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who had seen Him after. His resurrection. James, Peter, the apostles in a body, and “ five hundred brethren at once” had been with the risen Lord. Having seen Him, how could they doubt that “ this same Jesus” had died but rose again? Not only had they seen Him but they had also borne wit ness to the fact of His resurrection. Paul uses two cogent arguments for the validity of the resurrection. In the first plaice, “ If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised” (v. 16). The next point follows naturally: “ And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain [fu tile]; ye are yet in your sins” (vs. 16, 17). T o deny the power of God to raise the dead is to dis credit Christ’s testimony that He did rise. Then, too, the apostles would be found false witnesses of God, for they had pro claimed that God had raised Christ. If this were not true, then they were arch liars. If God raised not Christ, they and all Christians have been most tragically de ceived and have clung to a phantom hope. Of what tremendous eternal import is this issue 1 All conjecture is needless, however, for the Lord Jesus Christ actually “was raised again for our justification”— raised that we might be looked upon as righteous in God’s sight because of Christ’s death in our stead. Upon supposition we need not depend, for the resurrection fact, the foundation stone of our faith, is the best authenticated event of all history. The blessed reality of a living Lord is the basis of our faith and teaching. His death changed the time sched ule of the world, and His resurrection de termined the eternal destiny of sinful human souls. “ Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the firstfruits of them that slept” (v. 20). Our hope is not an empty, vague mental illusion, but a gloriously at tested and triumphant certainty; because He lives, Helps fo r the Leader I. 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