April 14, 2025

1 Corinthians 15:1-11  (HCSB)
Resurrection Essential to the Gospel
15 Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it. 2 You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose. 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 500 brothers 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 abnormally born,
He also appeared to me.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.

Adrian Bullard
Happy Monday! Something we often need to be reminded of is God’s plan never lacks God’s supplies. As a believer of Christ and human, we are often conflicted with what we want to achieve and what God wants of us. In this passage we see Paul reminding everyone that God’s plan happened exactly how He said it would and in His time. Paul heeds warning against believing in part and not believing in the whole of God’s plan and perfect purpose. It is by God’s grace alone that we can be saved. At times we may not feel worthy of being saved, BUT GOD is gracious and saves and forgives us because He loves us.