Easter Sunday is Grounded in the Most important Historical Event in Human History

The most important event in all of history is the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christians the world over will celebrate the resurrection during solemn and joyous Easter services in April. In fact Christians celebrate the resurrection every Sunday, as most have changed the observance of the sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the first day of the week in honor of the resurrection. Although the sacred observances of Easter are of great importance, the fact that the resurrection is a historical event is equally important.

There is profound spiritual significance to the observance of the Easter Holiday. Taking time to reflect upon the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross of Calvary and the victory that He obtained over death on Easter Sunday is a valuable spiritual exercise for the Christian. In as much as these observances motivate the Christian to focus on Christ, the Christian is pointed in the right direction. After all, it is all about God, and anything that takes one's focus off oneself and directs attention toward God is profitable.

The object of the observance of Easter is the heart of the Christian faith. The redemption bought by Christ on the cross is the cause of any good that can emanate from man, and the ultimate manifestation of all of the goodness of God toward man. There can be no argument that the Easter celebration's object is the resurrection, the most important sacred and spiritual act of a loving and gracious God.

It is precisely the spiritual value of the resurrection that makes it the most important event in history. The Apostle Paul put it like this in I Cor. 15:14, “And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching in vain, and your faith is also vain”. According to Paul, in sacred scripture, the Christian religion rises and falls on the resurrection of Christ.

On the heels of the fall of Christianity is the fall of Western Civilization in general and The United States of America specifically. However that is of small consequence in relationship to all else that cannot stand apart from Christianity. If there is no resurrection, and thus, no Christianity, there is no objective basis for morality, ethics, knowledge, or history.

A fluctuating morality and ethic is no ethic at all. One would never know what is right or wrong, because there could be no right or wrong. There would be no order on which to base knowledge, therefore one could know nothing, and history itself would be a jumble of incoherent happenings without meaning. That fact is there could be no communication without an unchangeable logic grounded on the creator who is Himself unchangeable, and who holds all things in order.

Without an unchangeable logic you could not even be reading this article, or anything else, including something that you wrote yourself, and make any sense out of it. In short, without Christianity, everything is meaningless, and you might as well “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.” Without the resurrection not only is preaching and faith vain, all things are vanity. The resurrection is truly the most important event in history. It gives one a purpose for living. The Westminster divines defined that purpose as “To glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.” It is only through Christ's victory over death at the resurrection that gives man the ability to fulfill that purpose.