Easter is often about new clothes, pretty outfits, eggs, bunnies, and . . . oh, yeah – Christ’s resurrection. Christ’s resurrection was the pivot point in all of history. All of Christianity stands or falls on the truth of that event. Paul’s argued to those in Corinth that were teaching no resurrection from the dead was: if there is no resurrection, then…

In I Corinthians 15, Paul is laying out the proof for resurrection from the dead to the Corinthians who said that there was no resurrection. In verse 51 he declares: “Behold, I show you a mystery . . .” Resurrection from the dead was never a mystery. Even in Job, the first book of scripture to be written, Job says that he…

Paul’s message from the very beginning had one main issue – resurrection from the dead. To the Jews he used resurrection as proof that Jesus was the Christ. He used resurrection when speaking to the Gentiles to prove that Jesus Christ is God. Without resurrection there is no salvation, there is no hope, our faith is vain, and we are still dead…