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March 26, 1998
In our culture, we often try to hide from the reality of death. Alistair Begg points out that in reality, the key to learning how to live is learning how to die. Unpacking Paul’s teaching on the resurrection, he shares the hope that believers have in the face of death: “The perishable will put on the imperishable.” Christ bore the whole of death and sin in order that we would have to bear none of it. Death no longer has its sting.
50I tell you this, brothers: qflesh and blood rcannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Behold! I tell you a mystery. sWe shall not all sleep, tbut we shall all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For uthe trumpet will sound, and vthe dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and wthis mortal body must put on immortality. 54When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
x“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55y“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
56The sting of death is sin, and zthe power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, awho gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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