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1 Corinthians 15:57
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Christ has come. He has suffered on Calvary. He has taken the punishment for us. He has allowed death to use its full force on him and to bind him, but he has then asserted his righteousness and holiness, and exerted his power and the bands of death were broken, not only for him but for all his people. Death could not hold him. ‘God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it’ (Acts 2:24). If we trust in him, we have the victory. ‘He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life’ (1 John 5:12).
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Death is such a cowardly thing. One old writer points out it is nothing like the death of Christ. The sting of death is a kind of cowardly death. You are infirm, you are sick, you are injured; and by stealth death launches its fatal sting. When Christ died, it was the most valiant death imaginable. The God-man, the Son of God who became truly man, voluntarily, consciously, he stood in the breach for us; allowed himself to be nailed to Calvary’s cross, and said to the Father, ‘Punish me instead of them’. What amazing, infinite courage; the most – can we use an old-fashioned word – noble death imaginable was the death of Christ. It is nothing like the death that death inflicts on billions of people – a cowardly act.
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