HOW TO RESPOND TO THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS

TEXT- 1 CORINTHIANS 15:12-19

INTRODUCTION

TODAY ALL OVER THE WORLD PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING THE RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY CALLED EASTER.

FOR SOME REASON THE WORLD THINKS THAT THIS ONE DAY IS MUCH HOLIER THAN ALL OTHERS.

THEY SET THIS ONE DAY ASIDE OUT OF THE YEAR TO HONOR THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.

BUT TODAY SHOULD NOT BE THE ONLY DAY OUT OF THE YEAR THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT CHRIST ROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND IS ALIVE.

WE SHOULD THANK GOD EVERY DAY AND REMEMBER EVERYDAY THAT JESUS DID COME FORTH FROM THE DEAD AND LIVES!

HERE IN OUR TEXT PAUL SHOWS US THE IMPORTANCE OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION.

HE STATES THAT IF JESUS DID NOT COME FORTH FROM THE DEAD, OUR FAITH THAT WE HAVE IN JESUS IS WORTHLESS.

HE STATES THAT IF JESUS DID NOT COME FORTH FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE ARE STILL IN OUR SIN.

ROMANS 4:25  HE WAS DELIVERED OVER TO DEATH FOR OUR SINS AND WAS RAISED TO LIFE FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION.

THE QUESTION TODAY IS, “DID JESUS RISE FROM THE DEAD?”  “IS HE ALIVE TODAY?”

IN A SURVEY TAKEN ONCE, OVER 70% OF THOSE SURVEYED SAID THAT JESUS DID NOT RISE FROM THE DEAD AND THAT HE IS NOT ALIVE TODAY.

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON WAYS PEOPLE RESPOND TO THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS IS WITH UNBELIEF.

THIS MORNING I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE WAYS PEOPLE RESPONDED IN THE BIBLE TO THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS AND HOW GOD WOULD WANT EACH US TO RESPOND TODAY.