Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

And we'll go ahead and get started.

And when we get started, in just a moment, we're going to be picking up in St. Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 15, beginning with verse 20, is where we're picking up from last time so

just quickly to kind of get us caught up to where we were as we talked about last

time here at chapter 15 St. Paul is sort of starting a new section of his first epistle to the Corinthians,

and this section in particular is focused on the resurrection, the resurrection of Christ,

and the general resurrection at Christ's glorious appearing, as we'll see, as we get further into the chapter this time.

So, although it serves as the culmination, really, of St. Paul's first epistle to the

Corinthians, I'm not going to now go through the whole epistle, but we went through the first

19 verses last time of chapter 15.

And in those early verses, St. Paul set out the fact that he is here talking about the gospel

of Jesus Christ, specifically the gospel of Jesus Christ, as he preached and proclaimed it while he was in the city of

Corinth. He is reminding them of what it was that he taught them while he was there. And so he briefly

outlined that in sort of an almost creedal fashion, as we saw and discussed last time. And he went on then to give a list of

witnesses, both himself and the other apostles and also 500 people at once who had seen Christ

after his resurrection. And they were all witnesses specifically to the resurrection part of the

gospel.

We talked last time about how the word Evangelion that we translate as gospel is a word

for the proclamation of a victory, often a military victory, sometimes a political victory.

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