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Third Series
Third of a series on "Rightly Dividing The Word Of Truth". Feel free to send comments or questions that you have about the Bible.
II Timothy 2:15 Study to Shew ourselves approved unto God a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. This series is about helping Christians to exhort challenge, and contend for faith and the word of God. God’s word and prayer are the two greatest tools we have in our Christian relationship. They both go hand in hand and become a great weapon against Satan when used and understood properly. We touched on some hermenentical points last time which means the art of interpretation. I mentioned four of these known as 1. Face value. 2. Context. 3. Collaborating scriptures and 4. Historical context. 1, 3 and 4 you can look back at last months article though they are pretty much self explanatory. Using 1, 3 and 4 in 1 Corinthians 15:1-32 I will focus on #2 which is context. The whole book of 1 Corinthians is basically talking to a church who is blasted with carnality stemming from the city of Corinth who had much idolatry. So when it came to church doctrine, Paul had a tough time with discipling many of them. Baptism became a vice; there was wisdom of men versus the power of God and the preaching of His holy word. Since they were carnal, their works could not be built on the right foundation of the apostles, prophets and of course Jesus Christ. That was just the first three chapters. There were many other things of which I will let you read on your own. In 1 Corinthians 15:1-32 it is about the physical resurrection and how the death, burial, and resurrection is our gospel by which we’ve received and been given and are saved. Now Verse 31 is the phrase “I Die Daily” and this is in the context of this passage and we must find the context in order to understand this phrase. The historical fact is Paul is talking to people who didn’t believe in the physical resurrection. Verse 12 brings this out. Verse 14-32 reels off all these reasons why there has to be a physical such as: if there’s no resurrection our preaching and faith is in vain and we are false witnesses and those who have died have perished for good. Verse 23-28 maps out the restoration of the kingdom and God being all in all and for this to happen there must be a physical resurrection. Verse 29 talks about baptism for the dead which was an old Jewish ritual, but the point was if you baptize for the dead what purpose is there if you don’t believe in the physical resurrection. Verse 30 and 31 are talking about Paul and his fellow Christians putting their life on the line for the cause of Christ and if there was no physical resurrection then all they did for Christ was ridiculous and they might as well eat, drink and be merry. This is the overall point Paul was trying to get across and that was putting their lives on the line for the cause of Christ had purpose and the physical resurrection was a necessity for their purpose. To collaborate scriptures to reconcile this point and understand more in death about the phrase “I Die Daily” we can read II Corinthians 4:10: Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. Just like God’s word and power go hand in hand, so do his death and resurrection. This spiritual and physical hope and reality makes me hunger and thirst for God’s holiness. ‘Til Next Time… Jerry Kelso 
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