1st Corinthians 15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
If Jesus were to deal only with the repair of our imbalances, and died for our sins, He would not have solved the age-old problem of the grave. This “grave” reality, no pun intended, has haunted the rich and famous as well as your everyday John Doe, from the least to the greatest and everyone in between.
The whole end purpose of the plan of salvation is to restore that which was lost through sin, and even though forgiveness and righteousness are excellent things to be sought after, if at the end of the day we would still be dead and buried forever, what sense would it make?
God will not put a plan of action together, that will involve the slaying of His Son, if it would not make sense after all is said and done. Therefore, when we celebrate Christ, we should always do so with the understanding, that His free gift to us will result in eternal life, as the end product, if we so choose. Paul reasons it this way.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!