Core Truth: Someone has wisely said that “It seems like too many people and ministries go right back to business as usual after Easter is over. They celebrated the empty tomb, but they celebrated the empty tomb from their personal vantage point. Most people give very little thought to what the empty tomb requires of us once we accept Him as Lord and Savior, but in a world increasingly filled with hopelessness and despair our witness as to what Christ’s resurrection really means is needed now more than ever.”
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20
But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died…. Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when He comes back. After that the end will come, when He will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power. For Christ must reign until He humbles all His enemies beneath His feet. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. For the Scriptures say, ‘God has put all things under His authority. Then, when all things are under His authority, the Son will put Himself under God’s authority, so that God, who gave His Son authority over all things will be utterly supreme over everything everywhere.’