This Sunday and next it will be my joy to preach the gospel in our morning worship services.
In preparation I am working through 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
Today I am meditaing on the first eleven verses.
I am pulling apart, analyzing, and putting back together in an effort to really get it.
Here is one bit from Garland’s excellent commentary –
“The resurrection is the keystone that integrates the incarnation and Christ’s atoning death. If it is removed, the whole gospel will collapse. If there is no resurrection from the dead, humans remain under the tyranny of sin and death, and their bouts of doubt and despair are fully justified.”
Praise God for the resurrection, for it shatters doubt and despair!!