As the Apostle Paul lays forth his case for the resurrection he gives his readers two options—truth or absurdity. He had given up too much, been through too much, and suffered too much to give the opposition an inch. Either his ministry is a sham and he’s promoting a lie or the resurrection is a fact and Christianity is true. There’s no middle ground, no third option; one must decide, it’s either truth or absurdity.

It was Justin Martyr who said, “But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead” (First Apology 67). The light that shined in the darkness of the first creation day was a foreshadowing of the resurrection of Christ. The light burst forth that dark tomb, and to this day overtakes the darkness of men’s hearts, bringing salvation to all those who look to Him.

The Apostle Paul had an encounter with Jesus on the Damascus road, and he was never the same again. The one who once gave everything for the Law and his Jewish traditions, ended up giving everything for His Lord and Savior. No task was too great, and no opposition was too strong to hold him back. His eyes were on the prize until the end, and his ministry labors could be summed up in one statement: For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.