If Jesus Christ had not risen:

 

1. The Old Testament would be
untrue. "He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures" (1
Cor. 15:4; see also Psa. 16:10, 11; Isa. 53:10, 11).

 

2. His own words would have been
proven false. "After three days I will rise again" (Matt. 27:63; see
also Matt. 16:21; 17:23; and 20:19).

 

3. We would have no New
Testament. It would never have been written.

 

4. There would be no gospel of
salvation. "I declare unto you the gospel. . . that He rose again. … If
Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins" (1 Cor.
15:1, 4, 17).

 

5. There would be no Church.
"He raised Him from the dead . . . and gave Him to be the head over all
things to the Church, which is His body" (Eph. 1:20-23). "He is the
head of the body, the Church:who [that is, Christ] is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead" (Col. 1:18).

 

6. We would have no
"blessed hope" of His coming again, and of believers’ resurrection.
"Looking for.. . .the glorious appearing of … Jesus Christ" (Titus
2:13). "The dead in Christ shall rise first" (1 Thess. 4:16).
"They that are Christ’s at His coming" (1 Cor. 15:23).

 

7. "Thy kingdom come"
would not be realized, because Christ is the King. "Born King of the
Jews" (Matt. 2:2). There could be no kingdom without the King.