Sermon Recap: Some Believe in Vain

<p>Sterling Edwards and Brian Bowman discuss the sermon from Week 1 of the First Things First series.</p><p><br></p><p>Some Believe in Vain:</p><p> 1. There is a way to believe that is in vain</p><p> 2. The gospel is never in vain</p><p> 3. Paul is saying that "it worked" in his life</p><p><br></p><p>1 Corinthians 15:1-11</p><p>1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand</p><p>2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you-- unless you believed in vain.</p><p>3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,</p><p>4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,</p><p>5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.</p><p>6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.</p><p>7 The he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.</p><p>8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.</p><p>9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.</p><p>10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.</p><p>11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.</p>