So far in The Story, we\u2019ve traced it from creation and the garden, through the fall and the flood, to God\u2019s covenant with Abraham; from the exodus and the law, to the conquest and the kingdom under David; through the heartbreak of exile\u2014and then last week, to the arrival of Christ, the long-promised Savior who stepped into history to redeem what was lost.<\/p>\n
But today, in this message, we reach the climax. If the Bible is the Story of everything, then the Resurrection of Jesus is the hinge upon which everything turns. We aren’t just celebrating a religious holiday; we are celebrating the day the ending of your story might be rewritten\u2026 from “Death” to “Life.”<\/p>\n
To understand how we fit into this victorious story, we must look at how we respond to the “first importance” of the Gospel, which is the Good News that Jesus saves!<\/p>\n
In the apostle Paul\u2019s first letter to the Corinthians, he reminded them of the first importance of the gospel he had preached to them in order to strengthen their faith in Christ\u2019s death, burial, and resurrection and warn them from believing in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14139,"template":"","tags":[2034],"series":[2988],"scripture-book":[1313],"scripture-chapter":[1348],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-14138","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-easter","series-the-story","scripture-book-1-corinthians","scripture-chapter-1348","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/14138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/14138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14140,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/14138\/revisions\/14140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=14138"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=14138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}