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Archive for February 27th, 2008

Death, where is your sting?

Posted by theologyandsteak on February 27, 2008

My father-in-law passed away last Wednesday, February 20th, and we had the funeral on Monday February 25th.  He was a man of God that went home to be with the Lord.  The funeral made me think some about life and death, eternity, and what lies beyond the world that we all know.  Some people will tell you that this life is all there is, and that death is the end.  However, for Christians, death is a result of sin, and beyond death is our eternal abode, whether with the Lord or forever without Him in torment and punishment for treason against a Holy and Righteous God.  Christians can be assured that we will be with the Lord when are no longer with the body.  Paul, in 1 Corinthians writing about the resurrection, states that we will be resurrected with a new imperishable body.  He writes,

54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

  ”Death is swallowed up in victory.”

 55 ”O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

My father-in-law is now with the Lord waiting for his resurrection.  He is now praising the Lord of Heaven and Earth, the Savior and Lord Jesus Christ.  Cancer does not inhabit his body any longer, but now only praise and worship and joy at the feet of Christ.  We will all miss him, but we will see him again one day.  Paul again writes in 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.  We do not grieve like others who have no hope.  Our hope is in the Lord.  And just as Christ was dead, buried, and rose again, and conquered death, so will we one day reap the rewards of His conquest of death.  We miss you, “pawpaw,” but we know we will see you again. 

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