O death, where is your
victory? O death, where is your sting? 1 Corinthians 15:55
The
word sting used here could be used in
a literal sense when talking about the sting of a bee or the strike of a
serpent. Though death still violates us
today—though it still invades our world—though death has not yet been
ultimately swallowed up in victory, Paul tells us that the stinger of death—the
strike of death has been removed.
How? By Christ. You see, death plunged its stinger into Him
at the cross and it stayed there. Christ
bore the whole sting of death for us so that death for us who are in Him has no
sting. And though death put the stinger
in Christ, Christ returned the favor by putting the stinger back into death
conquering death by death to give us life.
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