10|15 “Let Us Eat and Drink, for Tomorrow We Die”
Notes
Why bother getting baptized if the dead aren't raised? Why endure hardship as a Christian if there's nothing beyond this life?
Paul presses the Corinthians with hard questions rooted in their own experience. If resurrection isn't real, then baptism for the dead makes no sense, daily danger for the gospel is pointless, and we might as well eat, drink, and live for today.
This message challenges casual faith and calls us to live with resurrection reality — expending ourselves now because a harvest is coming. If you're tired from serving, grieving, or wondering what it's all for — take heart.
The dead will be raised. Jesus is coming. Everything counts.
"29 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf? 30 Why are we in danger every hour? 31 I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day! 32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" (1 Co 15:29–32).
