1. What if the Resurrection never happened? Mark 16:1-8

2. Apostle Paul… “If there is no resurrection, Let’s feast and get drunk, for tomorrow we die!” (I Corinthians 15:32b)

3. The Resurrection is vitally important for many reasons.

4. Jesus kept his promise to rise from the dead, so we can believe he will keep all his other promises.

5. The Resurrection ensures that the ruler of God’s eternal kingdom will be the living Christ, not just an idea, hope or dream. (I Corinthians 15:24-28)

6. Christ’s resurrection gives us the assurance that we also will be resurrected. (I Corinthians 15:20) But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again

7. The power of God that brought Christ’s body back from the dead is available to us to bring our morally and spiritually dead selves back to life so that we can change and grow. (Romans 6:1-4)

8. Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more kindness and forgiveness? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we became Christians and were baptized to become one with Christ Jesus, we died with him? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives

9. The Resurrection provided the substance of the church’s witness to the world. We do not merely tell lessons from the life of a good teacher; we proclaim the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Acts 1:21-22)

10. Acts 1:21-22 - So now we must choose another man to take Judas's place. It must be someone who has been with us all the time that we were with the Lord Jesus - from the time he was baptized by John until the day he was taken from us into heaven. Whoever is chosen will join us as a witness of Jesus' resurrection