He is risen. (Mark 16:6)

Mark 16:6

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁶ but the angel said, “Don’t be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Look, this is where they laid his body.

The resurrection is vitally important for many reasons: 1.) Jesus kept His promise to rise from the dead, so we can believe He will keep all His other promises. 2.) The resurrection ensures that the ruler of God's eternal kingdom will be the living Christ, not just an idea, hope, or dream. 3.) Christ's resurrection gives us the assurance that we also will be resurrected. 4.) The power of God that brought Christ's body back from the dead is available to us to bring our morally and spiritually dead selves back to life so that we can change and grow (see 1 Corinthians 15:12-19). 5.)The resurrection provides the substance of the church's witness to the world. We do not merely tell lessons of life of a good teacher, we proclaim the reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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