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The Most Important Message.
Every day I receive a lot of messages.
They may be phone messages.
People call and leave me a message to call.
It might be from one of my patients, or a probation officer, or a CYS caseworker.
They always are looking for information or giving me information.
I get lots of email messages throughout the day.
Many I just delete because they don’t apply to me or they are not important.
Some require a response.
I get a few text messages throughout the day.
If they are from Darlene, I know that I had better answer them as soon as possible.
Some messages are important.
Our scripture this morning is about the greatest message that was ever given to us.
This scripture passage is concerning the central tenant of what we believe and that is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
Without the resurrection there would be no church, no Christianity.
Do you realize that the very reason that we worship on a Sunday morning is because was raised from the dead on Sunday morning?
That is why it is called the Lord’s Day.
This entire chapter of 1st Corinthians Paul is writing about the resurrection.
In the first 11 verses Paul lays the ground work for our belief in the fact that Jesus was raised from the dead.
This is at the very core of what we believe because if Jesus hadn’t been raised from the dead our belief would be in vain.
If Jesus hadn’t been raised from the dead, he would be no more than just another religious person who was killed while claiming to be God.
Paul starts this passage why telling the Corinthians in verses 1 and 2:
It is important that we get reminded from time to time of the important things in life.
We follow the Christian calendar so that annually we are reminded of the important events in the life of Jesus.
Advent reminds us to prepare for the coming of Jesus.
Christmas reminds us that God came to us in the person of Jesus.
Jesus moved into the neighborhood.
Epiphany is that time that Jesus was shown to the world when the Magi came to worship him.
Lent reminds us that apart for God we are hopelessly lost.
Easter is the celebration that Jesus died and was raised from the dead because of our sin.
Pentecost reminds us that God knew that we couldn’t live the Christian life on our own we needed His power.
In the Ordinary Days we are challenged to live our Christian faith daily.
Paul says to the Corinthians “I want to call your attention to the good news.”
The Gospel, the good news that Jesus lived, died, was resurrected, ascended to the Father and will one-day return.
Paul wants to remind them of that good news!
It is important to be reminded where we came from to where we are today.
I think about my grandparents or great aunts who would tell me the stories of our family.
It was important for them to remind me of my ancestors.
It is important to pass those stories on to the next generation.
I feel bad for people who never heard the stories of their family.
Paul is telling the story and reminding the Corinthians of how they came to believe in Jesus, and it was through the message of the Gospel that was preached to them.
Paul, it appears, is concerned with whether the Corinthians indeed are truly believers in Jesus.
He writes in verse 2:
There are people, friends and relatives of mine who I am very much afraid for when it comes to their eternal destiny.
They talk about loving God, they say Christian things, they do good deeds yet they live as if Jesus hadn’t done anything in their lives.
Paul wrote about holding firmly to the word that he had preached to the Corinthians.
That is the challenge for each of us every day, to hold firm to the Gospel.
You see when we begin to pick and choose what we are going to believe about Jesus then our belief in Him is really in vain.
When we talk about the Gospel, about what Jesus death and resurrection, we are talking about facts.
When Paul was writing to the Corinthians he could think of men and women who were witnesses to the fact that Jesus had really died on the cross and that he was buried and that he had really risen from the dead.
He could point those people out and they could testify to what they had seen.
It wasn’t some abstract thought to him, but it was a belief founded in facts.
We are confronted with so many options today when it comes to belief in God.
If you don’t like what this church is preaching, you can go down the road and find one that pleases you.
It doesn’t take much to find someone who preaches what you want to hear.
The question however that we need to ask is are they preaching the Gospel.
The other question we need to ask is “Am I holding firmly to the gospel?”
When Peter and John were hauled before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish leaders, Peter said to them:
There is no other way to God except by Jesus.
Salvation comes only through Jesus.
If our faith is not founded in Jesus life, death and resurrection then we believe in vain.
We are just wasting our time because no matter how sincere we might be in our beliefs then we are missing it.
The truth is that about 2,000 years ago God came to us in a baby born to Mary who they named Jesus, Emanuel, God with us.
When he was about 33 years old he was arrested, put on trial, found guilty and sentenced to death.
He was crucified on a cross, buried and then on the third day he arose from the dead.
Those are the facts in a nutshell.
One writer said:
These facts are inevitably linked together: if you take anything away, you have no gospel.
A cross without a resurrection is no gospel.
These things: He died, He was buried, He rose again, constitute the basic elements of our Christian faith.
Twelve simple men, most of them fishermen, could never have turned the world upside down unless all these facts were true.[1]
Why did God do that?
Why did God come to us?
In Romans we read:
Every one of us has sinned, we all fall short of the glory of God.
There wasn’t anything that we could do about it so God came to us.
We all know that verse, you’ve heard time and time again.
But, have you ever read it in the context of what Paul wrote?
Listen to what Paul was saying:
Paul doesn’t just tell us that we have all sinned.
If we only look at that one verse, we might be tempted to think what’s the point!
We’re all sinners, there is nothing I can do about it.
I might as well just live my life the way I want to live.
Paul doesn’t leave that option open to us because he writes
Romans 3:24–25 (CEB)
24 but all are treated as righteous freely by his grace because of a ransom that was paid by Christ Jesus.
25 Through his faithfulness, God displayed Jesus as the place of sacrifice where mercy is found by means of his blood.
God came to us, Jesus was the sacrifice, the only sacrifice that could take care of that sin problem.
Through his shed blood we can be justified.
Justified is a fancy way of saying that we are restored into a right relationship with God, just as if I’d never sinned.
That justification comes through faith in Jesus who lived and died and rose again, for you, for me!
This is the greatest news that has ever been delivered.
Look there at verse 3 and see the urgency that Paul has.
1 Corinthians 15:3 (CEB)
3 I passed on to you as most important what I also received
The Message paraphrase really conveys the urgency:
1 Corinthians 15:3 (The Message)
3 The first thing I did was place before you what was placed so emphatically before me
What was the message of urgency?
Look at what Paul writes there in later part of verse 3 and on into verse 4
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