1. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ- Luke 24:1-12/1 Corinthians 15:1-11

BUT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, AT EARLY DAWN, THEY WENT TO THE TOMB, TAKING THE SPICES THEY HAD PREPARED.  AND THEY FOUND THE STONE ROLLED AWAY FROM THE TOMB, BUT WHEN THEY WENT IN THEY DID NOT FIND THE BODY OF THE LORD JESUS.  WHILE THEY WERE PERPLEXED ABOUT THIS, BEHOLD, TWO MEN STOOD BY THEM IN DAZZLING APPAREL.  AND AS THEY WERE FRIGHTENED AND BOWED THEIR FACES TO THE GROUND, THE MEN SAID TO THEM, WHY DO YOU SEEK THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD?  HE IS NOT HERE, BUT HAS RISEN.  REMEMBER HOW HE TOLD YOU, WHILE HE WAS STILL IN GALILEE, THAT THE SON OF MAN MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF SINFUL MEN AND BE CRUCIFIED AND ON THE THIRD DAY RISE.  AND THEY REMEMBERED HIS WORDS, AND RETURNING FROM THE TOMB THEY TOLD ALL THESE THINGS TO THE ELEVEN AND TO ALL THE REST.  NOW IT WAS MARY MAGDALENE AND JOANNA AND MARY THE MOTHER OF JAMES AND THE OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM WHO TOLD THESE THINGS TO THE APOSTLES, BUT THESE SEEMED TO THEM AN IDLE TALE, AND THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THEM.  BUT PETER ROSE AND RAN TO THE TOMB; STOOPING AND LOOKING IN, HE SAW THE LINEN CLOTHS BY THEMSELVES; AND HE WENT HOME MARVELING AT WHAT HAD HAPPENED. LUKE 24:1-12

NOW I WOULD REMIND YOU, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OF THE GOSPEL I PREACHED TO YOU, WHICH YOU RECEIVED, IN WHICH YOU STAND, AND BY WHICH YOU ARE BEING SAVED, IF YOU HOLD FAST TO THE WORD I PREACHED TO YOU- UNLESS YOU BELIEVE IN VAIN.  FOR I DELIVERED TO YOUAS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE WHAT I RECEIVED: THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES, THAT HE WAS BURIED, THAT HE WAS RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES, HE APPEARED TO CEPHAS, THEN TO THE TWELVE.  THEN HE APPEARED TO MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED BROTHERS AND SISTERS AT ONE TIME, MOST OF WHOM ARE STILL ALIVE, THOUGH SOME HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP.  THEN HE APPEARED TO JAMES THEN TO THE APOSTLES.  LAST OF ALL, AS TO ONE UNTIMELY BORN, HE APPEARED ALSO TO ME.  FOR I AM THE LEAST OF THE APOSTLES, UNWORTHY TO BE CALLED AN APOSTLE, BECAUSE I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD.  BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD I AM WHAT I AM, AND HIS GRACE TOWARD ME WAS NOT IN VAIN.  ON THE CONTRARY, I WORKED HARDER THAN ANY OF THEM, THOUGH IT WAS NOT I, BUT THE GRACE OF GOD THAT IS WITH ME.  WHETHER THEN IT WAS I OR THEY, SO WE PREACH AND SO YOU BELIEVE. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11