Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Death's Epilogue

We preach Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. To unbelievers, a scandal and an outrage. To those who are being saved, the power of God.

Why is this? Is death good? No, death is not good. Death is an enemy and the last enemy that will be put to death. Death is a formidable foe. Even though condemned by Jesus’s death, death remains strong. He rattles his sword and attacks even the saints of God.

Death can make dead. But there is one thing that death cannot do. Death cannot make alive again. This is why we Christians do not fear death. He can harm us. He can even kill us. But he cannot keep us dead.

Because Jesus has risen from the dead, there is no more Pharisean/Sadducean debate about the Resurrection of the Dead. The dead do rise and all that are in Christ rise with Christ.
Thus, the Epilogue of Death is “In the end, death died and there was none who could resurrect him. And all those saints he killed, rose from the dead and stood over his grave and laughed at his inability to make alive again.”

Dear Saints, the death of Jesus was our death to the power of sin and death. The Resurrection of Jesus is the power of our life in Resurrection to life.

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