Vain Faith?

Thinking through 1 Corinthians 15.13,14, this morning. Paul lays out a clear path to vain faith here. Some people are saying that there is no resurrection from the dead? Let's ponder the implications of that. No resurrection = Christ has not been raised = My (read all) preaching is vain = Your faith is vain. The path to vain faith begins with Christ not being raised from the dead and ends up squarely in my own lap. Everything, and I do mean E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g, rests upon Christ's resurrection, or, as one commentator put it: Take out the resurrection of Jesus, and there is nothing left on which to rest faith—only the decomposing corpse of an itinerant Jewish carpenter-turned-rabbi.

Fortunately, since Christ did rise from the dead, we do not have vain faith.

Thank you, Lord God, for raising Christ from the dead so that our faith is not in vain; we are not still in our sins; and we have vibrant hope for eternity.