Well, good morning. I want to welcome all of you to our service this morning. Thank you for choosing to worship with us. This morning and what a wonderful day it is as we celebrate the fact that on this particular Sunday of the year that Christ was raised from the dead and we celebrate that event on this Sunday, but that actually serves to explain why we call every Sunday the Lord's day because this day of the week, a Sunday, was the day that Christ was miraculously raised from the dead with explosive life.
And, and power. And so thank you for being with us today to help us to celebrate this event. what, in, in fact, let me have you turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 24. Luke chapter 24, with the time that I have with you, we're gonna be spending some time in Luke 24, reading and pondering the resurrection narrative that we find at the end.
of Luke's Gospel, and if you want to give a title to The message this morning, it would be convincing the first Easter skeptics, convincing the first Easter skeptics, and it might surprise you to find out who those skeptics are that needed the persuasion. Easter represents for so many of us, so many positive things. It represents an explosion of life. a resurrection of hope and faith and joy and believing trust in the Lord.
It's associated, Easter is associated with so many positive and wonderful things having to do with faith and belief that it may surprise you to, to consider this fact that on the first Easter, about 2000 years ago, Most of Christ's closest followers spent most of that first Easter disbelieving. The fact of Christ's resurrection from the dead. If they were here today, they'd say that first Easter, we blew it. We, we, we wasted the whole day....
