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Open the Bible UK Daily

3 minute daily Bible reflections from Open the Bible UK, authored by Colin Smith, read by Sue McLeish.

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02:27

How You Live Reveals What You Believe about the...

Open the Bible UK Daily ·

2025/07/17

If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."1 Corinthians 15:32As long as you feel that this life is all you have, you will feel that you have to hold on to it and preserve it for yourself. But if you truly come to believe in the resurrection, you will feel that you can spend your life, and if need be, lay down your life, in serving God by serving others. Who will be ready to endure hardship so that the gospel will be taken to the ends of the earth? Those who truly

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02:44

Your Belief in the Resurrection Will Shape How You Live

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2025/07/16

If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."1 Corinthians 15:32When you look at the good that has been done in this world over the centuries, you will find that a large part of it has been done by people who believe that they are preparing for a world to come—hospitals built, schools opened, children fostered.Believing in the resurrection will shape how you live. Here is a glimpse of how the apostle Paul lived: he was “in danger every hour” (15:30), and he “die[d] every

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02:37

A Faith for “This Life Only” Leads to Indulgence

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2025/07/15

If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”1 Corinthians 15:32A faith for “this life only” sounds liberating, but it leads to indulgence.The words “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die”, are in quotation marks because Paul is quoting a popular proverb. This is what people were saying about life in this world, and the saying is so old that it was quoted by Isaiah in the Old Testament (Isa. 22:13). This is the wisdom of this world, as it has been through the ages

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02:59

A Faith for “This Life Only” Cannot Deliver Us from Evil

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2025/07/14

Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father... For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.1 Corinthians 15:24-25Paul shows us that although a faith for “this life only” sounds relevant, it cannot deliver.Every generation wants to make the world a better place, and we can thank God for progress in medicine, science, technology, education, justice, and human rights. But there is also a profound sense in which the world never changes. Every human innovation

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03:14

A Faith for “This Life Only” Offers No Hope

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2025/07/13

If Christ has not been raised... your faith is in vain... Your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.1 Corinthians 15:14, 17The resurrection matters, and believing in the resurrection will give you a new hope, a new confidence, and a new purpose. But a “this life only” message will leave you without hope for at least three reasons.1. Without the resurrection, your faith would be futile“If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile” (15: 17). Dead men can teach you through their

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02:34

Does Your View of the Resurrection Really Matter?

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2025/07/12

Avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened.2 Timothy 2:16-18Some people would say, “This is just a different interpretation of Christianity, and it has some things to commend it.” But Paul says, “No. This teaching is like gangrene. If you embrace it, it will lead you into more and more ungodliness. It

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02:52

Don’t Put Your Hope in This Kind of Resurrection

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2025/07/11

Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened.2 Timothy 2:17-18What was the message of the false teachers about the resurrection? Perhaps an analogy will help. The life of Martin Luther King Jr. was tragically cut short, but what he stood for continues through people who believe what he believed and teach what he taught.It may be that Hymenaeus and Philetus said something like this about Jesus: “The life of Jesus was

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02:30

Your Hope of Sharing in Jesus’ Resurrection Life

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2025/07/10

If Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?1 Corinthians 15:12The central truth of 1 Corinthians 15 is that Jesus was raised from the dead, and we who receive and continue in the gospel will share in His resurrection life.But it seems that some at Corinth had denied this wonderful truth. That’s clear from verse 12: “How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?” They denied that believers will rise from the

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02:48

Why You Won’t Find Hope in This Kind of Faith

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2025/07/09

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received…1 Corinthians 15:3Many of the Corinthian believers were standing and holding fast to the gospel. But some were abandoning the faith they once professed.The world is always inventing new words to describe old sins. One word you might be familiar with is the word deconstructing. We hear about people deconstructing their faith. They have concluded that the faith they once professed is merely a human construct—that it was put together by

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03:05

An Invitation, a Warning, and a Promise

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2025/07/08

The gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you.1 Corinthians 15:1-2Whether you are a newer Christian, a long-time Christian, or you are still exploring the faith, Paul has something to say to you today.1. Receive the Gospel“ The gospel I preached to you, which you received...” (15:1). Jesus offers grace for your past, present, and future. But you must receive this grace by believing the gospel

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02:20

You Can Find Strength to Do All That God Has Called...

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2025/07/07

I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.1 Corinthians 15:10Where did Paul get the energy to do the work he was called to do? Paul tells us what he endured as an apostle. He was beaten, stoned, lashed, and shipwrecked. He lists days without food, nights without sleep, and exposure to danger and cold. And then he says, “There is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches” (2 Cor. 11:28).These are good verses to reach for when you are

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02:20

You Can Find Hope in Jesus When You Still Have a Long...

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2025/07/06

By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain.1 Corinthians 15:10When we think of what we were, we can use it as a lens through which to view what Jesus has done in our lives. Our sins, horrible as they were, are what He has redeemed us from. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ has brought a change in our lives. We are no longer the person we were.The answer to our shame and regrets from the past is more than, “It’s ok, because I’m forgiven.” The answer is to say, “By

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03:04

You Can Find Hope in Jesus for Past Sins

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2025/07/05

I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 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.1 Corinthians 15:9-10The word grace is used three times in these verses. This whole chapter is about how the grace of Jesus changes the future for all who believe. But Paul begins with the effect of grace on

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02:44

You Can Find Hope in the Resurrected One

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2025/07/04

I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ... was raised on the third day.1 Corinthians 15:3-4Jesus dying for our sins would not have been good news if He had not been raised from the dead. If Jesus had not been raised, hope, for us, would have died and been buried with Him. But Christ was raised on the third day, and this is of “first importance.”The Bible records twelve occasions when the risen Lord appeared to His disciples, and Paul lists six of them here in 1

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03:09

What the Bible Tells Us about Sin

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2025/07/03

Christ died for our sins.1 Corinthians 15:3Here are five things God says about sin in the Bible.1. Our sins are offences against God. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). Sin is not an occasional lapse in standards we set for ourselves. It is our consistent falling short of the life to which God calls us.2. Our sins alienate us from God. “They are… alienated from the life of God” (Eph. 4:18). This is the reason why the default human experience is that God seems far

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02:52

The Bible Says This Is of First Importance

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2025/07/02

I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins... that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.1 Corinthians 15:3What Paul presents here, he says, is of “first importance” (15:3). Don’t lose sight of what matters most: “Christ died for our sins... he was buried... [and] he was raised on the third day” (15:3–4).Notice, when Paul talks about what matters most, one thing he includes is that “Christ died for our

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02:14

Hope in Jesus

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2025/07/01

Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 15:571 Corinthians 15 is a marvellous chapter, where the apostle Paul lays out the transforming power of the resurrection. This chapter is very practical and full of hope.Where do you find hope when your body is failing? Where do you find hope when your ministry is discouraging? You have been labouring for the Lord. You are faithful to the gospel, but there doesn’t seem to be much fruit, and sometimes you find

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03:10

What Is the Highest Good in Life?

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2025/06/30

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge.Psalm 73:28Asaph began Psalm 73 saying, “Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart” (73:1). What does it mean to say that “God is good to Israel?” The ancient philosophers —Plato, Socrates, etc.—used to debate what was the highest good in life. They used an old Latin phrase —the summum bonum—which is the highest good. What is the highest good?Asaph says to us: “It is good to be near to God” (73:28). In other

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02:19

Tell Your Story of God’s Grace

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2025/06/29

I [will] tell of all your works.Psalm 73:28This shows how far Asaph has come. In verse 15, the best thing Asaph could do for God’s people was to keep his thoughts to himself: “If I had said, ‘I will speak thus,’ I would have betrayed… your children.”Now he has something to say, a story of God’s grace to share that will bring strength to other believers. Every Christian has a story of God’s grace. Your story is still being written. Every time you go through an Asaph experience another chapter is

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02:37

Write Out Your Story

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2025/06/28

I [will] tell of all your works.Psalm 73:28If you have been wounded by a version of Christianity that makes the gospel seem like an endless list of demands and expectations, you need to take in the grace of God from Psalm 73.Asaph wrote out his story under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit and it has been preserved for our encouragement in the Scriptures. God has given us this psalm because Asaph is not the only one on this journey. When you go through an Asaph experience you may find it

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