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Paul wrote in Romans that if Jesus did not rise from the dead all is in vain. All of Christianity hinges on the reality of one very important event; the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus lived, died, and rose again in a particular time and place of history. The truth of this isn't something relegated to spiritual mythology, but is rooted in real history. It can be, and has been extensively investigated. The Church was birthed in the very place where this miraculous event occurred. Should it not have happened, there would be little reason for the rise of the Church in this place and time. It wasn't popular to be a Christian, and it certainly wasn't safe. There was no power to gain, no influence to grasp, but it was something worth giving all to attain.

Paul, while he was still known as Saul, was a persecutor of Christians, torturing and killing them. It wasn't until the risen Lord appeared to him that he did a 180 and served the Lord taking the gospel to the Gentiles as God had appointed. Paul a very strict orthodox Jew and persecutor of Christians became a great apostle, who took the good news to the Gentiles, and wrote about one third of the New Testament. He suffered persecution, poverty, jail, shipwrecks, and many other things as he gave his all for the good news considering it all joy.

Something remarkable happened that day over 2000 years ago when Jesus rose from the dead. Something the world had been waiting for that had been prophesied in amazing clarity throughout the Old Testament. The probability of one man fulfilling even 20 of the hundreds of prophesies is astronomical.

The good news is that while this even took place so very long ago, it is a continual present day reality in the world. The reason it is so very vital to the Christian faith isn't that it is merely an intellectual fact we believe, but a reality we experience. On the one hand there is much research to produce a good case for the Resurrection. But it isn't the validity of the fact alone that does us any good. It's that because of that event Jesus is alive today to live life with us in the present. We don't have to wait until we die and go to heaven to live life with Jesus. Jesus is the life now and He produces that eternal reality in us in the present because of the death he defeated that day when the stone rolled away.

What Jesus did that day was done in eternity. It was done for all who have their faith in God, for it was the faith of the people before Christ lived on earth that was accredited

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