If Christ Be Not Risen
March 21, 2008
Hello Beloved Ambassadors . . .
Sweet, sweet greetings to Phenomenal You in the Amazingly Amazing Name of our Darling Lord & Savior!
Yes, sweet greetings, indeed!
Today, I want us all to reflect upon our Darling King and what His Life, Death & Resurrection really means to us, His Disciples, Followers, Believers, Ambassadors of the Kingdom.
It appears that there have always been questions about whether or not He truly was raised from the dead. Let’s pull back the pages and hear what people were saying back in the days of the early Church. Let’s go to I Corinthians, Chaper 15.
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I Corinthians 15: 12-23
12)Â Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13)Â But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14)Â And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15)Â 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.
16)Â For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17)Â And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
18)Â Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19)Â If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20)Â But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21)Â For since by man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22)Â For as in Adam all die, even so, in Christ shall all be made alive.
23) But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming.
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Oh, Precious and Beloved of God, He is risen.
He’s alive and we are forgiven.
His arms are opened wide.
He’s Alive! He’s Alive! He’s Alive!
And we are alive in Him! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, indeed!
Blessings & Much Agape!
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Rev. Ora Stearns Smith
Ora International Ministries
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