Many scoff at the resurrection. It is the heart, center, core of New Testament Christianity.

1. Why I believe in the
Resurrection
1 Corinthians 15

2. Death Dilemma
• Job 14:14 – If a man die, will he
live again?
• Many answer – I hope so. I don't
know. Maybe. I think so.
• Christians claim Jesus' tomb is
empty

3. Importance
• 1 Corinthians 15:14-17
– Preaching is vain
– Your faith is vain
– Still in your sins
• Romans 1:4 – and declared to be
the Son of God with power
according to the Spirit of holiness,
by the resurrection from the dead.
• Core, center, heart of Christianity

4. Frank Morison
• Lawyer – Resurrection is a fairy tale.
Ready to write a book to prove with
leagal evidence.
• Not as easy as he thought
• Instead – Who Moved the Stone?
• The book that refused to be written.

5. The Body Stolen?
• He is not here. He is risen.
• Body stolen – Matthew 27:64
• Guards slept, apostles stole him
• Guards faced death penalty
• Disciples would live and die for a
lie

6. The Body Stolen?
• Paul Little - “Men will die for
what they believe to be true,
though it may actually be false.
They do not, however, die for
what they know is a lie. If a man
ever tells the truth, it is on his
deathbed.”

7. Authorities took body?
• Why post guards?
• Easy to stop Christianity
• Produce the body
• Obviously – they did not have
the body

8. Went to wrong tomb?
• Women were mistaken
• Peter and John also mistaken
• Easy to stop apostles
• Take them to the right tomb

9. Jesus in a swoon?
• Did Jesus really die? Just
passed out from loss of blood?
Went into a coma?
• Same solution – Where is the
body / alive person?

10. Jesus in a swoon?
• Requires a greater miracle
• Survive crucifixion
• 3 days with no food or water
• Move huge stone with nail holes
in his hands
• Walk 14 miles to Emmaus

11. Who moved the stone?
• None of the theories explain
away the resurrection
• The tomb was empty because
Jesus was not there.

12. His Appearances
• Just a hallucination?
• Wishful thinking?
• Different people, over a month
period of time, large groups
• Great details – hallucinations are
fuzzy, vague, unfocused

13. His Appearances
• Just a hallucination?
• Thomas – saw the scars
• Women came with spices
• They were not expecting His
resurrection

14. His Appearances
• From a confused story?
• They had an “experience” but
nothing really happened
• Too many accounts – different
times, places, groups

15. Evidence Today
• Bible accounts still remain
• Early church martyrs
• Changed lives of apostles
– Fearful – changed to courage
– Abandon Christ – changed to die for Him
• Changed lives last 2,000 years

16. Personal Impact
• What does the resurrection of
Jesus mean to you?
• Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand
at the door and knock. If anyone
hears My voice and opens the
door, I will come in to him and
dine with him, and he with Me.