No Corruption

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

NO CORRUPTION

1 Cor 15:32-34

If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."   33 Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God — I say this to your shame.

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We are continuing the look at the resurrection, whether it is or it isn’t and how we are to live if it is, and how we should not live if it is, and the way we actually live as if it isn’t. Well at least the way some live as if it isn’t. It would appear some of those in Corinth were living as eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die, which is to say they had no restrictions on their lives and really did not think there would actually be a resurrection into the presence of God when they died. We surely do not live as if there is no resurrection, for we know it is true and it will happen as surely as Jesus was resurrected. But do we live, at least in part, or at times, as though we are not concerned about having to stand before God? Do we partake in the same behavior time after time, thinking because we are believers and that Christ died for our sins so we are automatically forgiven? Could that be in any way living as if there is no resurrection? It is assured that we cannot continue to associate on an extremely close level with those who do not believe as we do. Yes we need to develop a relationship with them, for the soul purpose of sharing the gospel message, but we should not be hanging around them, being friends, engaging in life with them, doing all they do, taking on their philosophies of life. Sure some of us do not accept their thinking about drink, eat and be merry, or smoking, or abortions, or premarital relations, or adultery, or a whole slew of other behaviors, but have we accepted their concepts about frame and future? Do we pursue life based on our own ambitions, our own goals, and our own desires? Is that not having a good character corrupted by bad company? Is that living as if there is no resurrection, trying to store up as much as we can here, in this life, because this is all we have? That surely is what they are doing, yet we still hear them, unbelievers, yet religious, talk about going to heaven when people die. Are they simply the ones who are ignorant of God? Could we be ignorant in any way? Is there something we do not know about God, about the resurrection? If we know about it, we should live in accordance with that truth. We cannot afford to be corrupted.