“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (I Corinthians 15:58)
The word “therefore,” links what was said before to what is said afterward. It answers the question, “So What?”
In this case, what was said before is that Christ died for us, was buried, arose three days later, was seen of eyewitnesses, that He is coming back, the dead in Christ will be raised in the resurrection and the Christians living when He returns will be caught up, carried away with Him in what is called the rapture. Those in the resurrection and those in the rapture will receive new bodies like His glorious body.
The “so what,” is found in our text. Keep on keeping on. Your labor in the Lord is not in vain. You and I serve a Living Savior, not a dead, martyred Jew off in some unknown grave in the Middle East.
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