1 Corinthians Series              The Risk of Faith Introduction:When I was in school my brother, father and I got to go to England. My dad really wanted us to go on a guys trip together. Naturally my brother and I fought the entire time. but well we were there we did get to meet some of my extended family, see london and spend time together. And for me it was exciting because I love history, we got to visit the British museum and a bunch of cathedrals. I begged my dad to take us to Stonehenge, which is a little ways outside of london. Stonehenge is this massive ring of standing stones that was likely used to measure out time and seasons. But that’s not the interesting part. What’s interesting is where they came from. There are no stones like Stonehenge anywhere around it. Most archeologists think that stonehenge’s rocks came from a quarry about 50 kilometres away. Each stone weighs approximately 25 tons or 50,000 pounds. I always wondered; How would you even start to lift or move a stone like that? It weighs so much. It’s bulky and awkward. No matter how much man power you have, theres no way your going to move it like a couch. Well the answer is simply, something you learned about in grade school. A simple lever. With a straight and sturdy piece of wood people can lift objects that hundreds of pounds more then was is normally capable. It was a tool simple enough that even the ancients of britain could make it. To make a lever you just need two things. A straight ridged piece of wood to use as the actual level. And something to use as a fulcrum, something that the level will pivot on. The thing is, you need a strong fulcrum. All of the weight rest on that. If the fulcrum is weak, it will break and if the fulcrum breaks, then you will be left with no advantage whatsoever As we finish of the book of 1 Corinthians today we will be looking at Chapter 15. The final major issue of the Corinthian church. In Paul’s Final address he challenges the church to remember the heart of a Christian Life. What really matters to live a life that honours Jesus Section 1:The importance of ResurrectionWithin the church of Corinth, amongst the  false teaching and division, there were those who had come to believe that the idea of resurrection, the idea that people will come back to life when Jesus returns, was nonsense.It was common for Most other cultures at the time to believe in an afterlife. That when died your spirit went to wherever the God’s were. Like we talked about at the beginning of the summer, they saw immaterial, spiritual things as good and physical things as negative. Yet Christian’s believed something different. That everyone who believed in Jesus would not only survive death, but be raised again. They believed in a god who saw the physical and the spiritual as both being important. A god wanted us not as etherial spirits but as reborn in a new body. There were some in Corinth still holding to the idea that the body didn’t matter and that the idea of resurrection wasn’t a big deal. That they would just go to be with God in Spirit when they died. Paul is quick to refute this claim. He does everything he can to show the importance of resurrection to the Christian faith. “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.”Paul says the issue of resurrection, specifically Jesus’ resurrection, is of “First importance”.  He’s saying that the issue of resurr