(1Co 15:55) “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.”  “The strength of sin is the law”. This means the law spells out what is sin. Without it, our knowledge of what offends our holy God would be limited: (Rom_3:19) “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” 

(1Co 15:55) “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.”  “The sting of death is sin”. We sin because we are sinners. We sin because the curse of sin is upon us. Yes, we are still responsible because we know our actions of sin are against our God’s will. It is that act that condemns us before Him.

(1Co 15:54) “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.”  “Swallowed up”: Reminds me of when Moses before Pharaoh cast down the rod God turned into a serpent. Magicians did the same, but Moses’ rod “swallowed up” their rods. Gone. Past. They had their rods no more. Death will be gone for us…….forever!

(1Co 15:53) “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.”  The curse of death is the result of sin: “For all have sinned;” and “the soul that sinneth, it will die”.  Jesus  will  call forth the repentant soul washed by His blood to inhabit a resurrected victorious uncorrupted body!

(1Co 15:52) “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.”  In the time it takes us to blink, the saved will find themselves changed, on the move upward to meet the Lord in the air. One moment is all it will take. Please  Lord Jesus come soon!

WATER  (1Co 15:51)  “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,”   For the Lord to say anything is as if He made a vow to you. He cannot lie nor fail. He says nothing idly. So, every single Born Again person shall be changed, receiving that gloried heavenly body – Praise God! 

(1Co 15:51)  “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,”  Speaking to the spiritually made alive (all), the word “sleep” is being used. Why?  Because the physical body laid in the grave will be resurrected as well as changed. So, it is “as if” it were sleeping.

(1Co 15:50) “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”  These corruptible bodies of which we inhabit, are not worthy to occupy space in heaven. So often I hear Believers speak of what they think their thoughts and actions would be like in heaven. Most often they reflect the sin nature’s corruption. Thank God even that will be removed, left behind us!

 (1Co 15:49) “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” The statement is emphatic. We, the blood bought, gift of everlasting life endowed, spirit sealed Children of God will, one day, without doubt, be changed into “the image of the heavenly”! The God Who cannot lie has promised. The token of that promise is evidenced by the Spirit of God within  you!

(1Co 15:48) “As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”  In order to go to a heavenly place, one must be made heavenly. It is a spiritual place, for God is a Spirit (Jn 4:24). Therefore a time and place is required to be made spiritually alive (Jn 3). If you read the New Testament, you will find this occurring upon adults. In other words, old enough to know one’s sin crucified Jesus and repent.