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First Corinthians 15:1-58

I Corinthians 15:1 and 2:

15:1But I make-known to you, brothers, the good-message which I good-messaged to you which also you received (from me), in which also you stood2, .2by means of which also you are being saved with some word I good-messaged to you since you have held2 (it) down – outside-of except you yieldingly believed! –   

Paul again addresses the Corinthian church of holy-people (sanctified-people, Christians, saints, children of the only true God) as "brothers" reminding them that they all, including himself, have received exactly the same holy spirit-life from God by means of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were all brothers in the spirit category and God was their Father and they were His children.

He writes: but I make personally known to all of you, brothers, the good-message (gospel, evangel)…

These people didn't have to know everything and believe everything before they were saved! But nobody can be saved and receive holy spirit-life without believing what God says regarding Himself and His son, the Lord Jesus Christ (refer to Romans 10:8-10), and nobody can un-receive (lose) holy spirit-life at any time once it has already been received.

Now Paul writes something that may seem like a strange statement to make: “outside-of except you yieldingly believed!” The Corinthian holy-people are now saved and they still hold-down the basics of the good-message – but this is excluding the exception that they believed (had faith, trusted that word) in a relinquishing manner, without purpose. Is there definitely no purpose to having already believed God's Word which Paul taught them and which they were still holding firmly? He states it this way to encourage them to immediately reply, "Oh, we didn't yieldingly believe – yes, there is definitely a purpose!"

But, remembering that Paul had received a letter or letters from the Corinthian church, plus he had heard regarding them from other people, he is jolting the mind of the reader to recognize that the good-message which Paul had already preached to them was and still is the foundation of their standing with God, and it also includes a continuation of living in accordance with it during the everyday living of their lives, plus it includes a future continuation of living in accordance with it. It is not a case of believing the word of the good-message once and then forgetting about it and the rest of the good-message!

[Reference: Romans 1:16, 10:8-10, and 13:4; I Corinthians 1:17, 18, 7:30, 11:2, and 14:5(b); Galatians 1:11 and 12; I Thessalonians 2:13(a).]

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