Witness To The Resurrection; 1Cor. 15:3-8

Delivered during the Sunday Morning Worship Service, 4/20/2025. In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul lists a substantial number of saints and apostles who were eyewitnesses to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. He places himself at the very end of the list, humbly suggesting that he was the least worthy to have been given such an eternal privilege. We will analyze his list, concentrating on both the number and apostolic authority of the witnesses. We will then change our focus to the time Paul encountered the Resurrected Christ on the road to Damascus. Paul's conversion is perhaps the most extraordinary illustration of what happens to a soul when it comes "face-to-face" with the Resurrected Christ and is regenerated by the Holy Spirit. We will carefully study what happens to Paul and then realize that Paul's radical transformation is the same miracle that occurs to every true Christian, when they see Jesus with the eyes of their soul and become a living testimony of a life forever changed as a witness to the Resurrection.