Thanks be to Him

I Corinthians 15 cont’d:

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;  but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yesterday we talked about the sting of death.

The whole reason we have to suffer and endure the sting of death is because of sin.  Sin entered this world, and separated man from God.  Sin is turning away from God in disobedience, choosing our own whims and desires, apart from what he has instructed us to do.  And because of one man’s sin, death became his fate.

But…

Thanks be to God!

In his mercy and love and grace, he had a plan from the beginning to redeem us to himself, even though he knew we would turn away and reject him.

He sent his Son to take on the sins of the world, to become sin for us, to endure all of the punishment of sin instead of us, and to conquer the effects of sin to free us.

In other words, when we were lost, doomed to lose our lives forever, he stepped in and saved the day.

Thank you God, for the victory that is ours over death – over the power of sin – over the law – and over ourselves and our destructive ways.

Thank you, Jesus!