There are some things in life that we need to remember, like our car keys. We all know what it is like when we need a key and we forgot it or can’t find it. Frustration! At that moment we get consumed, don’t we? Nothing else seems to matter. For some people just remembering their name is something important! The Silver Alerts on Florida highways emphasize this.
For most of us, the things we forget aren’t really that important. Buying milk, paying the electric bill, and feeding the cat are not as important as helping a choking child, bringing a meal to a bedbound mother of three toddlers, or taking the car keys out of a drunk friend’s hands. Oops won’t suffice.
The same is true in our spiritual life. Some things are necessary for us to know and believe if we are to have eternal life. Paul outlines them starting in verse three. Christ died. His death was what the Old Testament Scriptures had said would happen to the Messiah. He was placed in a grave where He stayed until the third day. On the third day He was raised back to life just as the Old Testament Scriptures had said would happen. Then He appeared to individuals, groups and crowds. This wasn’t a secret reappearing, or a spiritual resurrection. This was the real death deal.
This is what the Corinthian believers were in danger of forgetting. There are not many things that make up the core of the Gospel. This is pretty much what is important, and what we must not forget. Without it we are sunk! Other things might be helpful and beneficial, but they don’t rate as important as these things. Don’t forget it!
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