Immortality

It’s very important to understand how absolutely foreign death is to God. In Him there only exists life. Our death in the natural world was never meant to be anything other than ushering us into everlasting life in Him—His life. Paul tells us that, “this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about what is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’…The last enemy that will be abolished is death.”(1 Corinthians 15:24-26)

What’s interesting about this is that our theme verse—“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law”—follows so closely on the heels of this explanation of God’s victory over death.(1 Corinthians 15:56) This should help us to appreciate how close the relationship is between the concepts of law, sin, death and life.

So when Paul says “consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus,” we know that it must have profound meaning for our life here on earth—not merely in the life hereafter.

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