If Christ Be Not Risen

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. - 1 Corinthians 15:13-19

1. If Christ is not risen, there is no resurrection.

1. If Christ is not risen, our preaching is vain, and your faith is vain.

1. If Christ is not risen, we have misrepresented God and deceived our hearers.

1. If Christ is not risen, he is an imposter.

1. If Christ is not risen, you shall die in your sins; for his work depends on his resurrection.

1. If Christ is not risen, all who have died believing in him are perished forever.

1. If Christ is not risen, we are of all men most miserable.

1. If Christ is not risen, all are without help, without hope, and without God in this world. “Because God hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead” (Acts 17:31).