OUR FATHER PUT ALL THINGS UNDER THE FEET OF HIS SON

1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 12 - 28.

12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

The apostle Paul, having established that the gospelˋs foundation was the death, burial and ressurection of the Lord Jesus Christ, points out that some of the Corithians were claiming that there is no such thing as the ressurection of the dead.

Paul counters the claim by saying that if there is no ressurection of the dead, that meant that Christ himself had not risen and if Christ had not risen, what Paul had been preaching was pointless and their faith was in vain.

Paul proclaimed that the entirety of Christianity pivots on one point; Jesus Christ rose from the dead. If Christ did not rise from the dead, faith in Him is fultile and we are all still in our sins and we will perish along with everyone else and believers would be the most pitiable for having placed our faith what was not going to save us.

However, with all the witnesses who were still alive at that time to attest to the factuality of Christˋs ressurection, Paul asserted that the ressurection from the dead for believers was going to happen because death came to mankind through one man named Adam and likewise, life would come to mankind through the one man Jesus Christ.

20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. 27 For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

Paul, looking far into the distant future, builds on the assertion that there will indeed be a ressurection and that this ressurection represents the  last enemy that Christ will destroy which is death.  When Christ is revealed at the time of the end, He will have dissolved the heirachies the kingdom of darkness made of rulers and authorities and powers and all things will have been put under Christˋs feet and as Paul indicates, the ˋall thingsˋ excludes the One who put all things under His feet. 

At this time, Christ will then hand the victorious kingdom to His Father and will Himself be subject to the one who put all things under Him and this final state unifies everything in God.

Amen.

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