Having confirmed the truth of our Saviour's resurrection, the apostle goes on to refute those among the Corinthians who said there would be none: If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 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. Where now is thy fatal artillery? 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. 3. He was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures ( 4 ) 3. Not only did they see Jesus after His death, but they saw Him in a manner which revolutionized their faith and trust in Him. Where is now thy sting, thy power to hurt? ii. Burying the dead is like sowing them; it is like committing the seed to the earth, that it may spring out of it again. Hence it will not follow that all men without exception shall rise too; but it will fitly follow that all who thus rise, rise in virtue of Christ's resurrection, and so that their revival is owing to the man Christ Jesus, as the mortality of all mankind was owing to the first man; and so, as by man came death, by man came deliverance. It would be a much wiser thing to take the comforts of this life: Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die (v. 32); let us turn epicures. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. Every one knows that it was dangerous being a Christian, and much more a preacher and an apostle, at that time. 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. See also Mich 4 7. To confirm what he had said of this change. What you sow: Paul says our bodies are like seeds which grow into resurrection bodies. The foundation for this triumph is here intimated, (1.) I. And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? 2. Observe how this truth is confirmed. What that precisely will be we are nowhere told, but in the general only here that there will be order observed. Jesus met with these 500 followers in the region of Galilee. The former objection is that of those who opposed the doctrine, the latter the enquiry of curious doubters. And his next is as plain to us. The Apostle Paul spent eighteen months there on his Second Missionary Journey and established a church there. The way to sanctify all our joy is to make it tributary to the praise of God. It is sown. c. There are different bodies or structures in the universe (sun moon stars), and each is created with its own glory, and each is suited to its own particular environment and needs. iv. It may hiss therefore, but it cannot hurt. A humble spirit is commonly a gracious one. IV. We should work hard in everything now, working for the Lord, because, Knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. It must be changed into ever-during substance, before it can be capable of possessing the heavenly inheritance. 1 Corinthians 14:1-19 - The Gifts of Tongues and Prophecy. But the best improvement to be made of the truth is to cease from sin, and set ourselves to the business of religion, and that in good earnest. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. : In a single moment, Jesus will gather His people (both dead and on the earth) to Himself, for resurrection. It is as easy an explication of the phrase as any I have met with, and as pertinent to the argument, to suppose the hoi nekroi to mean some among the Corinthians, who had been taken off by the hand of God. Phil 2 9-11. If there is no resurrection, then there is no future judgment to consider. Evil company corrupts good habits: This is not a quotation from the Old Testament, or even from the words of Jesus. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Note, How uncontrollably evident was Christ's resurrection from the dead, when so many eyes saw him at so many different times alive, and when he indulged the weakness of one disciple so far as to let him handle him, to put his resurrection out of doubt! The sting of death lay in this, that we had sinned and were summoned to appear before the God whom we had offended. What of the dead in Christ before that day? . ; but God gives it such a body as he will, and in such way as he will, only so as to distinguish the kinds from each other. It wasnt because the Corinthian Christians did not believe Jesus rose from the dead. Had he remained under the power of death, how could he have delivered us from its power? : This truth is essential to the gospel. I. : Paul would argue hard for his apostolic credentials, because he knew he had to be respected as an apostle. And in vain is it to profess Christianity, or our faith in Christ, if we deny the resurrection; for this must imply and involve the denial of his resurrection; and, take away this, you make nothing of Christianity, you leave nothing for faith or hope to fix upon. Join PLUS Login PLUS Bible Bible Versions Verse of the Day Verses by Topic Reading Plans Parallel Bible . 2. And so, as in Adam all die, in Christ shall all be made alive; as through the sin of the first Adam all men became mortal, because all derived from him the same sinful nature, so through the merit and resurrection of Christ shall all who are made to partake of the Spirit, and the spiritual nature, revive, and become immortal. (3.) The plain fact is that Paul did not know when these events would take place, and nowhere does he claim to know. Then life is lived only under the sun, as is considered in Ecclesiastes. 15:1-58 is taken up in confirming and explaining the great doctrine . II. i. 1 Corinthians 9:1-2. By Old-Testament predictions. Where are they? . 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. What should we preach for? 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. But I am apt to think that the expression has a much stronger meaning; that there were atheistical people among them who hardly owned a God, or one who had any concern with or took cognizance of human affairs. What about the widows son in the days of Elijah (1 Kings 17:17-24) and Lazarus (John 11:38-44), among others? Thus did the apostles and primitive Christians; but how wretched was their case, and how foolish their conduct, if they deceived themselves, and abused the world with vain and false hopes! How I Found The Messiah. i. Paul brilliantly links together the ideas of sin, death, and our identification with Jesus death and resurrection in Romans 6:1-14. d. Through our Lord Jesus Christ: This defeat of death is only possible for those who live through our Lord Jesus Christ. When Jesus came upon the tomb of Lazarus, He, . If there is no principle of resurrection, and if Jesus did not rise from the dead, then the apostles are. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Corruption cant inherit incorruption. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. b. Note, It is a shame in Christians not to have the knowledge of God. 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. O Hades, where is your victory?. And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? How are the dead raised up? The cross was a time of victorious death, a, is part of the gospel. b. But it is plain from this passage that it will not be without changing from corruption to incorruption. This argument the apostle brings home to himself: "I protest," says he, "by your rejoicing in Jesus Christ, by all the comforts of Christianity, and all the peculiar succours and supports of our holy faith, that I die daily," v. 31. Note, True Christians have undoubted evidence that their labour will not be in vain in the Lord; not their most diligent services, nor their most painful sufferings; they will not be in vain, not be vain and unprofitable. He was seen by many eyewitnesses ( 5-7 ) 4. he attributes all to the grace of God, and nothing to himself; it was the grace of God that made him an apostle of Christ, and preacher of the Gospel; it was that which being bestowed on him qualified him for it; it was that which enabled him to labour and toil, to do and suffer all he did, and which gave success to all his ministrations. The motive resulting from the former discourse is that their labour shall not be in vain in the Lord; nay, they know it shall not. And the hoi baptizomenoi (the baptized) seem plainly to mean some particular persons, not Christians in general, which yet must be the signification if the hoi nekroi ( the dead) be understood of our Saviour. Can we too much abound in zeal and diligence in the Lord's work, when we are assured of such abundant recompences in a future life? What mischief hast thou done us? NKJ 1 Corinthians 9:15 But I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me; for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void. The resurrection of Jesus, iv. Simply put, God the Father will always be God the. The other part of the objection is about the quality of their bodies, who shall rise: "With what body will they come? 2. Results to be deduced from Christ's resurrection (vers. How can that which is corruptible and mortal enjoy what is incorruptible, permanent, and immortal? 8. It is the glory of a minister to deny himself, that he may serve Christ and save souls. There is nothing more uncomely, unlovely, and loathsome than a dead body; but it will not be so when it shall be raised again, then it shall be a beautiful, comely body. 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. (14-19) What if there is no resurrection? What kept Paul low in an especial manner was the remembrance of his former wickedness, his raging and destructive zeal against Christ and him members. Note, Bad company and conversation are likely to make bad men. III. Note, It were a gross absurdity in a Christian to admit the supposition of no resurrection or future state. Not to observe that hoi nekroi seems to be too general an expression to mean only the martyred dead. But, having confuted their principle, he now warns the Corinthians how dangerous such men's conversation must prove. Paul was specifically commissioned as an apostle when Jesus appeared to him on the Damascus Road ( Acts 26:12-18 ). iii. He illustrates this by a comparison of the first and second Adam: There is an animal body, says he, and there is a spiritual body; and then goes into the comparison in several instances. For the unbeliever, this life alone gives them any chance at pleasure, and whatever happiness they can find now is all the happiness they will ever know. All will be resurrected in the sense that they will receive a resurrection body and live forever. 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?" means good news. As the word was used in ancient times, it didnt have to describe the message of salvation in Jesus Christ; it could describe any good news. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. Truth is in its own nature invariable; and the infallible teachers of divine truth could never be at variance with themselves or one another. The apostle drops several hints in the course of it which it will be proper to notice: as, (1.) He exhorts them to abound in the work of the Lord, and that always, in the Lord's service, in obeying the Lord's commands. 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. Note, It is a great confirmation of our faith of the gospel to see how it corresponds with ancient types and prophecies. Thou art vanquished and disarmed, and we are out of the reach of thy deadly dart. those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. As horrible as the physical suffering of Jesus was, this spiritual suffering the act of being judged for sin in our place was what Jesus really dreaded about the cross. The changed character of the apostles, and their willingness to die for the testimony of the resurrection, eliminate, For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. And must not faith in Christ be vain, and of no signification, if he be still among the dead? : Does this mean everyone is resurrected? IV. From our Saviour's resurrection he establishes the resurrection of the dead and confirms the Corinthians in the belief of it by some other considerations, ver 20-34. The glorified humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all the dignity and power conferred on it, was no more than a glorious creature. This would be a wiser course, if there were no resurrection, no after-life or state, than to abandon all the pleasures of life, and offer and expose ourselves to all the miseries of life, and live in continual peril of perishing by savage rage and cruelty. c. You do not sow that body that shall be God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body: When you plant a wheat seed, a big wheat seed does not come up. "Now," says he, "what advantage have I from such contests, if the dead rise not? No. Death is defeated by resurrection. We dont need to waver, we dont need to change direction, we dont need to fall, and we dont need to quit. This is not some side doctrine, to be believed if one likes it. And, though his mediation supposes his divine nature, yet as Mediator he does not so explicitly sustain the character of God, but a middle person between God and man, partaking of both natures, human and divine, as he was to reconcile both parties, God and man, and receiving commission and authority from God the Father to act in this office. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. It was what he constantly preached. Adam (, ) is one head of the human race, and all mankind was brought under death by Adam. It is certain the grain undergoes a great change, and it is intimated in this passage that so will the dead, when they rise again, and live again, in their bodies, after death. The relationship of, the Son Himself will also be subject to Him, i. They say, Here is a Christians body, lying in a grave with no casket. What end could we propose to ourselves in undertaking this hard and hazardous service, if we knew our religion stood on no better foundation, nay, if we were not well assured of the contrary? i. v. 35. The crucifixion of our Redeemer and his conquest over death are the very source of our spiritual life and hopes. The Corinthian Christians did not deny Jesus resurrection; they denied. The doctrine which Paul had heretofore taught, he still taught. 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? The offering of the first-fruits was what made the lump holy; and the lump was made holy by this offering, though it was not made before the harvest was gathered in, so it were set apart for that end, and duly offered afterwards. And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam, , gave us one kind of body. b. O Death, where is your sting? They are now corruptible, flesh and blood; they will be then incorruptible, glorious, and spiritual bodies, fitted to the celestial world and state, where they are ever afterwards to dwell, and have their eternal inheritance. 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 way Paul lived his life all-out for the gospel was evidence of the truth of the resurrection. 3. It was that doctrine which he had received, and delivered to them, en protoisamong the first, the principal. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 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. Remember though, that it was Jesus, not the Old Testament, which. Yet some circumstances in his case made him think more meanly of himself than of any of them. There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. 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. 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. Click on the different category headings to find out more. if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 1 Corinthians 15:9-10 Meaning and Commentary INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 15. But whether this be the meaning, or whatever else be, doubtless the apostle's argument was good and intelligible to the Corinthians. Even Paul himself was last of all favoured with the sight of him. There is no real, resurrected Jesus whom they serve. body, suited for life in heaven, not only life on this earth. Sin is the ultimate cause of death (Romans 6:23, Genesis 2:17), and the, : This defeat of death is only possible for those who live. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changedin a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. of cause or ground of destruction (1 Corinthians 8:11, Romans 14:15, etc. 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. In Matthew 10:10 (for a worker is worthy of his food), and in Luke 10:8 (Whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you). : Whether Paul or one of the other apostles brought the message, the result was the same. See Bishop Patrick on Num 24 2. And though he who has it is God, yet, inasmuch as he is somewhat else besides God, and in this whole dispensation acts not as God, but as Mediator, not as the offended Majesty, but as one interposing in favour of his offending creatures, and this by virtue of his consent and commission who acts and appears always in that character, he may properly be said to have this power given him; he may reign as God, with power unlimited, and yet may reign as Mediator, with a power delegated, and limited to these particular purposes. I. Note, Though the human nature must be employed in the work of our redemption, yet God was all in all in it. Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete), Ps 16 10; Isa 53 4-6; Dan 9 26, 27; Hos 6 2. As he has assuredly risen, so in his resurrection there is as much an earnest given that the dead in him shall rise as there was that the Jewish harvest in general should be accepted and blessed by the offering and acceptance of the first-fruits. This will appear when the kingdom shall be delivered up; and it will appear to the divine glory, that God may be all in all, that the accomplishment of our salvation may appear altogether divine, and God alone may have the honour of it. 3. 1. Shall not their souls magnify the Lord? But no such thing shall inherit the heavenly regions; for this were for corruption to inherit incorruption, which is little better than a contradiction in terms. Our resurrection body will be a heavenly (celestial) body, suited for life in heaven, not only life on this earth. 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. They are most certain, and of the last importance." It was the Lord's doing and should be marvellous in our eyes. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. 2018 David Guzik No distribution beyond personal use without permission. The Christian religion gives the best information that can be had about God, his nature, and grace, and government. First, every day carefully consider the certainty of death. How bad was crucifixion? 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. But resurrection means, that your labor is not in vain in the Lord, steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. It is evidently founded on the death of Christ. 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. All the more, this is why they had to hold on! Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures ( 3 ) 2. I speak this to your shame. 1 Corinthians 10:15-33 Do not provoke the Lord to Jealousy Part 3. For believers, the promise is sure: we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. 1. does not mean moral or ethical corruption, but physical, material corruption. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. II. a. Then only do we enjoy our blessings and honours in a holy manner when God has his revenue of glory out of it, and we are free to pay it to him. Through much of this book, Paul deals with the moral problems of the Corinthians: envy, divisions, pride, immorality, greed, irreverence, and selfishness. The. ) Brasileiro Women Live Commentary for Corinthians v Palmeiras on April 17, 2023, includes full match statistics and key events, . The whole lump was made holy by the consecration of the first-fruits (Rom 11 16), and the whole body of Christ, all that are by faith united to him, are by his resurrection assured of their own. But how we receive grace will help to determine how effective the gift of grace is.
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