The Gospel Received

1 Corinthians 15:1-8

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

1 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel I preached to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time, he also appeared to me.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11 Whether, then, it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

1 Corinthians 15:20-27

20 But as it is, Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. 22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

23 But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at his coming, those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when he abolishes all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he puts all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be abolished is death. 27 For God has put everything under his feet. Now when it says “everything” is put under him, it is obvious that he who puts everything under him is the exception.

1 Corinthians 15:1-2

1 Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel (euangelion) I preached (euengelisamen) to you, which you received, on which you have taken your stand 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached (euengelisamen) to you—unless you believed in vain. 

1 Corinthians 15:3-5

3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 

that Christ died,

that Christ was buried, 

that Christ was raised,

that Christ appeared,

that Christ ascended,

that Christ will come again,

that Christ will abolish all rule and all authority and power (and the last enemy is death).

1 John 5:11-12

11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has life. The one who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

John 17:3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent —Jesus Christ.

The Gospel is the story of the transforming work of Jesus the Christ.

Jesus is THE example of living this new life.