If the dead are not raised, let's eat and drink for tomorrow we die.

What is the point of serving the Lord? What is the point of sacrifice?

If there's no resurrection, there's no motive for service,

for sacrificial enduring, suffering service.

Welcome to a new week of Grace to you with John MacArthur. Today John is going to show you

what the resurrection of Christ means for the Christian and for the unbeliever.

It's a message taken from a compelling study that John calls,

the end is not the end. You know when a loved one is facing death and one day when you face death,

there really is only one thing that matters and that is having hope for what comes after death.

John's lesson today can help you lay claim to that hope and to face eternity with ultimate confidence.

If you have your Bible, turn to the book of 1 Corinthians and here's the lesson.

We are returning to the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians and I want to read you verses 29 to 34

as the setting for the Word of God. Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead?

If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them? Why are we also

in danger every hour? I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord,

I die daily. If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me?

If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. Do not be deceived.

Bad company corrupts good morals. Become sober-minded as you ought and stop sinning for some have no knowledge of God.

I speak this to your shame. That is a fascinating, fascinating little section. A number of questions

and a very serious warning and indictment. Just exactly what is going on here.

We find that He sees this as an incentive on three levels, an incentive, a compelling incentive

on three levels, a very fascinating portion of Scripture. Let me help you to see what those levels

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