1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Christ and the resurrection gospel 1 Corinthians 15:1-11: "Christ was raised to life" is the very heart of gospel preaching. Paul and all early gospel preachers proclaimed that Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and three days later He was raised to life again. The thing that made the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus so significant was that He is the only man that ever died for our sins. Psalms 16:10 directly predicted the resurrection of the Christ. "For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."

The proof of the resurrection was in the fact that Jesus appeared to Peter, then to the twelve, after that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren, then to James and finally to Paul, himself. Paul was overwhelmed that the Lord had appeared to him because he had caused so much trouble for God's church. He considered himself to be the least important of all the apostles. He felt that he did not even deserve to be called an apostle. Seeing Jesus and being forgiven caused Paul to work even harder than others in the Lord's kingdom. Paul attributed all of the good that was in him and the entire good that he did to the grace of God.