Michael L. Wiltcher

Encourager, Prayer Warrior, Pastor, Author, and a Worshipper of God

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The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that they had actually seen, talked with and eaten with the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.

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The light of the resurrection, therefore, casts its ‘back shadow’ on previous events—that is, the resurrection serves as the hermeneutical key by which the past is interpreted as having contained signs pointing to what has now begun to unfold.
Joel B. Green

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And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is in vain [it amounts to nothing] and your faith is devoid of truth and is fruitless (without effect, empty, imaginary, and unfounded).

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If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with Him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe His atoning death was accepted.

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Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die, I risk my whole eternity on the resurrection.
Spurgeon

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Bishop Azariah, the first native Indian Bishop of the Church of South India, was asked, “If you were in a village where they had never heard of Christ, what would you preach upon?” Bishop Azariah said, with no hesitation, “The resurrection.

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Genesis ends with Joseph’s death. Deuteronomy ends with Moses’s death. Joshua ends with Joshua’s death. The Gospels end with Jesus’s resurrection. And that changes everything.
Tony Merida

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Christ has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so. This is the beginning of the New Creation: a new chapter in cosmic history has opened.
C. S. Lewis

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The Resurrection is the central theme in every Christian sermon reported in the Acts. The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the ‘gospel’ or good news which the Christians brought.
C.S. Lewis

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And if Christ has not been raised, all of our preaching has been for nothing and your faith is useless. Moreover, if the dead are not raised, that would mean that we are false witnesses who are misrepresenting God.
Apostle Paul

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God wants us not just to believe in Jesus’ resurrection but to be transformed by it and to receive the power we need to live the way we know we ought.
Adrian Warnock

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I'm totally convinced that the resurrection of Jesus is the most crucial bridge between reality and life. Knowing the truth of this event is the engine that drives the quest for spiritual victory.
Gary Habermas

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The book of Romans is suffused with resurrection. Squeeze this letter at any point, and resurrection spills out; hold it up to the light, and you can see Easter sparkling all the way through.
N.T. Wright

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The resurrection is the first article of the Christian faith and the demonstration of all the rest.
Paul Beasley-Murray

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Our salvation consists of both a bloody cross and an empty tomb, both a Friday afternoon’s agony and a Sunday mornings’ vindication—and the latter is not merely proof of the gospel, but part of the gospel.
Gavin Ortlund

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If Christ is not risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is risen, nothing else matters.
Jaroslav Pelikan

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Attempts to make sense of the Bible that do not give prolonged thought to integrating the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus are doomed to failure, at best exercises in irrelevance.
,D.A. Carson

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3 Days that change everything: Good Friday. Resurrection Sunday. Day of Pentecost.

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The entire Bible pivots on one weekend in Jerusalem about two thousand years ago.
D A Carson

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The apostles understood the resurrection as the lynchpin of Christianity—integral to every aspect of life and thought—and therefore so should we.
Ross Clifford & Philip Johnson