Steadfast Hope

Well, good morning, friends. Christ is risen. He's risen indeed. Would you open your pew Bible

with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 15. That's page 903 in the pew Bible.

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

We're going to be looking at 1 Corinthians chapter 15 this morning.

1 Corinthians 15 · chapter mention

As you turn there, page 903, let me pray for us as we come to God's Word together.

Father, you have caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus,

our Lord, from the dead. Let our minds and our hearts grasp not just the reality,

but the significance of his resurrection this morning, that we might be people of the resurrection,

full of hope, living hope, as your Word says. In Christ's name and by the power of the Spirit,

we pray. Amen. Amen. Well, 1 Corinthians 15 is a long chapter. We won't look at all of it this

morning, but I'm going to begin by reading 1 Corinthians 15 verses 1 through 19. But keep

1 Corinthians 15:1–19

your pew Bible open because we'll look at more of the verses as we go, but we'll start with verses

1 through 19. This is the Apostle Paul writing to the church in Corinth around 53 or 54 AD, and he

writes this,

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve, and he appeared to more than 500 brothers

at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James,

then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church

of God. 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, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Whether it was I or they, so we preach, and so you believed. Now, if Christ is proclaimed as raised from

the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no

resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised,

then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God

because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise, if it is true that the dead

are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not

been raised, your faith is futile, and you're still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep

in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope, in this life only, we are, of all people,

most to be pitied. Hope's a funny thing, isn't it? Most often when we think of hope, we think that

it's something that we do, right? I hope it doesn't rain today because we're going to have an epic Easter

egg hunt in our backyard, right? I hope that I pass my exams. I hope I meet someone and fall in love.

When we think about hope, we usually think that it's something we do, and it sort of feels like

something that's not too far off from wishful thinking, right? But notice that the Apostle Paul

talks about the Christian's hope not as something that we do, but as something that we have.

This is true across the New Testament. Hope isn't something we do. It's not wishful thinking

about the future. It's something that we have. It's a certain future. Hope in the New Testament is

something solid, reliable. It's sort of like an anchor fixed to a point that will not give way,

but will keep you secure and steadfast until you arrive at the destination.

Now, you don't need me to tell you that we live in an age of deep anxiety and fear and unrest.

I feel it just as much as you do. But what if, rather than living in fear and unrest,

we could live in hope, solid hope, steadfast hope, hope that takes our wildest dreams and actually

makes them look like child's play? That's what 1 Corinthians 15 is all about. It's all about the

resurrection of Jesus Christ and the certain hope that we have in him because of it.

In a nutshell, what Paul's going to say in the rest of this chapter is that because Jesus Christ has

been raised from the dead, there's hope. There's certain hope. There's hope for the world and there's

hope for you. But before we get to those two main points, we have to consider first what Paul says

if Christ hasn't been raised. That's the paragraph we just read. If Christ has not been raised,

then he says we're hopeless. No resurrection of Christ, no hope. Now, it would seem that some

Christians in Corinth had begun to believe that the physical body, the material world, especially our

material bodies, they had begun to believe that it doesn't really matter. You see this earlier in the

letter of 1 Corinthians. As Paul grapples with certain ethical questions with the Corinthians,

they seem to think that it's the spirit or the soul that's the only important thing. And if that's

true, then it doesn't really matter what we do with our bodies. You can eat what you want to eat. You

can sleep with whoever you want to sleep with. Who cares? It's just your physical body. That thing

doesn't matter. But Paul in this letter is saying, no, God made your physical body. God will redeem your

physical body. And in fact, you don't belong to yourself anymore. You belong to Christ.

Christ. But here in chapter 15, this downgrading of the importance of the body at Corinth has seeped

into their thinking even about the resurrection of the body. It seems they were thinking something

along the lines of the resurrection of a body. That's weird. Who needs the body?

But think a minute, Paul says, if there's no resurrection of the body,

then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ hasn't been raised, he says, then our preaching

is in vain and your faith is in vain. In other words, it's all empty. The Christian message,

the preaching is empty, and the Christian life, the faith is empty. To remove the resurrection from

Christianity is sort of like removing all the air from your car tires, right? You might sort of clump

along for a few blocks. You know, if you ever had a flat tire, you're like, you know right away, right?

It's like, and you're like, you can go for a few blocks, right? But eventually you just grind to a halt.

And then you've got to replace your rims, which is really expensive. Don't do that.

I've been there. Takes a lot of money. But why is that? Why is it like taking all the air

from the car tires if we get rid of the resurrection? Well, as far as the Christian

message, the preaching goes, Paul says, if there's no resurrection, then we're misrepresenting God.

You know, you can't read the New Testament for long until you realize that what all the apostles

and the earliest followers of Jesus were saying was not that Christ had been sort of spiritually

preserved through death. They were not saying that they had had some kind of strong impression of

Jesus living on in their hearts after death. No. What they said and what they meant was that Jesus

rose bodily from the grave and they met him. And it's hard to go on trusting a message when you don't

really believe the central thing about it. So the preaching is empty if there's no resurrection.

But the faith is empty too, Paul says. Why? Well, because, he says, then you're still in your sins.

If Christ died and stayed dead, Paul seems to be saying, then maybe his death would have been the death

of a martyr, but it would not have been the death of a redeemer.

You see, Jesus claimed during his earthly ministry that his death would be our ransom

from sin and death. But if his death was the end, then we have no reason to think that his crucifixion

achieved anything along those lines.

So then, if Christ has not been raised, we Christians are, as verse 19 says, of all people,

most to be pitied. We don't really have any hope.

So, Christian, on this Easter Sunday, remember the centrality of the resurrection.

All of life for the Christian really is nothing more than a witness in word, in deed, in affection.

All of our life, corporately and individually as Christians, is really nothing more than a witness

that Jesus Christ is risen.

But if you're here and you're not a Christian,

can I submit to you

that you're also in the same boat?

That is, if there's no resurrection,

admittedly, Christianity is pretty empty.

We should probably just go straight to the egg hunt, right?

But what about what you believe, friend?

Without the resurrection,

do you have hope?

Or the older you get,

do you also feel the air

leaking out of your tires, as it were?

You know, this seems to happen

kind of in a progression.

You get into the school you always wanted.

You land a dream job.

You get your first big success.

But then the glory of that starts to wane.

And it doesn't quite satisfy.

So you trade success for duty

and for doing something good in the world.

And you try that,

and then you see,

no matter how hard we try to live moral lives,

lives of duty,

of service,

of justice,

that at the same time,

there's also just an intractable brokenness in the world.

And at times,

there's no better word to describe it

than evil.

Not all the world,

but there's something in the world

that's broken.

And then you have that moment

when you realize that the brokenness,

the warped nature of things,

isn't just out there,

but it's in here too.

And what is there to do about it?

And the air keeps leaking out,

and your tires get lower and lower to the pavement.

And then maybe you get a phone call

that a loved one has died.

And then the air really starts leaking out.

And you realize one day,

someone else will get a call,

and it will be news of your death

that's getting passed along.

And then maybe,

no matter what it is that you believe,

you start to realize that

if the only hope we have

is hope in this life only,

it all starts to look pretty empty,

pretty vain.

But wait,

the apostle Paul says,

wait,

that doesn't have to be the end of the story.

Yes,

if Christ has not been raised,

if there's no resurrection,

it's pretty bleak for all of us.

But let's pick up in verse 20

of our text.

In verse 20,

Paul says,

but,

in fact,

Christ has been raised from the dead.

The first fruits of those

who have fallen asleep.

for as by a man came death,

by a man has come also

the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die,

so also in Christ

shall all be made alive,

but each in his own order.

Christ the first fruits,

then at his coming,

those who belong to Christ.

Then comes the end,

when he delivers the kingdom

to God the Father,

after destroying every rule

and every authority and power.

For he must reign

until he has put all enemies

under his feet.

The last enemy to be destroyed

is death.

For God has put all things

in subjection under his feet.

But when it says,

all things are put in subjection,

it is plain that he is accepted

who put all things

in subjection under him.

When all things are subjected to him,

then the Son himself

will also be subjected

to him who put all things

in subjection under him,

that God may be all in all.

Let me translate.

Paul's saying,

there's hope.

There's hope for the world

and there's hope for you.

First, consider how this paragraph

points us to hope for the world.

There's talk here, right,

of kingdoms,

of rule,

of authority,

of power,

of all things being subjected to God.

And all that language

kind of seems a bit foreign to us.

But what Paul is saying

is that because of the resurrection

of Jesus Christ,

one day,

the world,

in all of its brokenness,

will be put right.

All the misuse of power,

all the destructive twisting of authority,

all the hurt and suffering

and death that that causes,

one day,

it will all be put to an end.

And God's kingdom,

God's way of power and authority,

a way of goodness

and rightness

and compassion

and love,

one day,

that will be all in all.

No more injustice,

no more oppression.

God

will be all

in all.

The creator

will put creation

right again.

It's a bit like a broken bone,

you know.

You know,

if you're out of shape,

like me,

and you go to the gym,

and they put you

on a new diet,

and they give you

an exercise plan,

all of that's probably

going to do you much good,

right?

But what if your leg

is broken?

Well,

the new diet

will be good for you,

probably,

and many of the exercises

might be good, too.

But there's still

a deep brokenness

that needs to be fixed,

right?

Your broken bone

needs to be reset.

It needs to be mended.

It needs to be put right again.

And the Christian hope

rooted in the resurrection

of Jesus

is that God will one day

put it right again.

Not just this thing

or that thing,

but the whole thing.

In another passage,

Romans 8,

Paul puts it this way.

He says,

for the creation waits

with eager longing

for the revealing

of the sons of God.

For the creation

was subjected to futility,

not willingly,

but because of him

who subjected it in hope

that the creation itself

will be set free

from its bondage

to corruption

and obtain the freedom

of the glory

of the children of God.

For we know

that the whole creation

has been groaning

together

in the pains

of childbirth

until now.

All of creation

is groaning

and grinding

and waiting,

Paul says.

Don't we feel that?

God will set it free

and release it

from its bondage

to decay.

Even death,

the last enemy,

will be destroyed.

But how,

you might ask,

is the resurrection

of Jesus connected

to all that?

How does the resurrection

of Jesus connect

to any of that?

Well,

the answer is found

in that little word

in our passage,

that little word,

firstfruits.

Sort of a strange word.

Anybody here

grow up on a farm?

No one, right?

We're in urban New England.

No one does.

No one does a farm.

Firstfruits

is sort of a strange word,

right?

It's a term from agriculture.

It's a term from farming.

And the firstfruits

literally were just that.

They were the sort of

first part

of the coming crop

that you would harvest.

So if you had an olive grove

or a fig tree

and the sort of growing season

was coming to an end,

the firstfruits

were that initial

sort of batch

or basket

or plucking

of olives

or figs

that you could pick

and enjoy.

And here's the thing.

The firstfruits,

that first initial part

of the harvest,

would be like an indication

of what was to come

with the rest of the harvest.

So if you got

a good initial batch

of olives,

you'd expect a good year,

a good harvest.

It was a bit of a guarantee

of what was to come.

Now we do sort of get this

living in New England,

right?

Because our winters

are so dreadfully long

and dark,

right?

We spend months

in the cold

and then sometime

around February

we all think,

why do we live here?

Why aren't we moving

to like Virginia

or North Carolina

or St. Vincent,

you know?

The trees are bleak,

the grass is withered,

and then one day,

pushing up through the dirt

is a crocus.

This little flower,

seemingly where it doesn't belong,

this little like burst of color

amidst all the dead grass.

And then you know,

then you know,

the winter's passing away

and the spring is coming.

it's the first fruits

of what's to come.

It's the guarantee.

Paul says the resurrection

of Jesus Christ

is just like that.

It's the indicator.

It's the guarantee

of what's to come.

It's the advance

in breaking

of a coming harvest.

Now think with me

about the life

and death of Jesus.

In Jesus,

God took human flesh

and lived among us.

And he taught

and he healed

and he loved

and he instructed.

And what did we do?

How did humans respond?

You know,

sometimes we can think

to ourselves,

I wish God would just

make himself clear.

I wish God would just

quit hiding

and let me know

he's there.

And the truth is,

God did just that

in the person of Jesus.

And he even had it

all written down

so that we could

keep reading it

generation after generation.

God's not trying

to hide

or be secret.

There was no secret.

There was no hiding.

God came right

into our midst

in the best way

we could understand how

in our own flesh

and said,

this is what I'm like.

This is who I am.

But what did we humans do?

We saw him.

We heard him.

And then we rejected him.

Humanity ended up

doing its worst to Jesus.

We crucified him.

The living God

walked in our midst

and we consumed him

in our anger

and jealousy

and hatred

and fear.

It was as if

all the injustice

of human history

and all the twisted

self-centeredness

of humanity

was gathered up

into a single moment

and we unleashed it

on the very God

who made us

and who loves us

but whose presence

and rule

we wanted nothing

to do with.

And what was God's response?

Imagine if God

had given us

what we wanted

in that moment.

Imagine as we

crucified God,

God turned and said,

okay,

you want this world

without me.

You can have it.

Thy will be done.

What kind of world

would it be?

A scary place.

But that's not

what God did.

Instead,

God bore

the full verdict

of our enmity

and hatred,

went down

into the grave

and then he issued

a new verdict.

In the place

of the death

that we dealt,

God spoke life.

And in the place

of our hatred

and jealousy,

God spoke forgiveness.

God said,

you've done

your worst.

Now,

my will be done.

And Jesus Christ

rose from the dead,

overturning our evil

and our death

and in its place

bringing forth

goodness and life.

In other words,

in the resurrection,

God put it right.

And that putting right

on Easter morning

was,

as Paul says,

the first fruits.

As in Jesus Christ,

one day,

one day,

over all creation,

every injustice

and every evil

and every disordered

rule and authority

will be overturned

and put right

through the one

who was raised,

the Lord Jesus Christ,

who bears in his own

resurrected body

the verdict of God,

the verdict of God

that human evil

and injustice

don't have the last word.

No,

that God will

be all in all.

Now,

is that just wishful thinking?

That God could overturn

the deeply entrenched

brokenness of the world

and set creation free

from its bondage

to decay?

Is that just

some wish dream?

not if Christ

has been raised

from the dead.

It's as certain

as the crocus

speaking of the coming spring.

And that means

if the bodily resurrection

of Christ

is true,

then all those

deep longings

you and I have

for justice

and for a world

made right and whole,

all those deep longings

that are so deep

in our heart

we can't escape them,

they're not just daydreams.

They're harbingers,

they're signs

within us

of what's actually

to come

and of which

God gave the guarantee

in raising his son

from the dead.

And that means

when we act

on those longings,

when we love

and when we serve

and when we even sacrifice,

you know,

we're not just

arranging deck chairs

on the Titanic

because if everything's

just going to

peter out

into the frozen waste

of an ever-expanding universe,

what more are we doing?

But if Christ

has been raised,

every act of love

and justice

and service

is enacting

the future.

We're witnessing

to what will be true

forevermore.

We're saying

there's hope

for the world

in the resurrection

of Jesus Christ.

But it's not just

hope for the world,

friends.

It's hope for you.

Paul says

in verse 20

that all this

isn't just about

kingdoms

and rule

and authority

and putting

the world

to rights.

It's also about

those who have

fallen asleep,

which,

as you probably guessed,

is Paul's way

of talking about

those who have died.

what hope is there

for you and me

facing the very real,

ultimately inevitable

prospect

that we will die?

Now, many religions

have some sort of notion

of an afterlife,

whether it's sort of

existing in a spiritual state

or being reincarnated

into a different life

altogether

and sort of going

through cycles

where you can eventually

sort of be united

with sort of the oneness

that is the universe.

There are lots of ways

of thinking about

the afterlife,

but Christianity

is actually quite unique.

Christianity says

not just your spirit

or your soul,

but your body

is going to be

rescued from death.

A number of years ago,

a French philosopher

named Luc Ferry

wrote a book

called A Brief History

of Thought,

A Philosophical Guide

to Living.

And in this book,

which is quite interesting,

he sort of traces

different worldviews

and different philosophies

and sort of what makes

them able to carry

the weight of living

and ultimately

of facing death.

And even though

he's not a Christian himself,

he writes in that book

about how Christianity

was actually incredibly unique

because only Christianity,

he says,

is the one philosophy,

the one worldview

that says

we will eventually see

the face

of our loved ones

face to face.

Not spiritually,

not metaphorically,

but actually

because of the resurrection

of the body.

And then he goes on

sort of as a historian

of philosophy to say,

and in the first century

and second century

and third century,

Christianity just swept

the field.

No one could compare to it.

There were beautiful systems

of thought.

There was a beautiful system

of thought called Stoicism,

which was about sort of

self-control

and determination

and ultimately

this hope

that the good

that you do

will sort of

echo out into the world

and you'll be sort of

combined with the one,

the sort of all soul

that guides

and governs all.

But Ferris says,

that might be a nice thought,

but it can't hold a candle

to seeing your loved ones

face to face.

But how could that be?

How could that be?

How could there be hope

for you and me

in the face of death?

Paul puts it this way.

He says,

For as by a man came death,

by a man has come also

the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die,

so also in Christ

shall all be made alive,

but each in his own order.

Christ, the firstfruits,

there's that word again.

Then it is coming,

those who belong to Christ.

Paul's sort of saying,

it's your birthright, you know.

It's your birthright

that you gained

from our first parents in Adam.

It's your birthright to die.

That's what you get

for being a human.

Mortality.

But there's a new family

you can be part of.

Because a second Adam,

a new Adam has come.

And in this new Adam,

in Christ,

death has been overcome.

He actually went through death

and was raised.

And if you belong to him,

you too will be raised.

Now does that seem

too hard to believe?

They scratch their heads

about that in the first century too,

you know.

Later in this very chapter

in 1 Corinthians 15,

Paul kind of speaks

to that very question.

How can the dead be raised?

What sort of body

could that be?

Well, Paul says,

you know,

when you put a seed

in the ground,

what happens?

The seed dies, as it were.

It sort of nearly falls apart.

But then something wonderful happens.

From the ground,

up springs new life.

Now just think.

Think of all the bodies.

God the creator has made.

Think of the millions

of species of animals

and plants

and birds

and fish,

each with its own unique,

perfectly suited body.

Think of the stars

and the planets.

If God is able

to make earthly bodies

and heavenly bodies,

don't you think

this God could make

a resurrection body?

And that's just

what he's done.

It's not wishful thinking

because God's already

proved he can

and will do it.

On Easter morning,

when the tomb

was found empty

and the risen Jesus

met the disciples,

he wasn't just showing them

what the Father

had done for him.

He was showing them

what was going to be true

of them

because of him.

He had broken down

the door.

He had put the crack

in the dam.

He was the firstfruits,

the guarantee that,

yes,

God can and will

do it.

Do you wonder

what this resurrection body

will be like?

Again,

later in this chapter,

Paul will speak

to that too.

He says,

right now,

our bodies are perishable.

They wear out.

They get old.

But what is raised

will be imperishable.

They'll never get old,

wear out,

or die.

Right now,

he says,

our bodies carry

the weight of dishonor,

of shame.

How deeply we feel that.

How deeply we're coming

to understand

how our bodies

carry

the wrongs

that we've done

or the wrongs

that have been done to us,

the trauma

and the sin

and the scars.

Paul says,

our bodies right now

carry that.

But in the resurrection,

he says,

we'll be raised in glory.

The body will no longer

carry the weight of sin.

Right now,

he says,

our bodies are weak.

There are things

we wish to accomplish,

goals we wish to reach

that we know

will never complete.

I read somewhere

that that's basically

the definition

of middle age

when you realize

that you're not going

to accomplish

all your goals.

If you're 20,

sorry,

it's coming.

You know,

we're weak.

And we're weak

not just because

of good creaturely limits.

There's good limits

to our life,

but we're weak

because of the fallen

weakness

of our present bodies.

But these bodies,

Paul says,

will be raised in power.

Imagine having the freedom.

The freedom

not to exceed

our creaturely limits,

but to live

within them

and to accomplish

the very things

for which you were created.

This is the Christian hope

grounded in the resurrection

of Jesus Christ.

Because he has been raised,

so will all those be raised

who belong to him.

And that means something

very powerful.

It means that the frustrations

of this life,

the limitations

of this life,

all the things you never

got to do in this life,

they're not the final word.

Paul will end this chapter

by saying,

therefore,

my beloved brothers and sisters,

be steadfast,

immovable,

always abounding

in the work of the Lord,

knowing that in the Lord

your labor is not in vain.

The work of this life,

Paul is saying,

is not in vain.

It's not empty.

Even when it seems incomplete,

even when it seems riddled

with setbacks and disappointments,

it's not in vain.

Why?

Because of the resurrection.

Because the future

that God has in store

is not some alternate reality

or some escape

or wholesale rejection

of what's happened

in this life

or in your life.

No, the deeds

that you have sown,

the labors you have expended,

the weariness

that is gathered

in your bones

as you've run this race

with endurance,

none of it's in vain.

Because God's going to take

what's perishable

and what's weak

and yes,

what's even dishonorable

and he's going to sweep it up

and make it new

in the resurrection.

The question is,

will you and I

on this Easter Sunday

give ourselves

to the resurrected Jesus

to belong to him?

As Paul says in verse 23,

can you and I say,

can you say

that you belong

to Christ?

If you are a Christian,

then that's true of you

and you have this hope.

So live it,

brothers and sisters.

Live it out.

Be steadfast.

Be immovable.

Always abounding

in the work of the Lord

and do it with joy

and peace

and faithfulness

because you have a hope

that cannot be taken away.

A hope that's as certain

as the coming of spring.

A hope of a world made right

and you made new

right in the midst of it.

But if you're here

and you're not a Christian,

then I wonder,

what would it take for you

to consider

giving yourself

to the risen Christ?

Perhaps you need

to spend more time

considering the historicity

of the resurrection of Jesus.

After all,

if this is what's at stake,

isn't it worth

taking just a little time

to consider

whether it's true?

There's actually

a book table at the back

Pastor Matt mentioned

with lots of great resources

to do that.

Take one.

Consider it for yourself.

No one should go through life

without seriously considering

the claims of Jesus' resurrection.

This is your chance.

But of course,

belonging to Christ

is more than just

an intellectual endeavor, right?

You can believe

something is true

without really giving

your allegiance to it.

I believe that the Chiefs

won the Super Bowl this year.

But my heart still belongs

to the Philadelphia Eagles,

as silly and strange

and as perpetually heartbreaking

as that will be, right?

What keeps you from giving

your allegiance to Jesus Christ?

What keeps you from belonging to Him?

You know, whatever it is,

however you would answer

that question,

and we all have to answer

that question at some point

in our life,

whatever it is that keeps you

from belonging to Him,

I hope you see,

I hope you see that long before

you and I ever considered

whether or not

you should give your life to Him,

He decided to give His life for you.

And who else would do such a thing?

Your work,

your friends,

your family,

these are all good things,

but none of them

ever gave themselves

so fully for you

as He did.

Whatever it might cost you

to belong to Jesus

is nothing compared

to what you gain.

a lover of your soul,

a friend in the darkest night,

and hope like an anchor

that cannot be shaken,

the defeat of sin and death

and resurrection life.

Friends, let's give ourselves to Him.

Let's pray.

Let's pray.

Father, in the midst of the busyness

of a holiday weekend

and just the general busyness

of our lives

and the noise of so much

that crowds in around us,

we pause just for a minute now

in silence and stillness before you,

asking for your Spirit to come

and open our hearts to you.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Father, by your Spirit,

help us to live

as people of the resurrection

and open the eyes

of the hearts of those

who want to believe in you

but who have such a hard time doing so.

Lord, come with your grace.

Make yourself real.

And draw your people to yourself,

we pray.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

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