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1 Corinthians
Listen: 1 Corinthians 15: Brothers, I am going to call your attention to the gospel that I preached to you. You received it, and you took your stand on it. 2 You are also being saved by that gospel that was expressed in the words I preached to you, if you keep your hold on it—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. (EHV)
哥林多前书15:1-5: 1弟兄们，我如今把先前所传给你们的福音，告诉你们知道。这福音你们也领受了，又靠着站立得住；2并且你们若不是徒然相信，能以持守我所传给你们的，就必因这福音得救。3我当日所领受又传给你们的，第一，就是基督照圣经所说，为我们的罪死了，4而且埋葬了，又照圣经所说，第三天复活了，5并且显给矶法看，然后显给十二使徒看，
自哥林多前书开始，我就一直盼着这一章，因为它关乎复活的强有力信息，而这也是福音的核心内容。那是记忆中一次愉快的经历。在乔去世的一周前，我坐在他的床边和他分享这章的内容。乔的妻子是我服事的第一家教会的一名成员，那时候乔对上帝还没有什么真正的兴趣。我邀请他一起去钓鱼就是想更好地了解他，并和他分享耶稣。当我从他的船爬上岸，我踩断了他最喜欢的两根鱼竿。不久以后，他就搬出了那个地方，我也和他失去了联系。
20年后，我到他居住的城市参加牧师大会。一个男人来到教堂前面的走廊上，眼里包含泪水，正是乔。他感谢我向他传福音。他常常向他的朋友提起，一个笨手笨脚的牧师和他分享了耶稣。
乔得了癌症。在他离世前一个星期，我赶过去看他最后一眼。他非常虚弱，甚至不能从床上坐起来。我坐在他的床边，和他聊了一会儿无关紧要的话题。乔说：“牧师，咱们别浪费时间了。我们一起学习一下哥林多前书第15章吧。”所以接下来的45分钟我们重温了这章的内容。
总有一天我会在天堂遇见乔，我们还会在一起度过美好的时光。如果可行，我们甚至可以一起在天堂钓鱼。又或者我们不会浪费时间，而仅仅享受沐浴在上帝荣耀的光辉里，这个上帝就是复活的和被尊崇的救主耶稣。
祷告：仁慈的耶稣，复活的主，你为置身于黑暗的我带来了盼望，并点亮了我的未来。到那时我将和你以及所有的圣徒相聚在天堂。请提醒我，藉着你的死，我已经和你一同埋葬了；也和你一同复活了。从此我拥有了新的生命，从今时到永远。阿们。
I have been waiting for this chapter since I started Corinthians because of its powerful message of the resurrection, which is at the heart of the gospel. I remember fondly sitting on Joel’s bed a week before he died and going through this chapter with him. Joel had been the husband of a member of my first church, someone not really interested in God at the time. I invited myself to go fishing with him just to get to know him better and share Jesus with him. When I was climbing out of his boat, I stepped on his two favorite fishing poles and broke them. Not long after, he moved out of the area and I lost touch with him.
Twenty years later I was at a pastoral conference in the city where he had moved. A man came up the aisle before church, with tears in his eyes. It was Joel and he thanked me for bringing the gospel to him. He had often told his friends about the clumsy pastor who shared Jesus with him.
Joel got cancer, and a week before he died, I traveled to see him one last time before he died. He was so weak that he could no longer get out of bed. I sat on his bed and made small talk for a few minutes, and Joel said, “Let’s not waste our time, Pastor. Let’s just study 1 Corinthians 15 together.” So for the next 45 minutes, that is what we did.
Someday I will see Joel in heaven and we will spend some time together. Maybe we will even go fishing, if you can do that in heaven. Or maybe we won’t waste our time but simply enjoy soaking in the radiance of God’s glory in the face of our risen and exalted Savior.
Prayer: Gracious Savior, risen Lord, you have given hope to my darkness and light to my future with you and all the saints in heaven. Remind me that I have been buried with you in your death and been raised to life with you so that I can walk in newness of life now and forever. Amen.