The key component of Christian faith is the belief in the actual resurrection of Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus is God's plan for us to be saved and have eternal life. That makes the resurrection of Jesus most significant.   God has shown us the way to salvation and eternal life through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus' resurrection provides evidence that mankind can have victory over death. Jesus walked on this Earth as a man, then died, then resurrected from the dead, and is living forever. All of us can also have eternal life by having resurrection faith, by putting our faith and hope in the work of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:21, "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God."). If we have faith in God we will go through the same process as Jesus. Our body will die (unless the rapture occurs), and at the return of Christ we will be given our glorified bodies just as it happened to Jesus. We will live forever. Jesus was the first man to be resurrected from the dead and live forever. We can follow in His footsteps with resurrection faith in our hearts.

1PETER 1 BIBLE SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:21, "Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God."

God desires for all of us to have eternal life. God has such a love for us that he gave his only begotten Son as a ransom so that all of us could be saved. All we have to do is believe in him and we will have eternal life (John 3:15-18, "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."). We must believe with our whole heart in Jesus Christ. We must believe in His ministry, that He died for our sins, He resurrected from the dead to show we can have victory over death, and that we can live forever by going the way of Jesus. If we have resurrection faith, we will have eternal life.

JOHN 3 BIBLE SCRIPTURE John 3:15, "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."

The actual resurrection of a dead person is hard for us to believe because everything we see in this world is corruptible. It is decaying, growing old, and dying. We see death and decay everywhere. We see people grow old, we see the leaves turn brown, we see things rust, and we see that every living thing has a physical death in this world. This is why Jesus' resurrection is so important for us to understand and believe. His resurrection demonstrated that He was not of this world. His death was swallowed up in victory. He showed us a life without sin and death, an eternal life. The Bible tells us that only through Him can we can have victory over death (1 Corinthians 15:54-55, "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? .").   Jesus is the door. All we need to have is resurrection faith.

1 CORINTHIANS 15 BIBLE SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 15:54, "So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."