As followers of Jesus Christ our risen Lord and Savior, we are preparing to celebrate our most sacred and important event — the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus the Messiah.
We must lay aside all the secular accoutrements which have attached themselves to Easter — Easter egg hunts and Easter bunnies, etc. — and focus on the central event in human history, the physical Resurrection of the crucified Son of God.
No less an authority than the Apostle Paul, writing with divine inspiration and authority, proclaimed that if Christ was not risen from the dead then we had no salvation and were still in our sins (I Cor. 15:17). The central truth of the Christian faith stands or falls with the essential truth of the Resurrection.
As the Apostle Paul declared to the Roman Christians, “if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Rom. 10:9)
In reality there is no valid Christianity that does not engage in a full-throated proclamation and affirmation of the physical resurrection of the crucified Christ on the first Resurrection Day.
The Apostle Paul recounts the numerous appearances of the resurrected Jesus (I Cor. 15). The four Gospels also relate the events not only of the Resurrection, but His post-Resurrection appearances before His Ascension back into Heaven (Luke 24:1-53).
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