Hi, this is Nathan W Bingham, host of Renewing Your Mind, and I want to invite you to join us in

Orlando for our Ligonier National Conference. Beginning May 23rd, Christians from around the

world will gather to hear biblical teaching and enjoy fellowship together.

This year's theme is the way, the truth, and the life.

Over three days, we'll focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

To learn more and register, visit Ligonier.org

slash 2024.

It's the resurrection of Christ that means that no amount of suffering, no amount of apparent hopelessness can never be ultimate.

This was the down payment for the human race. This is the firstborn of many brethren.

This represent a cosmic victory over the ultimate enemy of our humanity.

If Christ has not been raised,

then our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

Don't give me this patronizing stuff about religion being good for the soul.

You know, if religion is based upon a false premise if there's no corresponding reality

to the hope that lies within us then let's face it our preaching and exercise and futility

and the faith that we express is useless. It's useless if Christ

doesn't raise and if only for this life we have hope in Christ we are to be

pitied more than all men. I know in our culture we're told that the only meaningful

dimension of religion is what happens here and now in this world,

and where there's nothing worse than these pie-in-a-sky people who are always talking about heaven.

If I can't have my pie-in-the-sky, ladies gentlemen, I don't want to eat here.

Because if all we have is a religious experience and a religious hope that is confined and restricted to this world

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