1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-11
seen Christ face to face could change a man so radically. Nothing less than having actually seen Christ face to face could
make a man give up so much and pay so great a price for preaching the gospel (2 Cor.6:4f; 11:22f; Ph.3:4f).
3. Paul was desperately driven to labor for Christ. To Paul the greatest thing in all the world was the grace of God, the
fact that God loved him so much...
• that God forgave his terrible sins.
• that God allowed him to follow and serve His dear Son.
• that God allowed him to proclaim the glorious cure for the cancer of sin and death, even the death and
resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
All that Paul was and all that Paul did was by the grace, the undeserved favor of God. As he himself declared: “By the
grace of God I am what I am.”
Because God had done so much for him, Paul labored ever so diligently for God. The word “labored” (kopiao) means to
labor to the point of being weary and exhausted. Note his statement: he labored more than all the others that served Christ.
Why? Because he owed it to Christ: he had sinned so terribly against the Lord. Note that he even gives the credit for his labor
to the grace of God.
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(15:11) Jesus Christ, Resurrection: the fifth fact of the gospel is desperately needed by the world: there is only one
gospel that is preached and that has to be believed. The facts of the gospel are the same facts...
• preached by all true preachers.
• believed by all true believers.
There is no gospel other than the gospel of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. His death and resurrection
is the only gospel that truly offers eternal life to men. The fact of the Lord’s resurrection is the only truth that gives men vic-
tory over death. The fact of the Lord’s death and resurrection assures man that God loves him and will raise him up to live
eternally with Him.
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