ii. He was once scandalized by a crucified Christ; it infuriated him that one obviously cursed by God (according to Deuteronomy 21:23) should be honored as Messiah and Lord. We dont find freedom by focusing on ourselves, because, He who glories, let him glory in the LORD, : Paul uses this reference to Jeremiah 9:23-24 to show that God did it all this way so that God would get the glory. a. You see that the mark of a child of God is that by the grace of God he is what he is; what do, His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, : Though grace made Paul what he was, Paul still, i. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. We dont need to waver, we dont need to change direction, we dont need to fall, and we dont need to quit. I am not an apostle through the appointment of the other apostles. We dont become righteous by focusing on ourselves, because Jesus became for us righteousness. ii. What about the widows son in the days of Elijah (1 Kings 17:17-24) and Lazarus (John 11:38-44), among others? It is truly the, i. Paul reminds us of something important: death is an, . b. They did not come behind any of the churches in any gift, v. 7. i. A, iv. a. Of course, Paul did baptize a few in Corinth. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, it (and not from man, but from Jesus Christ, according to Galatians 1:11-12), and Paul. Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and, But that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, . Later, James became a leader in the church in Jerusalem (Acts 15:13-21; 21:18). The path for Gods glory is Christ crucified; the evidence of Gods glory is His choice of the lowly. a. Pauls third proof for the resurrection in this section is also compelling. From the first Adam, we all are made of dust, but from the last Adam we can be made heavenly. Rather, He is saying that the worlds wisdom and education does not bring us salvation in Jesus Christ. we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, mean that Paul predicted Jesus would come in his lifetime? ii. : The book of Acts does not record an occasion when Paul faced wild animals in an arena. Were the ones really right with God!, : There was the Jesus Party, who declared You all are so carnal, following after mere men. i. Paul tells them just what kind of apostle he is, a called apostle. Verse 3. At the core of the gospel are things that. Where is the scribe? They preached the resurrection of Jesus, and the early Christians believed the resurrection of Jesus. : Even if your labor is vain to everyone else, and everyone else discounts or doesnt appreciate what you do for the Lord, . Paul may be changing the names to protect the innocent, or to show mercy to the guilty. Paul knew that God gives His grace, we work hard, and the work of God is done. c. We preach Christ crucified: Instead of giving the Jews and Greeks what they demanded in deliverance and wisdom, God gave them something unexpected: a crucified Messiah. Yet, these positives were no great credit to the Corinthian Christians themselves. ii. Paul thought carefully about this letter. Apparently, some of the Corinthian Christians (probably those of the Paul Party) made a big deal of the fact that, lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name. iv. When you bury the body of a believer, you are sowing a seed that will come out of the earth as a resurrection body. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. e. Confirm you to the end: The Corinthian Christians had their strong points, and they had their weak points. 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Corinth was an important and wealthy city on the isthmus (narrow strip of land) separating Northern and Southern Greece. Someone once said to him, Well, what church are you in now? He said, I am in the true church at last. How many belong to it? Just my wife and myself, and I am not sure about her sometimes.. ii. Paul knows that he is not one of the twelve apostles, but he is on par with them because, like them, he is chosen by God. (Robertson), An apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, : With this, Paul emphasizes his point and already begins contending with the Christians of Corinth. The bottom line is this: is the church influencing the city, or is the city influencing the church? a. If my sins are not completely paid for before God, then I am still in my sins. Jesus was a unique case. iv. It doesnt matter if you get the praise or the encouragement; sometimes you will and sometimes you wont. You can also change some of your preferences. Click on the different category headings to find out more. He currently serves now as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara. describes the Christians marching orders at the rapture of the Church. Some mock the idea of resurrection. This remarkable, instant gathering of Christians unto Jesus in the clouds has been called the rapture, after the Latin word for caught up in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18. ii. Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed. (Read 1 Corinthians 15:1-11) The word resurrection, usually points out our existence beyond the grave. a. ii. This was the meeting where Jesus appeared in the room with the doors and windows shut, and breathed on the disciples, giving them the Holy Spirit. We write a letter by saying who the letter is to first, and we conclude with writing who the letter is from. Where is the disputer of this age? No one was present in the tomb with Him when His body transformed into a resurrection body. Pottery and Corinthian brass (a mixture of gold, sliver and copper) from the city were world famous. iii. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. iii. i. These bodies which are subject to disease, injury, and one day decay, are unsuited for heaven. (22-25) The wisdom of God, though foolish to the world, triumphs. When Paul explained it like this, it shows how foolish it is to focus on anyone but Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul deals more fully with what makes a person an apostle. The atoms in the body are taken up in grass and eaten by a steer, and the steer is slaughtered and another man eats the meat and takes the atom into his body. The words message of the cross sound kind of noble and religious to our twentieth-century ears. Paul uses this exact phrase five other times in the New Testament. So, even though our resurrection bodies come from our present bodies, we should not expect that they will be the same bodies or just improved bodies. All flesh is not the same flesh: There are all different kinds of bodies in Gods creation, including celestial bodies. It is better to bear trouble in this world, than to be miserable for ever. This was the. Is God supposed to do it or am I supposed to do it? 3. We may request cookies to be set on your device. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. If the cross is the, iv. The resurrection of Jesus, iv. Children are apt to be struck with novelty; but do not act like them. Paul quotes from an ancient, secular comedy play, Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God, : For Christians to resist Gods process of transformation by the renewing of our minds is to neglect the knowledge of God. At the first meeting of the resurrected Jesus with His disciples, Thomas was absent and Judas had killed himself. iii. All flesh is not the same flesh explains why animals do not rise in the resurrection. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds. I am of Cephas: There was the Peter Party, who declared We are following in the footsteps of the man who is first among all the apostles. those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? Though at the time of his writing 1 Corinthians it was still in the future, Pauls whole arrest, imprisonment, and journey to Rome as done for the sake of the resurrection of the dead (Acts 23:6, 24:15, and 24:21). Let him die the death of a dignified man. A truly Christian minister will seek much more to do spiritual good to men's souls, than to get the greatest applause to himself. i. i. O Death, where is your sting? The ancient Egyptians, at the end of a big banquet, often escorted a wooden image of a man in a coffin around the tables, telling people to have a good time now, because youll be dead sooner than you think. Einstein asked them, how much of all the knowledge in the world they had amongst themselves collectively, as a class. Thy teeth are broken, oh old lion, wherefore should I fear thee? Grace means that God gives freely, for His own reasons. This conflict had made them divide up into parties or cliques, each party having its own leader., i. Paul doesnt only consider believers in Corinth to be. Paul knew this by experience. They were not looking for the, : The Greek culture valued the pursuit of wisdom, usually expressed in high, academic, philosophical terms. i. Paul expressed the same idea again in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18. If one preaches the word with a reliance on, i. But largely, the smarter one sees himself, the less regard he has for God. Those who believe that Jesus gathers His people, may not refer to the last trumpet of the seven trumpets of Revelation at all, but simply refer to the, was a figure of speech that came from the Roman military, when they broke camp. (3-4) The content of the gospel Paul preached. That he does, : I am in constant peril of my life. Pauls life was lived so on the edge for Jesus Christ that he could say, , . His life was always on the line; there were always people out to kill him. The Romans destroyed Corinth in 146 B.C., but Julius Caesar rebuilt the city a hundred years later. Either the present dead in Christ are with the Lord in a spiritual body, awaiting their final resurrection body; or because of the nature of timeless eternity, they have received their resurrection bodies already because they live in the eternal now.. 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? e. If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. Pauls third proof for the resurrection in this section is also compelling. Death is defeated by resurrection. What message does a cruel, humiliating, unrelenting instrument of death have? This is not Pauls gospel in the sense that he created it or fashioned it; it is Pauls gospel in the sense that he personally believes it and spreads it. i. Those who believe that Jesus gathers His people after He has poured out His wrath on a Jesus-rejecting world sometimes argue that it is the last trumpet of judgment, cited in Revelation 11:15-19. Grace means that God gives freely, for His own reasons. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11. 1 Corinthians 15:1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, (NASB 1995 - Lockman)Now I make known 1Co 15:3-11 1:23,24 2:2-7 Ac 18:4,5 Ga 1:6-12 . The doctrine of Christ's death and resurrection, is the foundation of Christianity. But that the, : It would be strange and inappropriate for us to receive resurrection before Jesus. Grace is always first, peace always second. Secondly, it was right and proper for Paul to live as if the coming of Jesus was imminent, though he did not in fact know when Jesus would return. I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily, : Paul will boast a little here. Pottery and Corinthian brass (a mixture of gold, sliver and copper) from the city were world famous. : In the previous part of the chapter, Paul demonstrated beyond all doubt that Jesus rose from the dead, and the importance of that fact. i. Christ (Messiah) meant power, splendor, and triumph. But God cannot be found through human wisdom, but only through the, : The Corinthians wanted to believe that the gospel itself was a sublime form of wisdom, as the Greeks considered wisdom (. Without grace there is and can be no peace, but when grace is ours, peace must of necessity follow. (Lenski). Ancient writers considered Corinth rich, prosperous always great and wealthy (Mare). How can we die daily? f. His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord: In these first 10 verses, Paul refers to Jesus in every verse, for a total of 11 times. This passage also makes it clear that the individual doing the baptizing doesnt really affect the validity of the baptism. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. But our expectations of what God should do keep us from receiving that power and wisdom. Besides, I do not know whether I baptized any other. Over time, two things happened: the church lost its passion for Jesus and His gospel, and ivy began to grow on the archway. Let a man so consider us: Paul asks that he, and the other apostles ( us) be regarded by the Corinthians as servants. Paul uses this exact phrase five other times in the New Testament. You must not only work, but you must labour put forth all your strength; and you must work and labour in the Lord under his direction, and by his influence; for without him you can do nothing. (Clarke). What you sow: Paul says our bodies are like seeds which grow into resurrection bodies. (14-19) What if there is no resurrection? It isnt. The burial of Jesus is important for several reasons. all the credit for the change in His life. It was impossible for the Apostle to preach the gospel without presenting the message of the cross. At some point before He died, before the veil was torn in two, before He cried out, ii. Of whom the great part remain to the present, is compelling testimony of the truth of the resurrection of Jesus. It may simply be unrecorded, or Paul may mean . To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. Probably, was Pauls scribe (or, more technically, his, To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called, with a building where Christians meet. It wasnt so much that they thought Apollos was great, but that they were great for following him. : The cumulative testimony of these witnesses is overwhelming. Everything good the Corinthian Christians have from God has come to them by. a. We work in a partnership with God, not because He needs us, but because He wants us to share in His work. The hearing and trusting of the true gospel will bring the, . Instead, with loving heart, he begs them he pleads with them to be unified as believers. Paul made it clear that to be, ? He kept to His gospel, because for those who believed it (. While our present bodies are adapted for the environment of time and earth, our resurrection bodies will be adapted for the environment of eternity and heaven. . God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. c. Not with wisdom of words: How did Paul preach in Corinth? i. : The death of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, is the center of the gospel. Many things made Corinth famous. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. What happened to change them? Many things made Corinth famous. Some of them denied the reality of resurrection, while believing in a resurrected Jesus. Was Paul crucified for you? The great Roman statesman Cicero said: The cross, it speaks of that which is so shameful, so horrible, it should never be mentioned in polite society. If we were witnesses to the trial of Jesus when the crowd was shouting out Crucify him! : In Pauls day, the Jewish world was looking for a, . They have not been chosen because they are so great, but because God is so great. c. Enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and in all knowledge: This was the effect of grace in the life of the Corinthian Christians. What will Paul boast about? The actual Corinthian factions may have centered around people in the congregation, not the different apostles who ministered to them. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refusing them will have impact how our site functions. (42-44) Comparison of the two kinds of bodies. Then Paul wrote 1 Corinthians to respond to these reports. But dont expose Him to the horror and the humiliation of hanging on a cross. But God wanted, , and if we dont embrace the cross, even with all its strange contradictions and demands, then we are. But they still were known as. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. We are no longer subject to the penalty of the law (death), and we are set free from sin. I know thou art no more able to destroy me, but thou art sent as a messenger to conduct me to the golden gate wherein I shall enter and see my Saviours unveiled face for ever. Those who deny the deity of Jesus say this verse proves their point. , and therefore an enemy we need not fear. Trust God, rely on Him, v. If I neglect my end of the partnership, Gods grace doesnt accomplish all that it might, and is therefore given. Paul will often (more than 17 times in the letter) refer to Jesus as. : Jesus perfectly shows us, in His teaching and life, Gods wisdom. If it were if the teaching of baptismal regeneration were true then Paul could never thank God that he baptized so few in Corinth, and he, as an evangelist, could never say Christ did not send me to baptize. The resurrection of Jesus is also the. We know He lives because the historical evidence, , the brother of Jesus, who is seen as a prominent leader in the church in Acts 15. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site. Session 2: God's Answer Is Yes! However, we learn something just from the meaning of the ancient Greek word apostolos, which has the idea of a special ambassador. Paul was a special ambassador of Jesus Christ to the world and to the church. A distinction may be made between the trumpet of an angel and the trumpet of God. Paul tells them just what kind of apostle he is, . This was in constant use, because seamen were thus enabled to avoid sailing round the dangerous promontory of Malea. (Vincent) Sailors wanted to avoid the dangerous journey around Malea, which was indicated by two popular proverbs: Let him who sails around Malea forget his home, and Let him who sails around Malea first make his will. If the ship was too large to be dragged, the cargo was unloaded and loaded onto another ship on the other side of the isthmus. We may request cookies to be set on your device. 5. 6. . : A title designating not only master and boss, but also the, : The given name of the son of Mary, and adopted son of Joseph, which is the Greek pronunciation of, : This is the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew word for. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother. Were the ones really right with God! (Acts 18:24-25), iii. So, preaching a high moral standard is not preaching the gospel, preaching the universal fatherhood of God is not preaching the gospel, and preaching the universal brotherhood of man is not preaching the gospel. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. iii. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. Session 1: The God of All Comfort. He will. Were the ones really right with God!, vi. Paul writes this letter from Ephesus, where these people from Chloes household visited and told him about the condition of the the Corinthian church. This isnt the gathering of the world, but, iv.
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