There is hope

Monday, April 18

There is hope    

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:3

Each year the church holds a remembrance of the day Jesus of Nazareth was raised bodily from the dead. But what does this mean for the world today? What does it mean for us? It means there is hope! All will die, but not all will experience the second death. This is because of Jesus and his atoning death for all who have trusted their lives to him.

But how are we to believe these accounts? Paul stated openly and boldly in 1 Corinthians 15 that many who saw Jesus were still alive. They are eyewitnesses.

1 Corinthians 15:1-5 says ‘Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.’

For, to those who have given their lives to Jesus in faith and repentance, who have ceased from trusting in themselves for salvation, they will be saved. And, one day, be made like Jesus in his resurrection. How this will happen is a mystery (15:50), but it is the sure hope of all those who trust in Jesus as their only hope.

I hope all who read this short piece know this hope.