我们所传的福音
哥林多前书十五章1至8节
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；
6后来一时显给五百多弟兄看，其中一大半到如今还在，却也有已经睡了的。
7以后显给雅各看，再显给众使徒看，
8末了也显给我看；我如同未到产期而生的人一般。
信息分享
他在信中重述这个福音的方式，值得我们再三深思；他所说的每一句话，都带给我们启发。保罗指出，这福音原是他们「领受」的。换言之，不是他们自己发明出来的，而是神的使者传给他们的。
他们能靠这福音站立得稳，那当然表示这福音给他们极大的安全感。他们既因这福音而得救，但神仍要不住地在他们心中工作，以致作成得救的工夫。
他们必须持守这福音。人的一生经常要面对各类试探，导致我们的信心动摇，但他们靠着福音，便能站立得稳。
保罗继续道出福音的信息，指出基督为我们的罪受死的事实。我们不单要承认「我相信基督曾经受死」，更要承认「我相信基督为我的罪而死」。旧约早已预言基督要降世、要受死和埋葬，第三天从死人中复活。保罗所讲的一切都是照着旧约圣经所说的发生。那不是一个即兴的计划，而是神早已为我们预备的救恩计划，让我们今天为到得着救恩而欢欣。
这意味着耶稣基督确如保罗所言的，至今仍然活着。对保罗而言，他永难忘记他昔日在大马色路上遇见耶稣基督的那一刻。那次的经历，彻底地改变了他的一生。复活改变了耶稣的身体；同样地，复活的事实也改变了众使徒，以及保罗的生命。那么你呢？耶稣的复活对你的生命又有何影响呢？
反思：
一个人的彻底改变，就是基督复活的最大明证。别人能否在我的生命中看见这明证呢？
THE GOSPEL WE PREACH
1 Corinthians 15:1-8
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,
5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.
6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.
7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.
8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.
Message
Here he re-states the Gospel and does it in a remarkable way. Almost every word has something to say to us. Paul says they had 'received' the Gospel. It had come to them from outside themselves. They had not invented it; it had come to them from a messenger sent from God.
This message was one on which they could stand, a message of certainty that gave a wonderful sense of security. Through the Gospel they were being saved. The work was still going on in their hearts.
The Gospel was something they were to hold on to. Life makes many attempts to take our faith away from us, but here was something they had to cling to.
Paul turns to the message of the Gospel and speaks about the fact that Christ died for our sins. It is easy to say, 'I believe Christ died'. We need to go further and say, 'I believe Christ died for my sins! It had been foretold in the Old Testament that Christ would come, he would die and be buried. The third day he would rise again from the dead. All of these things Paul says were according to the Old Testament Scriptures. This was not done on the spur of the moment. It had all been planned by God for our salvation and we can rejoice in it today.
This means Jesus Christ is alive today and that is what Paul said. He could never forget that day on the road to Damascus when he met Jesus Christ. It had changed his whole life. Resurrection changed the body of Christ. The fact of the resurrection changed the apostles and later Paul. What has it done in your life?
A THOUGHT:
The greatest evidence of Christ's resurrection is a complete change. Can that be seen in me?