January 8, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
1 Corinthians 15 (NIV)
The Resurrection of Christ
1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.……Continue Reading
Christ died for our sins, was buried, and was raised in 3 days! Everything we do in the Christian life is because we believe in that basic truth. When I read what Paul says in verse 19 “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.” I thought while living a Christian life brings us many benefits of being a good person, caring for others, and hopefully making this world a better place it also comes with many challenges of dying to self, chosing the more difficult paths many times to not become corrupted by this world. and why? for what? For a hope beyond this world! If we only have hope in the short term satisfaction this world offers, that is really no hope at all and it does seem senseless. But when we have the Hope in Christ based in that basic truth of what He did for each of us, now that is true Hope to get us through every up and down this temporary life will throw at us.
1 Corinthians 15
1 Corinthians 15
1 Corinthians 15
amen Kelly!!!! The central beliefs of the gospel are spelt out. Christ died. Was buried and rose again. 500 people at the same time saw him after Death. Were they all hallucinating!! Corinth of Greek beliefs. Did not believe in a bodily resurrection. Paul states the soul and the body will be resurrected . I am the resurrection and the life!!!! Is there any better words!! When he rose, he represents us!! Because he rose, he defeated death. And we also will be raised!! Hallelujah!!!
Our new heavenly bodies. These bodies Perishable. Prone to sickness and decay. Our spiritual bodies never to see sickness weakness. Or death. When I see people with mental and physical ailments. Love to shake their hands and picture them in heaven. Complete. What hope we have if we are suffering
Paul summarizes the entire gospel in one statement: ”For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,“
I Corinthians 15:3-4 NKJV
He also gives a detailed description of the Resurrection and how our flesh dies and yet how we will live again a spiritual body.
”But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.“
I Corinthians 15:35-38 NKJV
The resurrection of Jesus is an essential part of our Christian faith. It verifies that Jesus is who He claimed to be, it gives us hope for our future as to what Jesus is saving us to, it will be part of the reason Jesus will be exalted above everything except the Father Himself in His defeat of death, and it gives us motivation for the work we do for Christ, showing their is great value in doing anything that reveals Jesus or draws people to Him. Because the resurrection is a game changer! If this life is not all there is (and it’s not), then what use is there to be living like it is? Our greatest life and experiences are found in what is to come. And so where are we placing our treasures and efforts? How are we living that shows our greatest hope and reality is one day having a new body…a spiritual one..that is like Jesus’ body? What a picture and juxtaposition Paul makes in describing what we are now, compared to what we will be then. In fact, we should watch the company we keep avoiding the influence of those who would emphasize this life over our resurrected one. And let’s let in be our great motivator. The our labor for the Lord is never in vain because we serve a risen Savior who will raise us as well!!