The wisdom I proclaim is God's secret wisdom, which is hidden from human beings, but which he had already chosen for our glory even before the world was made.

You should think of us as Christ's servants, who have been put in charge of God's secret truths.

I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing.

God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ.

God revealed his secret plan and made it known to me. (I have written briefly about this,

There is a deep secret truth revealed in this scripture, which I understand as applying to Christ and the church.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of his followers at once, most of whom are still alive, although some have died.

It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.

But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.

We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.

There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first;

He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.