Don't leave the resurrection out!

From Acts 17 we learn about Paul's preaching in Athens.....

32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

33 So Paul departed from among them.

34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Rom 10:8    But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Rom 10:9    That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Rom 10:10    For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rom 10:11    For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

1Co 15:11    Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

1Co 15:12    Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

1Co 15:13    But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

1Co 15:14    And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

1Co 15:15    Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

1Co 15:16    For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

1Co 15:17    And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

1Co 15:18    Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

1Co 15:19    If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

1Co 15:20    But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

1Co 15:21    For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

1Co 15:22    For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

1Co 15:23    But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

1Co 15:24    Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

The is a consistent message here.

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.