Sermon Series: Gospel         
Title: Resurrection   
Text: John 20:1-18

If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

– 1 Corinthians 15:14

Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus

·        Clarity of the Biblical story

·        Eyewitness accounts

·        Jesus showed himself to over 500 people

·        Five non-Christian resources proclaim it

·        Crucifixion was a curse for Jewish people

·        The brutality of his death

·        His closest followers were willing to die for him

·        The unlikelihood of the Christian church working

·        The lives that have been changed

“For he (Jesus) appeared to them alive again, the third day: as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him.”

– Josephus (94 AD)

Anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. – Deuteronomy 21:23b