1Corinthians 15:3-8 Christ died for our sins, And that He was buried, and that He has been raised on the third day, And that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve; Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers at one time. Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; And last of all He appeared to me also,

The most wonderful thing about Christ is not only the way He died, but that He did not remain in death. On the third day Christ rose from the grave. This is a historical fact which no historians can overturn. He resurrected with a body and appeared to His disciples many times for forty days. Many modern critics have dismissed the resurrection as a myth or a story that the early disciples fabricated. But the fact that so many witnesses saw Christ after His resurrection, and the fact that their encounter with the resurrected Christ brought about profound changes in their lives, are strong proof that the resurrection is not a fabrication.Before Christ's resurrection the disciples were fearful and disheartened; Peter even denied the Lord three times. After His resurrection the same group of people became bold and aggressive. Peter was the first one to stand up at Pentecost to preach to more than three thousand people. No fabrication can produce such a life-transforming change; nor could the disciples have been in any kind of religious hallucination, because all of them spoke soberly and behaved responsibly. The early church was not a community of self-deceived lunatics but a body of proper, upright, and sober-minded believers. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest historical fact in the history of mankind. It changes the course of human history and opens the way for man to have a new life in Christ.