Welcome to the For the Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and since it's Holy Week for the Christian faith and it's Easter this upcoming weekend. I want to lay out five blessings of the resurrection

to either teach you or remind you about the significance of Easter. You know, most people in the

professing church today treat Easter like a religious holiday. It's about inspiration. It's about hope.

It's about Jesus. It's about a new beginning. And that's great. And that's well and good. Some people, maybe it's immaturity, a lack of experience, maybe they just never been taught before like this, they'll treat it like an event for the kids because they love egg hunts, and they have their traditions, and there's lots of sweets, and Easter sort of has this, I'll just call it a hostile takeover, albeit I get it,

the dresses and the cuteness and the eggs and the traditions in the backyard and all of that.

But here's the deal. It's a bit of a hostile takeover because the Bible presents something

so much better and greater and more significant. The resurrection is the most significant event in human history.

Whatever the cultural or consumer traditions are of the day, none of them compare. None of them

compare. Now, why can I say and what I say with strong argumentation that the resurrection of

Jesus is the single most important event in human history? Well, it's because if Christ did not rise, Christianity collapses.

Without a resurrection, our faith isn't true.

And then that, by the way, is exactly what the Bible teaches.

In the book of 1st Corinthians, Paul the Apostle is talking about the resurrection.

And in verses 16 and 17 of 1 Corinthians chapter 15, I've got my Bible turn there.

If you want to grab your Bible, you can push pause. If you're listening or watching and go get it.

If you're on the fly, just listen to this. This is a passage you should maybe memorize this week

and certainly help your children if you have children understand this. This is glorious.

1 Corinthians 15. Verse 16 starts,

for if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. But verse 17, I mean, come on,

listen to this. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless, you are still in your

sins. Could there be any worse news? If Christ didn't raise or rise,

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