The Road to Redemption — Easter

This Easter message in The Road to Redemption moves through Matthew 28, noting that the resurrection account begins not with celebration but with grief, and that women, whose testimony carried no legal weight in that culture, were the first witnesses, an unlikely detail for an invented story. The teaching lays out historical evidences: Jesus' crucifixion is attested even by hostile sources, the tomb was empty (admitted by the guards' bribe), more than five hundred saw the risen Christ (1 Corinthians 15), and the transformed, martyred disciples did not die for a known lie. The personal turn is direct. If the resurrection is true, Jesus is who He claimed, death is defeated, and there is no neutral response. Baptism pictures dying and rising with Christ (Romans 6), and resurrection power is offered as a present reality, not only a future hope.