Hallelujah Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed.

Hallelujah. This is the ancient greetings that goes way back to the early church

where greeted one another on Resurrection Sunday.

And I pray that it will be truly blessed for you and for yours.

The Bible said that the very power that raised Jesus from the dead is working in us the believers.

Do you believe that?

Turn with me if you haven't already to Acts chapter 17.

The Apostle Paul finds himself in the city of Athens all alone.

And at this point of history, Greece has passed its peak.

It was on the decline, just like our Western civilization today.

The false religions were rampant throughout the Greek culture. And because of that, the last

thing these Athenians needed, the last thing is another philosopher. There were up to the

eyeballs with philosophers. The last thing they needed is another fangled teaching about something

new. They were knee-deep in false teaching. The last thing they needed is a new religion. They were

swimming in all sorts of false religions. What they desperately needed is what our culture needs today

the need to know the truth about the only

one who can save them. The only one, the only one true God, who revealed himself fully and

completely in the person of Jesus Christ, his son. So he stands on that hill, known as Mars Hill. And after he got their

attention, he began to tell them about the God of heaven and earth, the God who rose from

the dead after three days of being buried, the God who their only hope for escaping the judgment that is coming

upon the world. Paul's message is very simple, really simple, and the problem is they stumbled

over its simplicity. What is it? That the resurrection of Jesus is the proof that he is the only one true God who became man,

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