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Life After Life: Answers about the Hereafter Should We Fear Death? 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 Dr. Stephen Rummage, Senior Pastor Bell Shoals Baptist Church October 1, 2017 1 Corinthians 15:50 (ESV) I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 1 Corinthians 15:51 (ESV) Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 1 Corinthians 15:52 (ESV) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:53 (ESV) For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:54 (ESV) 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.” 1 Corinthians 15:55 (ESV) “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:56 (ESV) The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (ESV) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:58 (ESV) 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. Christians do not need to fear death because …
1. Jesus has redefined death. 1 Corinthians 15:51 (ESV) Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep …
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John 11:11 (ESV) After saying these things, He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” Acts 7:60 (ESV) And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Revelation 14:13 (ESV) And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
2. Jesus has transformed death. 1 Corinthians 15:51 (ESV) … but we shall all be changed, 1 Corinthians 15:52 (ESV) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:53 (ESV) For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:50 (ESV) I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
3. Jesus has conquered death. 1 Corinthians 15:54 (ESV) 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.” 1 Corinthians 15:55 (ESV) “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:56 (ESV) The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (ESV) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
3 2 Timothy 1:10 (ESV) and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 1 Corinthians 15:58 (ESV) 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. How Jesus’s victory over death can help you move forward … 1. You have hope no matter what happens in life. 2. Your time on earth has an eternal purpose. 3. You can live with courage by God’s grace.
