Spoonful of the old medicine "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain," 1 Corinthians 15:1-2. (Preached in Lewes FPC, Lord's Day morning, September 6th, 2015) Sometimes important issues are dealt with immediately in correspondence or in conversation while at other times we feel it best to deal with them last that they might therefore have the greater impression. In this epistle, Paul leaves to the last the vital matter of the resurrection of the body. The believers in Corinth had been drawn into error on this matter. It was necessary for him to correct them. The resurrection of the body is something natural man rejects. Corinth was a city filled with the philosophy of the heathen. The doctrine of the resurrection met with great opposition. The reaction of the Greeks is seen in Acts 17:16-18, 32. The attitude in Corinth would have been the same. The work of the minister is to constantly preach the truth of the Gospel in the teeth of the opposition of rejection, falsehoods and deception. That Paul was doing this through this epistle. Here he reiterates the Gospel. It must have appeared strange to heathen audiences when they heard the message that the glorious Deliverer that these Christian declared was One Who was rejected by those He came to save and was killed in a most ignominious manner. Yet such is the Gospel. Its principal article is the death of Christ.