Jesus’ Resurrection is Not Fake News

While the forensic, physical, legal, and countless other pieces of evidence concerning Jesus' resurrection is enormously compelling, for many, Jesus remains a really good dead teacher, not our risen Lord. But besides the eyewitness accounts, and no one ever producing a dead body, there's two thousand years worth of transformational testimonies--people whose lives have been impacted by a living Savior--people of all ages, cultures, nations, tribes, and people-groups. A once radical Jewish terrorist named Saul, convinced Jesus was a dead false Messiah, actually encountered the risen Christ on the road to persecute His followers. That changed everything for him personally, including his name from Saul to Paul. He writes: "Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures..." (1 Corinthians 15:14a NIV) So is your Jesus alive or still in some unmarked grave in Jerusalem? Nothing matters more!