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“If Christ be not risen…your faith is also vain [empty]…but now is Christ risen from the dead” (1 Corinthians 15:14,20).
Resurrection from the dead is a wonderful thing, when we think of how our bodies decay and go back to dust within a few years after we die. But the Lord Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, and the fact that He is risen is our assurance that God accepted the work He did on Calvary’s cross. God was so pleased with what His beloved Son had done that He raised Him from the dead.
Some in Corinth were preaching that there was no resurrection, and the Apostle Paul points out to them that if there were no resurrection, then Christ was not raised from the dead, and their faith was all for nothing. They were still in their sins. But Christ is raised, and because we are united to Christ, we too will be raised. Again, how wonderful this is! We will speak a little more about it tomorrow.
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