1 Corinthians 15:1-58

Novelist Philip Roth once said "In every calm and reasonable person there is a hidden second person scared witless about death." … Studies revealed that when people consciously think about death, they just want to get it out of their minds, largely by convincing themselves, as … Steve Chaplin puts it, "Not me, not now." They say, "I'm young, I'm healthy, I'm going to start eating right." But when death is on the fringes of consciousness, threatening to pop up, we keep it at bay by leaning on the defenses we learned as children. We try to comfort ourselves: "I'm good, so I'm protected; I'm special, I'm part of something great; I last, I'm above the fray, an eternal soul, not a mere material thing."

Fear of death
Fear of the way we might die
Fear of the hardship for our families
Fear of the unknown
Fear of judgment

What we will become

It certainly flew high on the radar of the Corinthian Christians
Fix your eyes on Jesus Paul says
With this one certainty we all face

1 Corinthians15:12-14
12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. 14 And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.

Reports had come in while he was living in Ephesus
Some in Corinth were denying a future resurrection of the body
It was leading some of the household of believers astray
Others were left with a shaky faith
How we come at death is will affect how we understand our new life in Christ