USELESS PREACHING

By Rick Mathes

1 Corinthians 15:14 (NASB77)
¹⁴  and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.

Jesus said, “I AM the resurrection and the life. Do you believe this?” My wife answered, “Yes!” I responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” I immediately attacked this fat an in doing so became a Christian in 1981. Now, however, I am reflecting back on what would change if his wasn’t true and I came up with a few scary aftermaths is if it was a fraud.

Most certainly all preachers would be dead in their tracks because any sermon fresh from the throne of grace emphasizes, “He is Rise.” Any sermon without emphasis is a fraud and sin against our Triune God. (Eloyim)

If He did not rise to life of His own volition, He was a liar and our faith would be dead. We would be without the hope of forgiveness and eternal life in heaven. All of our Christian doctrines would be for fools. These would leave all of us so called Christian still in sin and irrevocably destines to an eternity of frying on the skillet, flames licking at our flesh and into the bottomless abyss of the howling demons of smoldering darkness.

The only hope salvation vanishes with the death of God’s Son. Satan and his fallen angels would have been victorious. They killed the King. The devil’s rule forever would be certified by the rotting corpse of the Man from Galilee. From dust to dust, the Creator woud rejoin the dust He used for creation if He didn’t rise and step out of that tomb and ascend into the place He had with the Father before the beginning of time: on the throne of the universe and everlasting.

How miserable would life be if Jesus was not God and never rose from the dead? What is our plan B if plan A is still dead. The Jews and Greeks both laugh at us because we worship a God that was crucified!

This faith system of Christianity would make fools of us all. Consider all the promises Jesus made that would be false without the resurrection. The consequence of a false resurrection is to refute every pain and convincing evidence. You need more faith it didn’t happen that you need to believe it. In short, if you don’t believe He rose from the dead it is because you are ignoranct of the indisputable facts.