30 July 2007

Mystery and Victory


Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep. But, we shall all be changed, in a momemnt, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall all be changed.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 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
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 victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:51-58

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