christ did is to deny the truth.
If there is no resurrection, the preaching of the gospel becomes vain.
A dead Christ simply means a dead religion.
It makes Christianity no different than any other religion.
Now the Holy Spirit gives ample evidence to the validity of Christ’s resurrection.
He points to the many eyewitnesses who are proof that Christ died, was buried, and that He rose again.
Each of these give
UNDENIABLE GOSPEL FACTS
The first witness to step up is Paul himself.
Go back to verse 3.
Note three things in Paul’s testimony.
There is the:
Cross - “Christ died for our sins.”
There is much we could say here.
However, for the sake of time, we must simply note that their were hundreds who witnessed His death.
As we stated before, His death has never been in question because of the overwhelming number of people who watched Him die.
Cemetery - “he was buried.”
Again, none dispute that Christ was buried.
We know that two of Jerusalem’s most influential men united to ensure a proper burial of our Lord.
They were Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus.
Both men together spent a fortune in spices alone with Joseph providing a valuable tomb for Him to rest.
Calendar - “he rose again on the third day”
Today, on our calendar, we celebrate the day on Christ’s calendar when walked out of the tomb.
He died.
He was buried.
Yet, three days later, as He promised, Christ arose!
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