Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast

with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. How do we know Jesus actually rose from the dead?

Today, we're reading 1st Corinthians 15. And if you haven't yet gotten the chance to read, that's okay,

but if you're able, pause this episode and do so now. In today's Devo, Grant wrote, we see in verses 1 through 11 the historical

reality of Christ's resurrection. Evidently some in the Corinthian Church denied the resurrection

of Christ and or the physical bodily resurrection of Christ as a whole. Paul sought to correct this way of thinking,

so he went on to discuss the implications of the resurrection in the rest of the chapter. And if you've

been around church for a while, you're probably a lot like me. Sometimes, we forget how mind-blowing

it is that Jesus actually rose from the grave. It's crazy. And if you're

like me and you've been around church for a bit, the novelty of this can tend to wear off. Not in the

sense that we aren't grateful, though at times we can grow complacent, and definitely not in the

sense that we no longer believe, because if we're in Christ, our eternity is secure. But what I mean by the

novelty wearing off is that we can forget how mind-blowing our belief in Jesus' resurrection from the

dead is to the person who has never, never in their whole life heard the story of his life, death,

burial, and resurrection. So how do we know Jesus actually rose from the grave?

How do we know that he was dead but conquered the grave?

Some skeptics, they'll claim Jesus' body was stolen.

They'll claim that Jesus' followers stole his body.

But then we must ask, how did the apostles overcome the soldiers,

move the stone, preeminently hide the body? Why would the apostles die for a lie?

It's important for us to remember that Jesus had an honorable burial. He was buried in a marked

tomb or a known tomb. Criminals, they'd typically be thrown off a cliff,

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