In the great resurrection chapter of the Bible Paul writes, “So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 15:54-57).
The force of the resurrection is revealed. Paul states clearly in Romans 1:3-4, that Jesus Christ was “declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.” Jesus made incredible claims before He died. Once He said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." That statement was vindicated when the stone was rolled away and the grave was revealed to be empty.
The force of the resurrection is also released by us through the indwelling Holy Spirit. In Acts 1:8 we read, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." It is good to remember that the teaching of Jesus was complete before He went to the cross. But the disciples were unable to preach His truth. They had the theory but they lacked the power. But on the basis of the cross, the resurrection, and the ascension, Jesus poured out His Spirit, in liberating resurrection life, and those weak disciples, filled with His life, boldly went everywhere making the Savior known. They could now preach with fearlessness and suffer even unto death.
In John Masefield's drama The Trial of Jesus, there is a striking scene in which the Roman centurion in command of the soldiers at the cross comes back to Pilate to hand in his report of the day's work. After the report is given, Pilate's wife beckons to the centurion and begs him to tell how the Prisoner died. When the story has been told, she suddenly asks, "Do you think He is dead?" "No, lady," answers the centurion, "I don't." "Then where is He?" to which the Roman replies, "Let loose in the world, lady, where ... no one can stop His truth."
And so His truth has been let loose, for as soon as Jesus was risen and ascended, He empowered His disciples to make known the gospel of the resurrection throughout the whole of the then-known world. Look to this gospel of the resurrection as a fact, a faith, and a force in Christ—to believe and receive. And having believed and received it, go out to a lost world and tell men and women that Jesus died and rose again to be the Savior of sinners.