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Podcast: The Watford Church of Christ Podcast
Episode: "Dead or Alive", Easter Sunday 2019, Watford church of Christ, Malcolm Cox
Description: Introduction
Early church certainly thought he was alive:
Acts references to resurrection/Jesus raised:
Acts 1.3, 22; 2.24, 31, 32; 3.15, 26; 4.2, 10, 33; 5.30; 10.40; 13.30, 34, 37; 17.18; 23.6; 24.21; 25.19
Central message of early church.
Jesus is alive and victorious
Victorious because alive
Because God vindicated his sacrifice
Christianity stands or falls on the fact of the physical resurrection:
“If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” (1 Corinthians 15:13–14 NIV11).
Without the resurrection we cannot explain the existence of the early church:
“If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus with no more than human hopes...