1 Corinthians 15 - Daily Summary
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The first part of 1 Corinthians 15 concerns Christ's death and resurrection. Paul emphasizes in verse 1 and 2 that he wants to remind the Corinthian church of the gospel he has already preached about, as by the gospel we are saved.
He says that Christ died to cleanse us of our sin, buried, and res after three days, and appeared to many people. Then, He appeared to Paul later. Paul is humble and does not consider himself an apostle - for he had once persecuted God's church, but he works the hardest. But this hard work does not comes from Him but the grace of God with him.
The second part also concerns a resurrection: a resurrection of the dead. Paul says that, if Christ has been raised from the dead, the dead can too, since Christ was dead. Also, if Christ was not raised up again, our faith is useless and we still are not saved from sin, but Christ was raised. This emphasizes the importance of the resurrection we sometimes oversee.
Verse 21 and 22 says that death came through one man - Adam - but the dead will be ressurected through one man - Jesus. Death will be defeated, for death has "everything under his feet", but not God. The ressurection is important - if it never happened, baptism will be useless too.
Paul then says the ressurection body - the body after the ressurection is a spiritual body rather than a natural body. We will bear the image of a heavenly man and we will be imperishable and glorious in that ressurected form.
That's all for today!
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