RTW 2023

Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still stand firm in it. It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that was never true in the first place.I passed on to you what was most important and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said. He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve. After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him. For I am the least of all the apostles. In fact, I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church.But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace. So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed.

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

1 Corinthians 15:25-26

• The misconception and false teaching about Christianity is that it took hundreds of years for the church to settle on what the belief system was.
• Many would point to the Council of Nicaea and the Nicene Creed as when everything was decided.
• These ideas are wrong.
• Paul provides a list of eyewitnesses to the resurrected Jesus.
• These people knew that Jesus was God.
• Paul records an early creed that predates the writing of this letter.
• Paul probably received this creed from Peter and James.
• Galatians 1:18-20
• Most scholars believe Paul received the creed between 32-38 AD.
• Within a couple of years after the Resurrection, the doctrine of the church was formed.
• Christianity is the record of the lives changed over the past two thousand years be these facts.
• Jesus is the Christ.
• He died for our sins.
• He was raised on the third day.
• This changes everything…it changed you.
• How close to the cross can we date the creedal statement in 1 Corinthians 15?
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Be living proof that the message Paul received and preached is real!