“O death, where is
your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
On the one hand Death is the
triumph of Satan, the punishment of the Fall, and the last enemy. Christ shed
tears at the grave of Lazarus and sweated blood in Gethsemane: the Life of
Lives that was in Him detested this penal obscenity not less than we do, but
more. On the other hand, only he who loses his life will save it. We are
baptised into the death of Christ, and it is the remedy for the Fall. Death is,
in fact, what some modern people call “ambivalent.” It is Satan’s great weapon
and also God’s great weapon: it is holy and unholy; our supreme disgrace and
our only hope; the thing Christ came to conquer and the means by which He
conquered.
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