1 Corinthians chapter 15 is where we are in our Bible study.

Some scholars call this the most important chapter of the Bible.

Now why would they say that?

And how could you say that about any chapter of the Bible?

I get why people would sort of bulk at that,

but really all of Christianity swings on one single truth.

Anybody want to know what that is?

The resurrection of Jesus Christ.

And here Paul gives perhaps the best and most thorough, among other chapters of the Bible,

but this might be the cream of the crop when it comes to the defense for the resurrection,

the importance of the resurrection of Jesus, and how it's going to really provide resurrection

for you and for me. And what a glorious truth that is. So obviously, every chapter of the Bible is

important. But because of the resurrection of Jesus, we have salvation. So this is why it's so

important. And so Paul in chapter 15 here is going to raise the question, if Christ be not raised.

Like if Jesus didn't really raise up from the dead, then what? And it's not a good picture,

if you think of it that way. One of the things that might help us understand

why he's talking to the Corinthian Church the way he is, is because they had what is called the

Epicurean worldview, the Epicurean mindset. That is, you know, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow

we die, live for today, you only live once, sort of the biblical era version of Yolo, materialistic.

Um, uh, a lot of the, uh, you know, Corinthians, they rejected the afterlife that you only live once.

So you might as well live hard, uh, and, and stuff like that. So it, it sort of seemed, you know,

on the surface, you might say it seemed sort of party animal,

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