When preaching on the resurrection, we usually refer to the Gospels. In 1 Corinthians 15 is a wonderful teaching of victory in death. According to Paul...we move from perishable to imperishable, mortality to immortality, and to a real sense of victory. One of the great victory images is "death without sting." Imagine the resurrection being so glorious that death has no pain! How wonderful for those who have died in the faith. And for us in Christ to have the sting of death removed. Here is the teaching...
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
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