(1Co 15:36) “Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:”  We so often overlook the fact that God determined how all things would work. He is the Creator of all things. Instead of just giving man a finished product, like manna in the wilderness, He brought forth all life from seed. This passage reveals that death brings forth life, picturing the resurrection!

(1Co 15:35) “But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?”  Unbelief is bound by its own lack of abilities. Man is finite. It is as the Lord Jesus said, (Matt 5:26b) “… thou canst not make one hair white or black.”  Such is ignorant of the truth shared by the angel Gabriel: (Luk_1:37) “For with God nothing shall be impossible.”  

(1Co 15:34) “Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.”  This is referring to “the righteousness of faith” (Rom 4:13); that is, the righteousness bestowed upon the soul at salvation, based upon their faith in the death, burial, “and” resurrection. This needs, now…….to be set forth before the unsaved.

 (1Co 15:33) “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”  A saying of the day being applied for understanding. If you take in the false, it will affect the true. Guard  your hearts, brethren. Don’t listen to false doctrine. Don’t read it; don’t study it: (1Co_10:12)  “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”  

(1Co 15:30) “And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? (31)  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. (32)  If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.”    Paul  believed and stood upon the truth of the death, burial, and resurrection so much, that saved His soul, that he was willing to suffer anything for that truth’s sake. What about you? What about me? Are we willing to do the same?

(1Co 15:30) “And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? (31)  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. (32)  If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.”  Today for the most part, the emphasis of those sharing the gospel is that by faith they can go to heaven. Two things are normally either brushed over or overlooked altogether: one, the Lord suffered in the sinner’s place on the cross, dying for them; and two, Jesus rose alive again from the dead. It is because men hate and reject those two points.

 (1Co 15:29) “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?”  In other words, (Rom_6:3) “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” and (Rom 6:7) “For he that is dead is freed from sin. (8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:” 

(1Co 15:28)  “And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”   Man desires “peace on earth”. Yet it will never comes as long as man’s spirit is dead and he lives in sinful flesh. It is not until those in Christ whose spirit is now made alive also receive their transformed bodies that such peace will be realized. Then shall every natural, lost man be removed to eternal torment.

(1Co 15:27) “For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.”  It is once again demonstrated to us that which we discern again and again in the Gospels: the Lord Jesus did not seek to glorify Himself; but Almighty God His Father. The world, yes, will rightly praise the Lord Jesus, the King of the Earth for a thousand years. Yet, in the end, it will God the Father Who will be exalted!

(1Co 15:25) “For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. (26)  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”  This actually refers to two parts of God’s plan still future: First, the thousand year reign (v.25); Second, the end of the world (no more death), resurrection of the lost, and their judgment ending in the Lake of Fire (v.26).