9 For I am the LEAST of the apostles and do not even DESERVE to be called an apostle, because I PERSECUTED THE CHURCH OF GOD.

-1 Corinthians 15:9

a. Read the OLD TESTAMENT for inspiration and motivation 

but not APPLICATION.

b. Take your APPLICATION cues from 

Jesus’ new covenant COMMAND.

5 In your RELATIONSHIPS with one another, have the SAME MINDSET as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

-Philippians 2:5-7

32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, JUST AS IN CHRIST God forgave you.

-Ephesians 4:32

19 … You are not your own; 20 you were BOUGHT at a PRICE. Therefore HONOUR GOD with your bodies.

-1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Paul’s letter to Corinthian believers is INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE that Jesus’ resurrection was accepted as fact IMMEDIATELY, not EVENTUALLY

1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to REMIND you of the gospel I PREACHED to you, … 3 For what I RECEIVED I passed on to you as of first importance: that CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was BURIED, that he was RAISED on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to CEPHAS, and then to the TWELVE. 6 After that, he appeared to more than FIVE HUNDRED of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are STILL LIVING, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then he appeared to JAMES, then to all the apostles,

-1 Corinthians 15:1,3-7

CHRIST DIED for our sin and was BURIED, He ROSE from the dead and was SEEN.

Christianity is the result of an EVENT that created a MOVEMENT that produced TEXTS that were collected, protected and bound into a BOOK.