I invite you to take a hymnal now and turn to page 245 because to my great delight the morning

text is found printed in the hymnal. I didn't know that was going to be the case, but when I saw it, I thought, well, let's read it together instead of my just reading it four years. So it's number 245 in the hymnal. It's entitled Christ's resurrection and hours.

It's taken from 1 Corinthians 1512 to 20.

And I invite you energetically now to read these words of God with me. Shall we read in unison? Now if Christ is

proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no

resurrection of the dead?

If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain, and your faith has been in vain.

We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise, if it is

true that the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised.

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile,

and you are still in your sins,

then those also who have died in Christ have perished.

If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pity.

But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead the first

fruits of those who have died. But in fact, Christ has been raised to the first roots of those who have died.

Two weeks ago, I asked the question, what does forgiveness look like?

When you forgive somebody who wrongs you, what does it look like?

And we answered the question with a definition

from Thomas Watson in his great old book,

Body of Divinity. and the definition included these seven elements, resisting

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