PrayerBits for Wednesday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Wednesday

1 Corinthians 15:12-22 Resurrection

Scripture lesson: Paul addresses the common issue of whether or not there is a resurrection. Bottom line in his sequence is that there is no point to life or being a Christian without a belief in a resurrection. There is no hope in the world otherwise. The resurrection does not have to be logical and provable to be true.

Time to reflect: Set aside doubts and questions for a moment and see what it means to you to know that friends and family who have died have been resurrected... and that you and others still alive have that in the future.

Scripture:

1 Corinthians 15:12-22

The Resurrection of the Dead

12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? 13If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; 14and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain. 15We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ—whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised. 17If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 18Then those also who have died* in Christ have perished. 19If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.* 21For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead has also come through a human being; 22for as all die in Adam, so all will be made alive in Christ.