1 Corinthians 15:29-57 | Episode #1002

August 12, 2025

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

1 Corinthians 15:29-57

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Chad Harrison and you're listening to Hope.

Applying God's word to your daily life.

As we finish Faithful Finance, we want to produce our winter Bible study done at Lake Community Church on First Corinthians.

It'll be a fairly long Bible study.

We will break it up into different parts and so you will get a really good, really fast study through the book of First Corinthians before we move on to the book of Joshua.

Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead if the dead do not rise at all? Now, this is something weird that was going on, okay?

They'd gotten all worried about the folks who died.

We got all kinds of stuff that we've come up with over the years, okay?

Just because we come up with it, don't make it right. Okay? And it's some of weird stuff, okay? Just being honest with you.

And you go, well, you talking about that Catholic stuff, Pastor? Yes, the Catholic church was involved, was over all Christendom for about 13, 1400 years.

Okay? So if we've been here 2100 years or a little less than 2100 years, then two thirds of it was controlled by them.

So probably 2/3 of our mess ups go back to them.

Quit worrying about them,

okay? Quit worrying about how they messed it up in the past because we sure enough messing it up right now. We've had First Corinthians for 2,000 years,

okay? Don't get all caught up in.

In.

In.

And. And trust me, I've lived with it myself.

Don't get all caught up whether or not ca remember. What did he say? You cannot say that Jesus is Lord except by the Spirit of God.

You can't say that Jesus is cursed except that you say it without the spirit of God.

So don't get all caught up in that. If they confess Jesus Christ is Lord,

then you know that the Holy Spirit has led them to that.

Are they right about everything?

No.

Well, praise God, we don't. They still got purgatory and everything. Okay? But like I told you,

the neat thing about purgatory, if it ain't real, it won't really bother you,

okay? You'll just die and go to heaven. You. Oh, I didn't have to go to purgatory. And y' all go, well,

no, because it wasn't real. Who did it hurt?

Okay? It didn't hurt anybody.

Well, they were worried about people who had died before they'd been baptized. So what were they doing? They were taking other people and they were, you know, putting them in and baptizing them for the.

For somebody else.

You go, well, that sounds stupid. Yeah, but we do stupid stuff, too, okay?

So don't get all caught up in it. But he's making an argument to him using their stupid stuff.

He says, if y' all are acting like the resurrection isn't real, why are y' all baptizing people for dead people?

What's the use?

Why do it?

But if there's no resurrection of the dead, then otherwise, where am I at? I'm just even lost.

He says, and why do you. We stand in jeopardy every hour.

I affirm by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

What he's saying is, is this is a daily thing. This is not just an event thing.

If in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,

what advantage is it to me if the dead do not rise?

Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. What he's saying is just live for the day and just, you know, tomorrow you're going to hell, and,

you know, that's just the end of it.

What he's saying is, quit acting. Quit.

Quit playing games between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world.

If you're going to play the kingdom of the world, then you just need to have as much fun as you can.

Look, if somebody doesn't believe in God and they say, I'm just going to eat,

feed your flesh and just have at it,

because you are going to die and go to hell. So enjoy what you got right now.

But I'd say that there's a better way and that you don't have to die and go to hell.

Because the gospel is, Jesus died according to the scriptures. We was buried and rose again on third day according to scripture, so that you might be redeemed.

But if you don't live that way, just live that way. Fully be consistent.

Do you believe that Jesus is resurrected?

Does your life reflect that belief?

Hello?

If you believe Jesus is resurrected, your life ought to reflect it.

And that's what he's saying.

Do not be deceived. Evil company corrupts good cat habits.

I like the original King James.

Bad company corrupts good character.

I tend to use that in juvenile court all the time.

Awake to righteousness and do not sin.

For some do not have the knowledge of God.

I speak this to your shame. What he's saying is, y' all are acting like lost folks.

Quit acting like lost folks.

Act like you're resurrected,

please.

But someone will Say, how are the dead raised up and with what body do they come? Foolish one,

what you sow is not made alive unless it dies.

And what you sow does not, you do not sow. That body that shall be but mere grain, perhaps wheat or some other grain. What he's saying is, you sow a piece of grain and what comes up?

A whole plant.

But God gives it a body as he pleases. To each seed its own body.

All flesh is not the same flesh.

But there's one kind of flesh of men,

another flesh of animals, another fish, and another of birds.

There are also celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies. Celestial meaning in the universe, terrestrial meaning on the earth. But the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars. For one star differs from another star in glory.

By the way, how did he know that?

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption,

meaning your body of sin and death is sown in corruption.

It is sown in dishonor,

and then it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness and is raised in power.

Now he's moved from justification.

He's talked about sanctification.

Now he's going to talk about what?

Glorification.

And by the way, this is one of the main passages we use at most funerals.

Why?

Because it's talking about the final process that God works in humanity. He. He takes your dead, sinful flesh and he raises it in glory.

Who knew this book was a theological book?

And so it is written. The first man, Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life giving spirit.

Jesus is the second Adam. This is the second book in the Bible which, which defines Jesus as the second AD which means he was the second human being born perfect before God.

Adam was made perfect before God. Jesus was made by the Holy Spirit or conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb. Perfect before God, a perfect human being.

All right, now you got to get that. He is a human being.

He is a man perfect before God.

The first Adam was formed out of the dust of the ground.

Ruha breathed in him the spirit of life and he became a living soul.

Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb.

He was 100% God and 100% man.

However,

the spiritual is not first but the natural and afterwards the spiritual.

Now he's talking about us.

What came first,

our natural flesh and then what happens later? The spirit of God begins to do his work in our lives.

The first man was of the earth made of dust,

and the second man is the Lord from heaven.

So the first one was a physical man. The second one is a physical man, but he is made from the spiritual and comes from heaven.

Y' all following me?

He says, as was the man of dust, so also are we made of dust.

And as is the heavenly man, so also are we heavenly. Now, we're fixing to read something that's going to be very familiar to you, but you need to read it in its context.

He says the verse 47. The first man was of the earth made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven,

as was the man of dust. So also are those who are made of dust.

And as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are heavenly.

And as we have borne the image of man of dust,

we shall also bear the image of the heavenly man.

Let it sink in.

Now, this I say, brethren,

that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

Y' all have heard this.

Nor does corruption, inheritance, incorruption.

Meaning this whole plan is for you to inherit the incorruptible,

for you to inherit the kingdom of God.

Behold, I tell you a mystery.

We shall not all sleep,

but we shall be changed in a moment,

in the twinkling of an eye,

at the last trumpet.

By the way, it's going to be a clear trumpet,

but we shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of eye, the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible,

and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption,

and the mortal must put on immortality.

So when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall we be brought by patience to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is your sting?

Oh, Hades,

where is your victory?

The sting of death is sin,

and the strength of sin is the law.

Now, let me just stop real quick.

The sting of death is sin,

but the strength of that death is the law.

In Hebrews, if you'll remember, he made the argument that until the law came,

death had the sting of death.

But it did not have strength like it did with the law, because the law defined what it was, God and not God.

So the full force of death is brought about by the knowledge of God in the law.

You wouldn't know that you were lost without the law.

You would not know that you were corrupted,

except that you know God's truth,

he says. But thanks be to God who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.