Some understand it of a custom that was observed, as some of the ancients tell us, among many who professed the Christian name in the first ages, of baptizing some in the name and stead of catechumens dying without baptism. And does not this make us the vainest men in the world, and our office and ministry the vainest and most useless thing in the world? It remains a valuable resource for Christians seeking a deeper understanding of the Scriptures. It was the Lord's doing and should be marvellous in our eyes. It was bad enough that these associations had affected their thinking on an important matter like the resurrection, but this evil company could corrupt far more. O grave, where is thy victory? if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Thus did Paul. These meetings were important in proving to the disciples that Jesus was who He said He was. This was on mount Olivet, Luke 24 50. We work in a partnership with God, not because He needs us, but because He wants us to share in His work. 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). If death has power over Jesus, He is not God. They are most certain, and of the last importance." You have a general persuasion that these men have done right, and acted wisely, and as they ought, on this occasion; but why, if the dead rise not, seeing they may perhaps hasten their death, by provoking a jealous God, and have no hopes beyond it?" What does 1 Corinthians chapter 15 mean? | BibleRef.com Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to youunless you believed in vain. He knew this was not his own accomplishment, but it was the work of the grace of God in him. V. The apostle closes his argument with a caution, exhortation, and reproof. (4.) 1 Corinthians 10:15-33 Do not provoke the Lord to Jealousy Part 3. Things are in scripture many times said to be when they are manifested and made to appear; and this delivering up of the kingdom will make it manifest that he who appeared in the majesty of the sovereign king was, during this administration, a subject of God. This hope should be an anchor to their souls, firm and sure, Heb 6 19. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. How vain a thing were our faith and religion upon this supposition!" But this is not necessarily the case at all. Christians must let the Word of God shape their thinking, not the evil company of this world. For mortality shall be then swallowed up of life (2 Cor 5 4), and death perfectly subdued and conquered, and saints for ever delivered from its power. 3. Paul, knowing death is a defeated enemy because of Jesus work, can almost taunt death, and mock it. i. 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). All this carries an intimation along with it that it must be as easy to divine power to raise the dead, and recover their mouldered bodies, as out of the same materials to form so many different kinds of flesh and plants, and, for aught we know, celestial bodies as well as terrestrial ones. Where now is thy fatal artillery? "Now," says the apostle, "what fools are we to run these hazards, if we have no better hopes beyond death, if when we die we die wholly, and revive no more!" But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Is God supposed to do it or am I supposed to do it? These are the saving truths of our holy religion. He argues from the absurdity of his own conduct and that of other Christians upon this supposition. If the cross is the, iv. Christ hinders it from swallowing his saints when they die; but, when they rise again, death shall, as to them, be swallowed for ever. perished by the serpents, viz. 1. . A humble spirit is commonly a gracious one. 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. The apostle drops several hints in the course of it which it will be proper to notice: as, (1.) of our resurrection in the sense that He is our entrance fee to resurrection. The glorified humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all the dignity and power conferred on it, was no more than a glorious creature. Note, Though it is sinful to use any food in an idolatrous manner, it is no sin, after such . But, if there were no hopes after death, would not every wise man prefer an easy comfortable life before such a wretched one as the apostle led; nay, and endeavour to enjoy the comforts of life as fast as possible, because the continuance of it is short? Instead He rose. Is there any room to doubt a fact so well attested? Today, some are told to embrace death as a friend, but that is not Biblical thinking. 3. "Rouse yourselves, break off your sins by repentance: renounce and forsake every evil way, correct whatever is amiss, and do not, by sloth and stupidity, be led away into such conversation and principles as will sap your Christian hopes, and corrupt your practice." (2.) 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Christ has died for our sins. He shall have all power in heaven and earth till thenhe who loved us, and gave himself for us, and washed us from our sins in his own bloodhe who is so nearly related to us, and so much concerned for us. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God. II. As, I. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. i. Thus did our blessed Lord himself, Heb 12 2. 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? Note, Those who have the grace of God bestowed on them should take care that it be not in vain. From the first, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. (39-41) The analogy of living and heavenly bodies. All that is good in us is a stream from this fountain. Note, A humble spirit will be very apt to own and magnify the grace of God. Such Sadducees were the men against whom the apostle argued; otherwise his arguments had no force in them; for, though the body should never revive, yet, as long as the mind survived it, he might have much advantage from all the hazards he ran for Christ's sake. Vincent's Word Studies. This was in Galilee, Matt 28 10. 5. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. ii. There may have been many more meetings that are not described in the gospels. viii. explains why animals do not rise in the resurrection. He was seen by Paul himself, who by the grace of God was able to preach the gospel ( 8-10 ) 5. The resurrection of Jesus, iv. iv. , and because in Matthew 12:40 Jesus refers to, : Because this idea is so important, Paul repeats it twice in these two verses. Paul will tell the Corinthian Christians something they could not have known by reason or research. It was that doctrine which he had received, and delivered to them, en protoisamong the first, the principal. the gospel Paul preached to them. But in what sense can those who die martyrs for their religion be said to be baptized (that is, die martyrs) for the dead? What have they done? By which you are also saved, if you hold fast that word I preached to you. 1 Corinthians 15:1-19 - The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the resurrection of Jesus is not some add on to a more important work on the cross. Thus will they raise themselves, when they become immortal, to the honour of their Saviour and the praise of divine grace: they shall glory over vanquished death. b. If the deputed lord of this lower creation could do the one, cannot the Lord from heaven, the Lord of heaven and earth, do the other? By owning himself inferior to the other apostles: Not meet to be called an apostle. So also is the resurrection of the dead: Its hard to understand what our resurrection bodies will be like, so Paul will use contrast to help us, giving four contrasts between our present body and our future resurrection body. No. 2. What power is equal to this effect?" They take the submission of God the Son as proof that He must not be equal in deity to God the Father. With what acclamations will saints rising from the dead applaud him! (4.) Note, Christianity were a foolish profession if it proposed no hopes beyond this life, at least in such hazardous times as attended the first profession of it; it required men to risk all the blessings and comforts of this life, and to face and endure all the evils of it, without any future prospects. That this delegated royalty must at length be delivered up to the Father, from whom it was received (v. 24); for it is a power received for particular ends and purposes, a power to govern and protect his church till all the members of it be gathered in, and the enemies of it for ever subdued and destroyed (v. 25, 26), and when these ends shall be obtained the power and authority will not need to be continued. III. 5. The apostle, in this chapter, recommends the Gospel, and gives a summary of it, proves the resurrection of Christ . b. Let us even live like beasts, if we must die like them. : Even if your labor is vain to everyone else, and everyone else discounts or doesnt appreciate what you do for the Lord, . 1 Corinthians 15 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (complete) As he has risen, they shall rise; just as the lump is holy because the first fruits are so. 2. Enduring Word Bible Commentary 1 Corinthians Death is defeated by resurrection. For believers, the promise is sure: we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grainperhaps wheat or some other grain. He died for our sins, according to the scriptures; he was buried, and rose from the dead, according to the scriptures, according to the scripture-prophecies, and scripture-types. (1-2) Preface to the proclamation of Pauls gospel. Paul made it clear that to be absent from the body means to be present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8). Nor is this passage to be understood of the eternal dominion over all his creatures which belongs to him as God, but of a kingdom committed to him as Mediator and God-man, and that chiefly after his resurrection, when, having overcome, he sat down with his Father on his throne, Rev 3 21. 1 Corinthians 10:9. If there will be a resurrection and a future life, we should live and act as those who believe it, and should not give into such senseless and sottish notions as will debauch our morals, and render us loose and sensual in our lives. How bad was crucifixion? So that sin is deprived of its strength and sting, through Christ, that is, by his incarnation, suffering, and death. He was seen of Cephas, or Peter, then of the twelve, called so, though Judas was no longer among them, because this was their usual number; then he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once, many of whom were living when the apostle wrote this epistle, though some had fallen asleep. They have the best grounds in the world to build upon: they have all the assurance that can rationally be expected: as surely as Christ is risen, they shall rise; and Christ is as surely risen as the scriptures are true, and the word of God. We believe in vain, unless we continue and persevere in the faith of the gospel. When Jesus came upon the tomb of Lazarus, He, . He did not or will not rise at some general resurrection of the dead. O Hades, where is your victory? Note, There are many mysteries shown to us in the gospel; many truths that before were utterly unknown are there made known; many truths that were but dark and obscure before are there brought into open day, and plainly revealed; and many things are in part revealed that will never be fully known, nor perhaps clearly understood. And is this a character of his religion fit for a Christian to endure? We must have weak, frail, mortal bodies by descent from the first Adam, before we can have lively, spiritual, and immortal ones by the quickening power of the second. Their problem with the resurrection also indicated the source of many of their moral problems. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. If there is no resurrection, and no future judgment, then we may as well have the best time we can right now and Paul was a fool for putting himself in such discomfort and danger for the sake of the gospel. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. i. figuratively, in reference to his violent and wild human opponents (as he faced at Ephesus in Acts 19:21-41). Must not this circumstance endear the victory to us, and heighten our praise to God? 1 Corinthians 15 Bible Commentary - Matthew Henry (concise) - Christianity 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. If there is no principle of resurrection, then, ii. And is it not absurd for one who believes in Christ to admit a principle that involves so absurd an inference? We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. A, iv. Their condition who hope in Christ would be worse than that of other men. They got this bad thinking by associating either with Jews who did not believe in the resurrection (such as the Sadducees) or by associating with pagan, Greek philosophical types, who did not believe in the resurrection (Acts 17:31-32). We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website. Jesus will take His rightful place as, He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet, : Paul here refers to the one-thousand-year reign of Jesus described in Revelation 20:1-6. In the Old Testament, the offering of firstfruits brought one sheaf of grain to represent and anticipate the rest of the harvest (Leviticus 23:9-14). This is a question Paul doesnt really answer in the following verses, because the answer is obvious. If he had not been well assured that death would have been to his advantage, would he, in this stupid manner, have thrown away his life? And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching, If Christ is not risen, then our preaching is in vain, : If there is no resurrection, then Jesus is not risen, and Paul and the other apostles have preached. His boasting is both, (that is, in the Corinthian Christians) and, . This corruptible body must be made incorruptible, this mortal body must be changed into immortal, that the man may be capable of enjoying the happiness designed for him. Am I not, &c. It appears from this, and several other passages of the epistles to the Corinthians, that some of them, influenced probably by false teachers, who had crept in among them, objected to St. Paul's being an apostle, because he had not asserted his privilege in demanding and receiving such maintenance from the churches as was due to that office, inferring . For, since by man came death, it was every way proper that by man should come deliverance from it, or, which is all one, a resurrection, v. 21. We are dead; but behold we live again, and shall die no more. Jesus did not die as a mere martyr for a cause. . 11 30), because of their disorderly behaviour at the Lord's table. He begins by observing that there is a change made in the grain that is sown: It is not that body which shall be that is sown, but bare grain, of wheat or barley, etc. And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? So He receives resurrection first as, of Jesus described here uses the ancient Greek word, of our resurrection, does that mean He was the first one raised from the dead? As Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica. Note, Bad company and conversation are likely to make bad men. Those who profess this religion reproach themselves, by remaining without the knowledge of God; for it must be owing to their own sloth, and slight of God, that they are ignorant of him. : This truth is essential to the gospel. (2.) : When you plant a wheat seed, a big wheat seed does not come up. They could not have known this unless God revealed it to them. 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. Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures ( 3 ) 2. But who shall interpret this very obscure passage, which, though it consists of no more than three words, besides the articles, has had more than three times three senses put on it by interpreters? Verse-by-Verse Bible Commentary 1 Corinthians 10. . The natural body is flesh and blood, consisting of bones, muscles, nerves, veins, arteries, and their several fluids; and, as such, it is of a corruptible frame and form, liable to dissolution, to rot and moulder. He regarded himself as. Simply put, God the Father will always be God the. Indeed, he tells us elsewhere that he was not a whit behind the very chief apostles ( 2 Cor 11 5)for gifts, graces, service, and sufferings, inferior to none of them. This is the sting of death to you, unconverted ones, not that you are dying, but that after death is the judgment, and that you must stand before the Judge of the quick and dead to receive a sentence for the sins which you have committed in your body against him. (Spurgeon), The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law, : The principle of resurrection also proves that we are not under the law any longer. f. See how important the truth of the resurrection is! It was a doctrine of the first rank, a most necessary truth, That Christ died for our sins, and was buried, and rose again: or, in other words, that he was delivered for our offences and rose again for our justification ( Rom 4 25), that he was offered in sacrifice for our sins, and rose again, to show that he had procured forgiveness for them, and was accepted of God in this offering. Death may seize a believer, but cannot sting him, cannot hold him in his power. In the account given whence death had its power to hurt: The sting of death is sin. Nay, it is certain that the mind is to be the principal seat and subject of the heavenly glory and happiness. How Can We Model the Love of Christ through Being Considerate? 51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. It will be easy and natural to infer hence that we may live like beasts, and eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. The foundation may be strengthened, that the superstructure may be secured. , and therefore an enemy we need not fear. 1 Corinthians 15:9 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary (58) Final application: how our destiny of resurrection means we should stand fast for the Lord right now. III. It was one of the peculiar offices of an apostle to be a witness of our Saviour's resurrection (Luke 24 48); and, when Paul was called to the apostolical office, he was made an evidence of this sort; the Lord Jesus appeared to him by the way to Damascus, Acts 9 17. You can check these in your browser security settings. Grace, by definition, is given freely. Note, Those that are Christ's must rise, because of their relation to him. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. That, among other enemies, death must be destroyed (v. 26) or abolished; its powers over its members must be disannulled. Where pride is subdued there it is reasonable to believe grace reigns. 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 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. And there is no salvation in his name, but upon supposition of his death and resurrection. He sums up the argument with a very serious exhortation to Christians, to be resolved and diligent in their Lord's service, because they know they shall be so gloriously rewarded by him, ver 58. All this is to intimate to us that the bodies of the dead, when they rise, will be so far changed, that they will be fitted for the heavenly regions, and that there will be a variety of glories among the bodies of the dead, when they shall be raised, as there is among the sun, and moon, and stars, nay among the stars themselves. He was highly favoured of God, but he always endeavoured to keep up a mean opinion of himself, and to express it. We are not told much about this visit, but we can assume there was some special need for comfort and restoration in Peter that Jesus ministered to. It doesnt matter if you get the praise or the encouragement; sometimes you will and sometimes you wont. with your remembered faces; Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. It was what they had received; they had been convinced of the faith, believed it in their hearts, or at least made profession of doing so with their mouths. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. i. Paul expressed the same idea again in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18. It was bad enough that these associations had affected their thinking on an important matter like the resurrection, but this. Note, It is a shame in Christians not to have the knowledge of God. They preached the resurrection of Jesus, and the early Christians believed the resurrection of Jesus. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins accor. How are they raised up? If the first Adam could communicate to us natural and animal bodies, cannot the second Adam make our bodies spiritual ones? They say, Here is a Christians body, lying in a grave with no casket. This may be a foolish question (Paul calls his imaginary questioner Foolish one in 1 Corinthians 15:36), but it is a question Paul will answer. "Upon supposition there is no resurrection in your sense, no after-state and life, then dead Christians are quite lost. . 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 NKJV - For I am the least of the apostles, who Yet in the first chapter of Acts, Jesus brothers are among the followers of Jesus (Acts 1:14). 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 New King James Version 9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. : Paul would argue hard for his apostolic credentials, because he knew he had to be respected as an apostle. By keeping evil company, the Corinthian Christians were being conformed to this world, and they needed to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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