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the sting of death is sin
It is 1:40 PM Friday afternoon here in Western Michigan USA. I am an American. I am a child of the King. I headed for the heavenly City of God the New Jerusalem. I got up this morning around 7 o'clock AM. Carol left around 7:30 AM to have breakfast with an old friend. I spent the morning writing in my paper diary and reading, 'The Decades of Henry Bullinger' Volume 1 First Decade Sermon 8 The Apostle's Creed. I also filmed a short video this morning Friday Reads for my Youtube channel. Carol got home this morning around 11:01 AM. When she got home I was still at our dining room table reading Henry Bullinger and writing in my paper diary. Carol left this afternoon to do errands and I have been drifting. I am tired as usual and feel lifeless. I did receive in the mail a used book I bought titled, 'Tranquility' A Novel by Attila Bartis Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. Last night I mainly read till I went to bed, 'The End' A Novel by Attila Bartis. I am not sure what I will read this afternoon since I am out of it. I will close to wait it out. Tomorrow is a Saturday. Tomorrow evening Carol and I go down the street to celebrate Christmas with our oldest son and his family. [35] But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
[36] Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
[37] And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
[38] But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
[39] All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
[40] There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
[41] There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
[42] So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
[43] It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
[44] It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
[45] And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
[46] Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
[47] The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
[48] As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
[49] And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
[50] Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
[51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
[52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
[53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
[54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
[55] O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
[56] The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
[57] But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
[58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." First Corinthians 15:35-58
1:52 p.m. - 2023-12-15
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