If you are considering Christianity in the light of Charlie Kirk’s death, you must understand that Jesus Christ truly rose again from the grave. Jesus was crucified, dead & buried. He was placed in a tomb guarded by soldiers. On the 3rd day, he rose again. The apostles, who adored Jesus and saw him crucified, all saw him again after his death, in his resurrected body. They all (except John) died for this truth. But they wouldn’t die for a lie. They touched the holes in hands. They broke bread with him. They are the fish he cooked for them for breakfast. These were men of virtue, who each condemned lying. They themselves weren’t liars. They did not disarm the Roman soldiers who guarded the tomb, in order to take Jesus’ body. They were neither deluded by witchcraft nor the devil, because their faith was holy. They performed miracles to testify to the truth they preached. They had no motive to lie; they lived in poverty, giving up all they had. They didn’t seek power; they were hated by Jewish and Gentile authorities alike. They didn’t seek popularity; many despised their message of repentance. To save themselves from being killed, they could have confessed they had invented tall tales about Christ. But they did no such thing, because they knew the gospel was true. Would you die for a lie that you knew to be a lie? Of course not. Neither would they. Neither did they. They knew the truth. They were martyrs for Christ. The blood of such martyrs is the seed of the church. At the time they wrote, men could have sought to disprove them, but they didn’t. The Jewish and Roman authorities could have produced the body of Jesus, but no-one ever could. Josephus the Jewish historian wrote respectfully of Jesus. Tacitus the Roman historian wrote about Jesus’ life and death, of the hatred of the people against the first Christians, and the Christians’ courage. Suetonius wrote of Christ also. Pliny the Younger affirmed to emperor Trajan the existence of many who considered Jesus Christ as God. According to Tertullian, the emperor Tiberias even sought to add Jesus to the pantheon of Roman gods. Noble men in every century wrote warmly of Christ. 100 years after Jesus, Justin Martyr affirmed that even many savages and nomads believed in Christ, as well as the civilized. Tertullian explained that Christians filled the Roman empire: “We are but lately sprung up, and we already fill whatever acknowledges your power, the cities, the isles, the fortresses, the towns, and the assemblies of the people.” Not one year of history can be found in which the world has lacked a believer in Jesus. The blood of the martyrs was poured out for 300 years after Christ’s death, under 10 Roman persecutions. The gospel was no sudden invention of man either. Christ’s death had been promised for centuries. God comforted Adam & Eve with the promise that Eve's seed Christ would crush Satan (Genesis 3.15). God spoke through Daniel that Christ would die around the year we now know as 33 A.D. (Daniel 9.24-27) God spoke through Isaiah that Christ would die to atone for the sins of his people, and yet live (Isaiah 53); and be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7.14). God spoke through his prophets, that Christ would be pierced (Zechariah 12.10) in his hands and feet (Psalm 22.16). God spoke through Hosea that Christ would rise again on the third day (Hosea 6.2) God spoke through David, that Christ was God himself (Psalm 45.6-7, 110.1). God spoke through David of the body prepared for Christ in his incarnation (Ps. 40). Ancient men believed the promise of Christ’s coming, and when he came, he did all that God said he would do. This is all in the Bible. Read it. Jesus died in the place of sinners. All who repent of their sins and believe in him will not perish in hell, but have everlasting life in heaven with God forever. Today is the day to read the gospels. Today is the day to know the truth, & the truth shall set you free.