Did you Did Jesus actually die?

And if he did, what relevance does that have for our lives today?

As we commemorate Good Friday on Truth for Life, we'll explore the facts surrounding

Jesus' death and resurrection

and think together about why these events are supremely relevant for us even 2,000 years later.

Alastair Begg is teaching from the opening verses of Chapter 16 in Mark's Gospel.

Well, it goes with saying, I think, that the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is at the very

core of the Christian faith.

It's not an addendum.

It's not extraneous in any way.

And whenever people discover that Jesus is alive, then their lives have to reckon with that.

Saul of Tarsus, as a religious Jew, was totally convinced that Jesus was dead, that the gospel story was a fraud,

and that the people who were the followers of Jesus

deserve nothing better than to be either imprisoned or killed.

And then dramatically, one day, he was literally floored to discover that he was wrong

and that Jesus was alive.

As a result, he became a preacher of the good news that he had previously

rejected. And he became just wonderful at providing a very brief statement of the essentials of

Christian faith. Christianity, without without the resurrection is not simply Christianity

without its final chapter. It's not Christianity at all. So what I'd like to do is to examine

this this morning very, very simply, to take the approach of the three hours.

And the three hours this morning are, first of all, to look at the record, then to say something

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