Hello, my friends. Welcome to another follow-in favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the

amazing John, by the way. Welcome, John. Thank you, Hank. John, you know how we do this? We're going to

take one question from this week's Come Follow Me lesson. The lesson is on 1 Corinthians 14 through

16, and the question is this, John, what does the phrase, if Christ be not raised, your faith is in

vain, mean to you? So in other words, what's the big deal about Christ's resurrection? How would

you answer that, John? Yeah, the resurrection is kind of the evidence that the Atonement worked,

that Jesus was able to conquer sin and death, and that all of us will now live again. So you take

away that. What have we got? That's what Paul used as evidence. God has raised him up, and that

means all of this works. I mean, what would it be without that? I guess that's what that means.

Now, other people had done miracles before. Other people had given this similar message to Christ

before. It was this mission that no one had ever done before. The Atonement, the crucifixion,

the resurrection of Jesus. That's what makes him unique. The Bible dictionary says the greatest

of all his miracles is his resurrection, and if you admit that, meaning if you believe Christ was

truly resurrected, he was dead, came back to life, never going to die again, can leave the planet,

come and go at will. If you believe that, every other miracle is absolutely possible. In fact,

it's probable. If this guy can do that, what else can he do? Right. Then anything we think about

the Uriman Thumbam or anything else is nothing compared to someone who has brutally killed the way

he was and laid in a tomb for so many days and then came back. I like what you said, Hank, a lot

of people said wise things, but name one that came back from the dead. Name anybody who's come back

from the dead. So more than just wise sayings, he conquered death and sin, and that's why without

that our faith is vain. I remember reading the story of Jonah once and someone said, do you really

think Jonah was inside of a whale? Doesn't that seem kind of far-fetched? And I said, you know,

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