Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we wrapped up 1st Corinthians, which is Paul's second letter to the

Corinthians at least because there's also the book we're calling zero

Corinthians. If you're doing our new Testament plan you just finished your 9th book and if you're doing the whole Bible you just finished your ninth book and if you're doing the whole

Bible you just finished your 48th book. Congratulations. Paul spends most of

chapter 15 driving home the importance of the resurrection which was a point of

debate in the church at Corinth. Some even seem to be on the

same train of thought as the Sadyseses, who don't believe in the resurrection of

anyone. So Paul lists a bunch of evidence proving that Jesus rose from the dead,

including the 500 witnesses, many of whom are still alive at this time.

In other words, Paula saying, you can go ask them.

He calls Christ's resurrection the most important thing about our faith.

If Jesus didn't have victory over death, we would be

hopeless. But because he did, that hope permeates every area of our lives. But Paul knows it's easy to

forget this with everything that happens in life, so he reminds

them that time is the test of what we truly believe. If God has given us new hearts, then he's

given us his spirit. And his spirit reminds us of the truth, and his spirit seals us for the day of redemption.

So if we truly belong to God, we will persevere in the faith.

He will finish what he started in us.

But those who only affirmed the truth without it taking root, like the

rocky soil and the thorny soil we read about in Mark 4, those are the ones who believed in

vain.

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