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Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Devotional: December 9th

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1 Corinthians 15:1-19

A serious question remained to be settled: several people at Corinth denied the resurrection. Paul proves that it is impossible to tamper with this doctrine without overturning the whole structure of the Christian faith. If there is no resurrection, Christ Himself has not been raised from the dead; His work has not received God’s approval; death remains unconquered and we are still in our sins. As a result, the Gospel no longer has any meaning and our faith is vain. The Christian’s life of self-denial and separation becomes an absurdity and, of all men, he is to be pitied the most since he loses both this present life and eternity.

God be praised, nothing could be farther from the truth: "the Lord is risen indeed" (Luke 24:34). But confronted with the importance of this truth we understand why God has taken such care to establish it. Firstly He establishes it through the Scriptures (vv. 3, 4); then through witnesses that cannot be denied because of their quality: Cephas, James, Paul himself (although he declared himself unworthy), or because of their quantity: about five hundred brethren who could still be questioned. And without any doubt, many of our readers, without yet having seen the Lord with their eyes have experienced for themselves that their Saviour is alive (cf. Job 19:25).

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