What could possibly be worse than living without hope?

It's one of the darkest places in all of life.

Maybe you've been there, it's awful.

Sinking into the darkness of despair usheres in a sense of futility that's unbearable.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall begins his sixth and final message in a brand

new Easter series.

It's called, Compeld by the Cross.

And in this final study, we'll examine what makes the crucifixion of Christ so devastating

and his resurrection from the dead so joyful.

Easter morning is God's solution to man's despair.

This morning we want to read from the Word of God as recorded in the 15th chapter of

First Corinthians.

Please locate that in your Bible.

You'll be reading beginning at verse 12, First Corinthians 15.

I'll be reading from a new living translation as you follow along.

First Corinthians 15 12 begins, but tell me this, since we preach that Christ rose from

the dead, what are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead?

Where if there's no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless and your faith

is useless.

And we apostles would be lying about God.

And we have said that God raised Christ from the grave, but that can't be true if there

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